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Does anyone know if there has ever been a study done on homeless people in the city and how they came to be homeless? I am not talking about the drug addicts, but everyone else.
I saw an 80 year old women yesterday, clearly homeless, trying to keep warm with newspapers. She seemed insane. Was she insane b/f she became homeless and that's why? Or did being homeless make her insane. She has to be someone's mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, cousin, etc.... Is her whole family homeless too do you think?
Also, what organization would you call to help her?
There are many organisations that might help, but the problem is bigger than the number of organisations prepared to provide housing and/or supportive services.
Here is the parent group for the homeless where you can get quite a bit of information:
The vast majority of homeless people are junkies and/or insane.
This is America. Those who are homeless because of economic circumstances can get back on their feet through the support of churches, volunteer social programs, government programs, welfare, subsidized housing, and family members.
I was reading a good book about the homeless people living beneath New York. They call them 'The mole people' it's creepy. so I guess a lot of people did some kind of research.
A lot of the people who are homeless in NYC and anywhere else are homeless because they either have mental health issues that prevent them from getting out of that situation or they just get so used to it that they stop caring about getting off the street.
Thanks for that book recommendation. I haven't read it but it has come up a few times with good marks.
I did work with the homeless population, indirectly, for many years, and we sure did lots of research. Some of it is at the site I shared, but frankly, the research and the support for programs are at great variance--plenty of research, very few dollars.
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Originally Posted by KRaZy
I was reading a good book about the homeless people living beneath New York. They call them 'The mole people' it's creepy. so I guess a lot of people did some kind of research.
Does anyone know if there has ever been a study done on homeless people in the city and how they came to be homeless? I am not talking about the drug addicts, but everyone else.
I saw an 80 year old women yesterday, clearly homeless, trying to keep warm with newspapers. She seemed insane. Was she insane b/f she became homeless and that's why? Or did being homeless make her insane. She has to be someone's mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, cousin, etc.... Is her whole family homeless too do you think?
Also, what organization would you call to help her?
Fifty years ago, when the city was safer, the people living on our streets would have been confined in a residential asylum with guys in white coats to look after them. Then at some point some bright person decided that was cruel. And he said, "let them live on the street. That's much better."
I believe the release of the mentally ill, some of whom became homeless, was in the early 70s.
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Originally Posted by Sean34597
Fifty years ago, when the city was safer, the people living on our streets would have been confined in a residential asylum with guys in white coats to look after them. Then at some point some bright person decided that was cruel. And he said, "let them live on the street. That's much better."
The vast majority of homeless people are junkies and/or insane.
This is America. Those who are homeless because of economic circumstances can get back on their feet through the support of churches, volunteer social programs, government programs, welfare, subsidized housing, and family members.
Well, calling people "junkies and/or insane" makes it easy to dismiss them and diminish their humanity.
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so I guess a lot of people did some kind of research.
