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/freddbare]

More homogeneous culture as well.

[u/def-jam → u/freddbare]

And what in the good sweet grace of fuck, does that have to do with anything?

[u/xenith811 → u/def-jam]

A lot, if you know how to think critically.

More likely to eat similar food, similar activities, sports, issues.

[u/def-jam → u/xenith811]

And what does that have to do with helping the homeless find homes?

[u/xenith811 → u/def-jam]

Finding jobs, communities, even the workers they’re assigned.

I just said it man, use critical thinking

[u/MamaEOC → u/xenith811]

Dude, even if someone gives you a home and assigns you a job stocking shelves in a socialist paradise, you will end up screaming at the voices in your head if you are experincing psychosis and addicted to an opiate.  And you wont be able to keep your job in any meaningful way and your neighbours will drive you out or you may burn your home down or let the place fall apart (think of drug addiction in rural areas: you can have farmland and a small home but if your brain is a mess, you arent going to keep it going alone for long and can be starving).

Are you all in another universe? 

[u/xenith811 → u/MamaEOC]

I think the cultural issues we reference are too large scale for you to understand.

I mean, we don’t even really disagree. You’re just missing like half of it.

[u/def-jam → u/xenith811]

So let me get this right, you can’t help homeless people if they like cricket instead of the NFL, tamales over bland roast beef, have gendered nouns in their language or a different non-Christian belief system?

THOSE are the things that prevent you from helping someone have a place to live? For giving someone a hand when they are down on their luck? When they are too ill to maintain a job to pay rent?

And you want me to engage in critical thinking? GTFOH

[u/xenith811 → u/def-jam]

Can you think a little more, Christ lol, you’re seriously just not thinking and it’s a huge issue 😂

They may not know how any of our systems work. Every group of people has different needs / wants, also different political beliefs. They have no families / friends to rely on in times of trouble. What if they don’t even speak the fucking language 😂

I’m not an asshole, my friends entire career revolves around fixing this

Seems like you’d rather get angry than actually think about the problems they face. Very useful

So simple now? See, we need to think. You’re fucked

[u/def-jam → u/xenith811]

So you think all the homeless are illiterate ESL foreigners without families or friends?

What are the different needs/wants or political beliefs that would stop someone from accessing housing?

This is very interesting because I’ve actually worked with housing difficult to house people and organizations.

The vast majority of the unhoused have suffered significant childhood or early adult trauma. Add another layer is the number of unhoused that have had significant experience in the foster care system. Those are the unhoused.

I’m not angry at the unhoused. I’m gobsmacked by your lack of empathy and outright stupidity.

Give them a place to stay. Build it with public money. Give them a fucking chance. The majority will go on to house themselves and be ‘productive’ members of society. Some will be chronically difficult to house. True.

But should we not help 85 children do well in school is the other 15 are catastrophically stupid? Of course not. Same with housing.

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[u/MamaEOC → u/xenith811]

Homelessness is caused by: mental illness, addictions, poverty and lack of family supports/extra private sources of support.  In what world does cultural or even individual similarity ger rid of these underlying triggers/causes of homelessness?