Do these people realize how incredibly organized and disciplined one has to be to live in this tiny house and not turn it into a garbage dump within days? Individuals with that degree of psychological health don’t end up homeless. They end up living in mansions.
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True. These well-meaning fools have no clue.
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“well-meaning fools”
I don’t think they’re well-meaning at all…. I think they’re clout chasing and realize at some level that their policies hurt rather than help the homeless and that’s why they do it. For one thing, the PMCs need a reservoir of hardcore addicts to ensure a cheap supply of their recreational drugs of choice.
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Where’s the bathroom?
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Thanks for setting me straight on that.
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Well, if you define homelessness as “sleeping outdoors”.
This illustrates the problem with calling it “homelessness” instead of vagrancy.
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I accept your main point, but saying that “Individuals with that degree of psychological health don’t end up homeless” is lamentably ignorant.
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“saying that “Individuals with that degree of psychological health don’t end up homeless” is lamentably ignorant.”
It’s true that anyone can unexpectedly encounter a series of catastrophic events that leaves them on the streets… but only a subset of those stay on the streets long term. The more psychologically healthy are more likely to be able to access help and improve their situation (and won’t need a portable coffin).
Living on the streets long term is almost always a secondary effect of addiction and/or mental illness and it’s all but impossible to get such off the street without coercive measures.
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Most street people whom I have met as i did volunteer work for the homeless, they like and want to remain as they are. In California the street people get paid by the Government to never get a job and remain in their status quo.
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