Posted on 12/28/2019 5:28:31 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Common life events that can cause homelessness
You’ve heard it before: the root cause of homelessness is the lack of affordable housing.
That’s still true. However, anyone can become homeless. Setting aside the structural factors and systemic failures, here are the most common individual causes of homelessness.
Because this is a more personal look at the subject, I’ve included examples of someone who became homeless in these various ways.
Eviction or Foreclosure
Unsurprisingly, losing your home can result in homelessness. It did for William when he lost his Detroit home to foreclosure in 2007 while undergoing treatment for colon cancer. It’s a huge change, and with the limited notice you’re sometimes given, it’s incredibly difficult to scrape together enough money for a security deposit along with first and last month’s rent. Rosalind is one such person who was evicted from her apartment and subsequently became homeless. That was four years ago now.
With housing prices rising across the country, many find themselves suddenly priced out of an apartment they’ve rented for years. Without the extra funds when prices increase by 50, 100, or even 200 percent, people must prepare for eviction.
Even worse, you may not even be given the option of paying ridiculously inflated rent. Your landlord may just decide to kick you out in order to sell the property for a hefty price. Or, he may turn your unit into a more lucrative, short-term vacation rental. This increase in malicious evictions is what led the UK government to ban no-fault evictions, though many individuals and families who became homeless as a result of these evictions in previous years are still without housing.
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Very much the view I tske.
Workers need more pay for their work to have secure lives.
The Left phonies will cry “minimum wage!” the smart, like Trump, will say “no illegals and less off-shoring”.
I figure the transfer of women from home to aspitalists is irreversible.
Linemen make more than wiremen on average because they are working outdoors, often on overtime in bad weather.
Unless you are a wizard level master electrician, then you tell them what they are going to pay you for fixing the problems they caused themselves by not listening to you the first time.
Husband’s bff was one of those, he had lots of stories about dumb ass managers talking down to him, that had no idea how much corporate was paying him to restore services.
People who are nice usually have someone to turn to... a parent, sister, brother, co-worker, friend... most of the 'homeless' burned their bridges with their support networks when they 'married' the state for food stamps, disability, food banks, shelters, and non-profits trying to keep their numbers up.
Then there's the mentally ill that liberals wanted to set free... and their lives are hell... the drug addicted and the alcoholics round out the bottom...
Normal people who 'lost their home' are the smallest percentage. But they're the people the corrupt press writes about because 'the lie' supports liberal insanity on the issue.
Thanks.
My crack-addicted cousin’s father was a “below average” employee.
My point here is not that the “above average” suffer, but that those with less ability do.
Half the world is below average of course. That’s a lot of people.
It is at least double that.
Mexico's 2019 population is around 127 million, and there are, realistically, 45 million of them here illegally.
I took a job and went to the DC area for 3.5 years back in 2010. It was the first time I’d ever been in the area, and to be honest, I’d never worked in my life in a metropolitan city. So DC became this shock to me over the homeless situation.
I would generally divide the homeless along four lines:
1. Paranoid Schizophrenic types, who ought to be in a permanent facility, with a fence and security gate.
2. Dopers. This went along two paths....those who are currently on drugs, and those who used cocaine/crack in the 1990s and burned out a bunch of brain cells. Just offering rehab doesn’t really resolve much because the bulk of them will return to the same friends, and same need for daily drug doses.
3. Marginally skilled people who are on the borderline of surviving. If they’d concentrated in their youth on certificates and job-training...they’d have something to fall back upon. They failed miserably, and never got real attention by the ‘system’ to get them a craft.
4. Finally, the debt ‘hole’. People who found success in life and were marginally surviving with $40k a year in salary...because the bulk of this went to debt. Once they lost their job, the life fell apart and they could not out-run the debt issues.
I do agree that roughly 50-percent of the homeless population ought to be permanently quartered in a long-term facility and we just give up on them as ever being potential parts of our society. Just admitting that, and having the judges to sign the paperwork is the big issue.
Haven’t lost any yet. I heard from one that looked around and couldn’t find anything as nice for the price. A lot of places have hidden charges. The only thing our residents pay beside rent is electric and internet and a pet fee if they have a pet. Complex up the street just gave out $300.00 increases and they are our main competition our increases are 60-80 dollars.
I agree.
Intelligent summary.
But if they and their families had more wealth from working, then their families could keep them off the streets.
That’s the base IMO.
Give workers less, count on the government instead, =trouble.
I have too and as an apt manager some of the stories are heartbreaking. I truly do have a heart even if some of the people I rent to don’t believe it. I owe my allergenic to the investors of the property though. You don’t pay, you don’t stay. Yes it’s sad but that’s the way it has to be or after a few months you won’t be able to pay the bills. We don’t have many evictions thankfully.
That isn’t true for the entire country. There are still plenty of boarding houses.
The word homeless is a cultural Marxist construct. In the past, these people were always referred to as bums, Hobo’s, and crazy Street people.
If you are a Conservative, stop calling them homeless, because you are playing right into liberals hands.
30 years ago, when they were still referred to as bums, they would say “can you spare a dollar”. Now they say “please help the homeless”. They even carry signs that say help the homeless. The Left has given them dignity. You see, they are victims of the evils of capitalism. They wear their homelessness as a badge of honor. And every time ordinary people use the word homeless, they’re helping their cause.
The Left uses language to control us. If we want to make America great again, we have to start calling a bum a bum again!
I was in Cambridge, MA today, one of the top four bluest cities in one of the bluest states.
I walked by a guy sitting on the sidewalk with a sign asking for money to buy food.
He was smoking a cigarette.
I am not anti-smoking. Not in the least. But if you have enough money to buy damned cigarettes, you sure as hell have enough money to buy food.
It made me angry. The gall. A pack of cigarettes costs $11 dollars here.
When I was young, sleeping outside even in the snow was comfortable but I had the right clothes. I see people with a t-shirt sleeping on a bus bench in the cold fall weather and that isn’t possible without drugs
[Most people if broke and unemployed could find a friend or family member to let them crash on the couch.]
[The government also removes the cheapest and easiest housing solutions by declaring them “sub standard”.
It was not that long ago that ten or fifteen people might live together in a old multi bedroom house. The owner charged a small rent for a semi-private room and the borders got two meals a day included.
The government shut down these boarding houses by passing ordinances that no more then four people not related by blood or marriage could live together in the same house.
So renting out rooms when things got tight became illegal and not only the would be borders no longer had any place to live but without the income the owners were forced to sell. ]
[Once they lost their job, the life fell apart and they could not out-run the debt issues.]
My sister decided to stop working one day. She managed to get SSI and moved into a friends house and pays $300 a month rent. Squanders the rest, some $400+ on cigarettes and alcohol for herself and food for wild animals. She has not bought any new clothes in years.
If not for her friend and myself she would be on the street.
I can’t access the rest of the article. Is a lack of housing really the reason for homeless people living on the street?
Based on my observations, for decades, most of the homeless living on the street have issues with mental illness or addiction, although a very small percentage just wanted to drop out of society.
But does anyone really have no other option than living on the street?
Really just asking a question here. Many people live paycheck to paycheck. Even when they make the right choices, they can end up losing everything. All it takes is a serious illness and/or a job loss. I’m teetering on the edge myself.
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