I think the media likes to pretend that most of the homeless have just had “bad luck”. They have simply “fallen on hard times”. I think that would be a very small percentage of the homeless.
Most homeless are mentally ill and/or substance abusers. They deserve help, but they should not be around normal people. There should be institutions for them. Not really nice institutions, just places where they can be kept apart from society.
There used to be psychiatric hospitals but those closed down thanks to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. The situation today is far worse than any abuse that happened back then.
>> Most homeless are mentally ill and/or substance abusers.
Wonder how many are mentally ill BECAUSE they’re substance abusers. Many, perhaps most of them, is my guess.
The people who think they homeless are just down on their luck have never dealt with the homeless. I try to stay as far away as possible as I’ve seen them go from docile to full attack mode in the blink of an eye.
Denver let the homeless take over parking lots, parks,sidewalks, hotels. The smart people moved out when every hotel became a shelter.Be very careful where you buy, real estate agents arent going to tell you what the city planners are doing.
They don’t deserve help. Helping them brings their insanity into civilized society. It’s like saying a serial killer “needs help”. Nope.
The homeless, the insane. the criminals, the addicts and the shiftless need to be excluded from society proper. They do not belong. Don’t harm them and don’t help them.
And when they attack, terminate the threat swiftly and permanently.
There is a difference between the homeless and the chronically homeless.
Most of homeless numbers you hear about are made up of people who have fallen on hard times and they quickly get back on their feet. Some small amount of help and they are no longer homeless.
The chronically homeless are another thing entirely.
There is usually something wrong with them, usually drug or alcohol although sometimes it is a mental problem as well.
Putting them some place where they can be cared for will not totally get rid of the homeless problem because there always has been the homeless by choice and the homeless because they are hiding for some reason. But it will reduce the problem to a manageable level.