Posted on 02/10/2019 12:24:11 PM PST by hapnHal
For women in particular, domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness. And the top causes of homelessness among families are: (1) lack of affordable housing, (2) unemployment, (3) poverty, and (4) low wages, in that order. And guess what states have the highest homeless? Hawaii and New York, have a higher per capita homeless rate than California's. Finally, records show California, indeed, has the highest total homeless population at over 150,000, far more than second place New York. Will the invading caravans from south of the border help relieve the homeless situation especially in California? And don't forget Los Angeles has declared it's now a sanctuary city.
Not having a home.
Duh.
For some people, you could be correct. I remember an article, broadcast as a narrative on radio, back in my youth, about a man who lived homeless in NYC. He had a degree (MA in Domestic Economics), and he would work when he needed money (”...two hours of pushing broom, buys an 8 by 12, 2-bit room...”), but he preferred the lack of responsibility and the free time that unemployment gave him. He dressed well, in second hand clothes from Goodwill or the Salvation Army, kept himself clean, sober and drug-free. In inclement weather, he stayed in the public libraries, the subway and railway stations (he always kept a ticket on his person, so he could claim to be waiting for a train), riding the trains to the end of the line and back, or in a few small bars and diners where he was known and tolerated. I doubt he could pull it off today. The two-bit rooming houses are gone, erased by government regulation. The streets are more dangerous. The odd jobs for cash are gone too, or else competed for by illegal aliens. And it would be just as bad for the transient day laborer, the hobo, the bum, outside the big cities. No more “King of the Road”; no more “Freddy the Freeloader.” Too many crazies, druggies, ferals.
IMHO.. Im going to step right in it with some people but, welfare payments are the leading cause of homelessness. You take away welfare and you take away section 8 housing and first time homeless people wont quit their jobs, look for drugs and alcohol knowing they will be going hungry and living on the street if they keep screwing up thier lives. And get the mental cases off the street. let churches take care of the rest..
1/3 substance abuse, 1/3 mental, and 1/3 criminals avoiding the law. Some data I can believe..
For some people, you could be correct. I remember an article, broadcast as a narrative on radio, back in my youth, about a man who lived homeless in NYC. He had a degree (MA in Domestic Economics), and he would work when he needed money (”...two hours of pushing broom, buys an 8 by 12, 2-bit room...”), but he preferred the lack of responsibility and the free time that unemployment gave him. He dressed well, in second hand clothes from Goodwill or the Salvation Army, kept himself clean, sober and drug-free. In inclement weather, he stayed in the public libraries, the subway and railway stations (he always kept a ticket on his person, so he could claim to be waiting for a train), riding the trains to the end of the line and back, or in a few small bars and diners where he was known and tolerated. I doubt he could pull it off today.
It wouldn't be this essay, would it?
https://harpers.org/archive/1956/03/subways-are-for-sleeping/
Doesn’t it go back even further to a breakdown of the family? A breakdown of teaching morals to kids? Families used to take care of their own, grandparents and kids. When taxes are high more families need both parents working. Yes kids can run away, get on drugs, want to live on the streets. And there is mental illness but where are their families and why have these people separated from them? Why would so many rather live on the streets?
Rent control and other government restrictions.
Mental illness.
Yes. The Government's "War on the Family" has borne some rotten fruit.
Oh man that takes me back to the glory days of Rush.
He managed to be hip, funny and mightily on point back then.
How time-—and the Left-—has taken its toll on him and our great Republic.
Remember Clarence leaving his message on Rush’s phone: “I take da job!”
lol
“It wouldn’t be this essay, would it?
‘Subways are for Sleeping’, Harpers Magazine, March, 1956.”
Might be. As I said, I heard it on the radio. And it seems to me that the subject of the article was deliberately and voluntarily unemployed and homeless. Part of the radio show was an interview with the individual, and a dramatization of one of the incidents he observed at a construction site, but these could have been fictionalized, and the voices provided by actors. But there are several parallels, and quotes which sound very similar. Remember, I heard this program about 60 years ago!
When they do these studies, they should interview the homeless person’s family. The homeless person will nearly always blame someone else. I don’t believe these studies.
Great song! Never heard the frogman before.
It’s been fifty years. When do you think the progs are going to have this epiphany?
Of course there were always homeless crazies, but so few. I’d never seen people literally camping on sidewalks like they are now. In my 20s I’d see one homeless scruffy guy looking through a dumpster, but I never saw anyone freely living and camping on the street.
Now you see whole tent cities right in the city. In the bushes beside the freeways. And everyone I know has been encountered by a violent crazy person at some point recently. They clearly have greater rights than well behaved taxpayers.
(1) lack of affordable housing
(2) unemployment
(3) poverty
(4) low wages
and
(5) indigent support services
Build it and they will come...
The massive influx of both legal and illegal immigration.
There used to be cheap hotels in the older parts of north Orange County cities. That kept some down and out people from ending up on the streets. Redevelopment tore down those hotels. Gov’t creating an new problem while ‘solving’ another.
And when the drug culture was getting started in the late 60s early ‘70s it was a youth thing. ‘Boomers, mostly. So while alcoholics were fairly common, burnt out drug users weren’t. Today maybe a third of the homeless are substance abusers. Maybe we are seeing the fruits of the drug culture, something that hadn’t yet matured as we were growing up.
Wouldn't there be an overwhelming number of Liberals, then?
Heck...maybe there are!!
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