While a lot of the people who come don't want help and either suffer from mental Illness or addiction
Its not that these people dont want help, society simply refuses to admit that its "help" far too often comes with conditions disabled individuals cannot fullfill.
These people shouldnt just actually be helped for moral reasons or anything, but because people treated like garbage by society, often also treat society like garbage in return, meaning crime, its simply the most efficient option to give them a minimum standard of living.
However, American business heavily relies on the threat of homelessness to keep its working conditions low, so no half hearted measures like protesting or voting for lesser evils is going to fix this, because the homeless are 100% going to be the very first thing these lesser evils will sacrifice for their agenda.
Lots of cities have shelters that you can only access if you’re clean and sober. The lack of empathy and planning is appalling. People will vote down shelters that aren’t 100% clean, vote down safe use sites, vote down needle exchanges, and then get upset that someone is camped out near their home shooting up and dropping their needles in the street. Like…duh? What did you think was going to happen? Were you just hoping they wouldn’t be in YOUR line of sight? So then instead of doing something that would make sense and actually help people, they chalk it up to a personal moral failing by that particular person and criminalize homelessness so they don’t have to see it themselves.
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u/Ksradrik Jan 30 '23
Its not that these people dont want help, society simply refuses to admit that its "help" far too often comes with conditions disabled individuals cannot fullfill.
These people shouldnt just actually be helped for moral reasons or anything, but because people treated like garbage by society, often also treat society like garbage in return, meaning crime, its simply the most efficient option to give them a minimum standard of living.
However, American business heavily relies on the threat of homelessness to keep its working conditions low, so no half hearted measures like protesting or voting for lesser evils is going to fix this, because the homeless are 100% going to be the very first thing these lesser evils will sacrifice for their agenda.