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.
‘ There is usually something wrong with them, usually drug or alcohol although sometimes it is a mental problem as well.’
I’ve heard stories from homeless drug addicts that really made me think of the problem differently.
Some of the stories re horrifying. Sexual abuse, physical abuse, parents who killed their spouse, drug addicted or mentally ill parents, and we sit and judge.
Would I want them in my home? Hell no.
But most of the time it isn’t a damn choice.