Differing to the one of the best founders, Ben Jammin' franklin!
1 There are plenty of walmarts that are going to be empty soon. Convert them into living accommodations.
2 In our city every time a grocery store shuts down, the local school system swoops in and coverts it to an administration annex. These might be possibilities
3 Let them help build their own residences on property that is suitably acquired and zoned , like Habitat for Humanity does.
How do you help those who won’t help themselves. Some are just content with their situation
True story.
They should all blog on Canada Free Press and earn money for hookers and crack.
yes and no.
I tried to help a woman who was sleeping (for years) on the cold streets of a dangerous big American city. Long story made short, I managed to arrange a brand-new private apartment for her in a new building, with (to the extent she wished to take advantage of it) ongoing social service assistances of various types through a respected local church charity good outfit, but again she could use or not use them as much or little as she liked). The apartment then would have rented for about $2,000 a month (closer to $5,000 nowadays), and it was completely private for her, no sharing of the space required. Result? She did not want to walk 3 blocks to even look at it. A couple years later, the daughter of city mayor was ‘appointed’ the official ‘homeless relief person’... and .... daughter picked on just this street woman....this very one...as her example of the type of folks daughter planned to find housing for, and remove from the streets. The city police were instructed to get the homeless people moved into free housing, too...
Result? Its about 15 years on .... and the homeless lady is still sleeping on the street. Her choice.
In short, the problem is far more complicated than any lack of help (public or private)
Obama is president. There are no homeless.
Three jumping the gun there is not a Republican President yet.
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
There are many reasons for homelessness. One reason being that many are dysfunctional. no initiative, no direction.
We should have something like the conservation corps were people of any age and ability are able to join to get food and shelter in exchange for service to their community.
We used to have plenty of jobs for people to pick up litter, but now we have those littering laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM
“The Chronically Homeless Americans”
Yes, with “Chronically” being the key word. In other words, lazy, good-for-nothing gibmedats who live on the gov’t, ( us, ) dole from the-cradle-to-the-grave.
Statements like this are symptomatic of the Homelessness Industry. We aren't civilized unless we constantly spend more and more and more on the homeless. There is no "right" amount. The answer is always "more more more." And if you don't spend "more," you aren't civilized.
I do a Hell of a lot of work with the homeless on a weekly basis. The reality is that many of the current crop of homeless will never be helped unless you re-open both state mental institutions and involuntarily commit a large number of the homeless population to them, and also debtors' prisons to force the lazy to work and earn their keep.
Many of the chronically homeless should have shelter in mental hospitals, whether due to mental illness or addictions so bad they cannot function in society without care.
Differing to the one of the best founders, Ben Jammin' franklin!
I have a close friend (45 years), he is 57, his Son works for me, anyway because of his laziness he is going to be Homeless real soon, Always worked under the table his whole life, half time at best and has nothing. not even Social Security, and he knows it. Instead of doing something about it, he just Drinks All day and waits for the inevitable.
The idea is to make a "Bum-Trix" kinda like the matrix.
Kind of a fully immersive Virtual Reality moderated by A.I. system. Basically you hook them up to it, it provides their bodies with all the needs, oxygen, food, waste extraction, periodic muscular excersize, chemically dealing with substance addiction, etc...
It also loads them into a simulation where they can either get training or is ran by an adaptive A.I. that would slowly coax them and condition them to accept responsibility for their own lives. Think carrot on a stick. Since the "Therapist" would be an A.I. type system it would be eternally patient with them.
Granted this same VR type tech could be used to eliminate colleges for custom designed education programs that could be stripped of all their liberal indoctrination BS as well.
But it would have to be completely voluntary because such systems would be ripe for abuse by the seeming coming totalitarian state...
I’ve put a considerable amount of time and money into working with the homeless and my conclusion is that most homeless people do not want to become responsible enough to not be homeless. There are a considerable amount of mentally ill too that need asylums.
Before anyone goes on about what WE should do about the homeless in America, they need to put in some trench time. (not the Hollywood celeb soup kitchen on Thanksgiving for the TV cameras crap either) That would put and end to a lot of the preening from the left about how wonderful they are with their compassion and all.
It hasn't been talked about for 7 years.
My lovely mother, who used to make a living in HHS (a rabid conservative handing out Gov’t welfare? Proof that unicorns do exist.....) said that all, or nearly all, of her homeless clients were homeless by choice.
San Francisco counted 6,436 homeless in 2014. They spent $165,700,000 on the homeless. That is $25,746 per homeless person.
I concluded long ago that we spend too much already on the homeless. We spend too much on the allegedly hungry folks. The funds are there, they squandered through corruption and waste.
I’m tired of being ripped off as a taxpayer for liberal feel good projects that deliver zero results.