r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Garey_Coleman • 10d ago

Where are the homeless supposed to go?

Cities have been cracking down on homeless people so they can’t have encampments or stay on sidewalks. At the same time usually the shelters are full. So those who are unable to get into a shelter, where are they supposed to go?

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u/mortalmonger 9d ago

This is hard to answer as homeless is not a good description. There are lots of types of homelessness and until we can talk about homelessness that way it’s not something we can solve. Here is a good example:

-a homeless veteran fighting mental health issues -a mother and toddler son fleeing domestic violence -an LGBTQIA teen kicked out by his family for being xxxxx -a drug addict -a man who lost his apartment and living in his car while working -a bipoler woman refusing to take her meds and hallucinating and paranoid -a sex offender that has done his time and can’t find housing due to being a sex offender

Literally there is no “one place” all these people should go…

Homeless is the state you are in because of some other problem or choice….until we speak of homelessness by discussing the causes of homelessness and how we can prevent or mitigate those causes we are not solving anything. It would be like a doctor giving the same cure to everyone in a hospital and then being perplexed why the insulin didnt heal all the asthma and cancer patients…..

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u/someothernamenow 9d ago edited 8d ago

That's fine and all, but why then are we making ordinances forcing people out of the communities that they are establishing? Surely, we can come up with a better solution than treating them as if it were "last call" at a bar.

Because to me, it just looks like a power struggle between the ruling class and it's subjects, and the ruling class are demonstrating the callousness that it takes to be like them. Sort of makes you understand why homeless men go on killing rampages for what the newspapers describe as "no apparent motive."

Downvoting... Reddit's inability to grapple with its truth. It never gets old guys. We just wept over two kids murdered for praying in church, what other abomination can we fuel next?