Current Events > Do you believe homelessness is a problem

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I had a chat with a coworker today and she was like "it's a terrible thing all those homeless people and it's just getting worse." and more or less I asked her if she did anything to help or had any ideas and said no. lol
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Homelessness is what happens when you decriminalize substance abuse
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It is inexcusable for a country this wealthy to have this many homeless people


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Most are either mentally ill, drug addicts, or have a criminal history so no with the exception of the former who should be put in mental institutes.
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A lot of the homeless have some severe mental illnesses that never really get treated in any meaningful fashion, they're going to need a lot more than well meaning volunteers and some pity money thrown their way.

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You can think homelessness is a problem and still answer #3. You don't have to care about homeless people to think homelessness is an issue.

Yes, but it's not my problem.

1. I was homeless. For 3 years.

2. Chronic homelessness is a problem. 89,000 or so in the US as of 2018.

3. Its more likely that people end up on drugs as a result of being homeless than the other way around.

The biggest issue with being homelessness is boredom; guess what can kill a lot of time? Substance abuse.

4. Current efforts to address homelessness do a piss poor job at addressing chronic homelessness, as that has a large psychological factor playing into it that isnt solved by material solutions like shelter or food.

In fact, many who are chronically homeless will reject those material solutions even if its to their own detriment. Hence why I rode out the last two hurricanes prior to Dorian in my truck despite shelters being plentiful in my area, and why some homeless may well tell you to fuck off if you try to help them.

5. Current literature suggests the best way to address chronic homelessness is akin to the foster system in terms of whats required. For the chronically homeless, most of which are also psychologically homeless (as opposed to being just houseless), there is a severe lack of inclusion that pushes individuals away from the support they would need to recover, and thats if that support is even there in the first place.

This is where the stereotype of the homeless veteran comes from, as PTSD can easily trigger psychological homelessness. PTSD was, in part, why I ended up homeless.

6. I do jack shit because, as noted above, most current efforts are garbage and would be a waste of my time and money.
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Ask a homeless person if it's a problem
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Are there still homeless people? Yes? Then it's a problem. I don't donate time or money to help fix it because I honestly don't know the best way to help.

There isn't enough food to eat. Hasa Diga Eebowai!
And people are starving in the street. Hasa Diga Eebowai!

Homelessness is only a problem if you live somewhere that it gets too cold or too hot.
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The biggest problem with homelessness isn't in and of itself, theres plenty of ways to live comfortably in that situation

I did it for 2 years

The biggest problem is the lack of programs or other such means to aid in ones ability to get back on their feet. Theres a cycle to homelessness that's very hard to break away from.

Losing any one of the 3 staples of modern living can quickly snowball into losing the others if youre not careful, and losing one makes it magnitudes more difficult to maintain those thatre left


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It ain't so bad.

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