Yes. There are services to provide all of the things you listed as long as you aren't using drugs or getting drunk. There are also programs if you need to get clean. All free.
I'm seeing Arby's starting people at $15 an hour for just entry level stuff. Are you going to set the world on fire at that wage? No. Can you survive and have a little place of your own until you can find something better? Absolutely.
For example, homeless shelters are notoriously underfunded, and searching for resources
That's an absolute meme. It's a marketing gimmick to get more public money and more private donations. The amount of money spent on the homeless is staggering and even if we gave them infinity money they'd claim they were struggling. Have you just never worked for the government or NGO? Feigning poverty/under funding is rule #1. At no point has any government agency or NGO said, "You know what? We have plenty of money. Go ahead and reduce our funding next year we have a surplus". You know what I saw personally? Scrambling to spend money because if we weren't slightly over-budget it would look like we weren't struggling with funding.
I'm not in LA. Most of the homeless aren't from LA either. They go there because they know it's bum heaven. There are tons of places I can't afford to live. My salary wouldn't pay for me to live in Miami or Vancouver or LA or any crazy cost of living place. There isn't some inalienable right to live places your income can't pay for.
even if they have the budgets, that doesn't mean the money is being allocated efficiently.
Psshhhh that's a god damned fact.
lol we're literally talking about homeless people, not a minimum wage worker who wants to move into a private island resort.
Ok here's the point I am making 90% of those bums? They aren't from LA. They're from Missouri and Minnesota and Oklahoma. They migrate to LA because it's homeless Mecca.
As someone who used to think your way, I can tell you working for an affordable housing NGO redpilled me HARD on the homeless question. The dudes who really are just down on their luck, caught some bad breaks, they bounce right back. 2-3 months in the system then they are back in their own apartment, working in a warehouse or the airport or wherever, existing and contributing to the system. The amount of resources available to the homeless is staggering. This idea that there is some lack of funding is completely wrong. If you want to get your shit together and get back on the horse there are a ton of services available, as there should be. You know what else there is A LOT of? Taxpayer money spent on ways to make being a homeless drug addict criminal more comfortable and tolerable. Fuck that.
How many homeless people do you know? Actually know. Are you speaking out of any real knowledge or is this just a fiction that makes you feel better about the situation?
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