“There might be a better way to deal with the homeless.”
They’re not “homeless’> I used to intern at Union Gospel Mission for my thesis paper my final years at Stanford. “Tent guys” have an ATM card, which is the most valuable possession they have, and the tent is the last thing they care about.
Most of the homeless are, in combination to one degree or another, mentally ill, addicted to drugs or alcohol, or in thrall to the communal laziness, irresponsibility, and chaos of street life. I have a cousin in southern California who is all of those things and who routinely abandons for weeks and months at a time a nice and secure apartment that her family pays for her to have.
Too true. They are:
Mentally Afflicted Drug Addicted Street Dwellers
(MADASD - pronounced “mad and sad”)