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| Topic | Is it defensible to have more empty houses than homeless people? |
| manmouse 06/30/19 2:10:39 PM #12: | Absolutely not. You want the homeless to get a job? Its been shown again and again that being homeless makes people exponentially harder to employ (no shower, no wardrobe, terrible sleep, no clock or place to charge a cellphone to even tell the time or stay in touch with their employers), and that homeless housing initiatives actually have OVERWHELMINGLY successful rates of integrating the homeless into the workforce. A home is essential, theres no justification to say someone doesnt deserve a home. @BobanMarjanovic posted... Yes, get a job I seriously hate when people say, oh just get a job! to the homeless. If you were interviewing people, and out of all the applicants one of them was covered in dirt, smelled like rot, had wild tangled hair, looked like they hadnt slept in days, was perhaps late to the interview because they had no way to tell the time, had clothes that were crusted over in years of sweat and grime... would you hire them? Im guessing no, because the basic facts of life while someone is homeless mean that they can rarely truly conform to the standards necessary to be integrated into the workforce and life in general. They cant simply walk into a job interview like anyone else can, and get a job and sustain a job long term while not having a home. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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