If you live in a shelter, don't they make you abide by some rules, such as, for instance....YOU DON'T GO OUT AND GET RIPROARING DRUNK????
Obviously this one doesn't care, plus I wonder who took care of her baby while she was out partying.
I was thinking the same thing. The homeless shelter here in Green Bay forbids members from going out to the bars. And they must be actively looking for a place to stay.
Sadly, if they enforced those rules they wouldn't get people to come to the shelters. The bottom line is there are two kinds of homeless people:
1. People who choose to be homeless. Some of them are choosing to remain addicted to drugs or alcohol rather than directly choosing homelessness, but it is really the same thing in the end.
2. People who are mentally ill and should be in treatment instead of a shelter, but have been betrayed by our "compassionate" society that lets the ACLU types decide mental health issues.
Of course, if you did enforce those rules a whole lot of the folks in group one would decide to get rehabbed/start working, and that might cost some social workers their jobs.
I'm not dsure exactly how many people use my city's homelss shelter, but my city of 26,000 has three people who are chronically homeless. All three are mentally unstable, two profoundly so. The other one could probably hold down a job, but prefers to be homeless. He even goes to Mass every Sunday.