Where are the homeless supposed to go?

[u/Garey_Coleman]

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?

[u/mortalmonger]

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…..

[u/Able-Swing-6415 → u/mortalmonger]

It's actually pretty easy. If you're homeless because you can't afford a home? We should give you a home. If you're homeless because you can't function in society? We should give you a home with mental care. If you're homeless because you like the lifestyle fuck you. (Probably 1 in 1000 people)

There is just zero reason to have homeless people in the city. Even with all the mental facilities and housing costs it would be a tiny fraction of gdp to solve this problem ethically forever.

The real problem aren't the homeless but the greedy corporations that won't let you build enough housing because it would lower the ROI of their real estate so they lobby against it.

The problem is easy, the solution is not. Because powerful people don't want it to be solved.

[u/Stunning_Scheme_6418 → u/Able-Swing-6415]

And added to that is the stigma. Everyone looks down on them as being lazy criminal drug fiends who don't deserve safety or warmth. I pay for my house why should you get it free crap too. Well Joe if you also want to go live in a tiny subsidized house with paper thin walls go ahead. Like as if low income housing is a mansion on the hill or something. It's better than under the bridge but nothing for a stable person to envy.

[u/Stunning_Scheme_6418 → u/Stunning_Scheme_6418]

And the wait for that housing always has a wait-list. So you sleep where you can for several months before you get it.