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_"Homelessness increases under de Blasio administration, residents protest new shelters in their neighborhoods"_
"The city has seen a 6% increase in homelessness since the mayor took office in January."
"34 states had decrease in overall homelessness, while 17 states saw increases. 40 states had decreases in the number of people living in unsheltered locations, including the street, cars, and abandoned buildings."
"The national rate of homelessness fell to 18.3 homeless people per 10,000 people in the general population, but the rate in individual states ranged from 120 in Washington, D.C. to 7 in Mississippi."
I once heard someone make that argument. Do you think there's any truth to that?
If someone was truly a bad person, they would've found a way to avoid homelessness...by mooching off people, stealing, engaging in illegal occupations such as drug selling, scamming people, or using less common shady strategies to stay above water.
I think to say they are or aren't is an idiotic over simplification either way. People can be homeless for a variety of different reasons and there's going to be varying levels of 'danger' for each person. As a whole, I wouldn't say homeless people are much more threatening than any other demographic you can think up. I suppose you're more likely to be mugged by a homeless person than an executive banker, but you'll still find the homeless man takes far less than the latter.
The part cut out by the moderator in my previous post tells you it was the Carter administration that did it to give them dignity and self determination and less restrictive settings but that self determination is typically a choice of soup kitchens and the less restrictive setting is a cardboard box.
I once heard someone make that argument. Do you think there's any truth to that?
If someone was truly a bad person, they would've found a way to avoid homelessness...by mooching off people, stealing, engaging in illegal occupations such as drug selling, scamming people, or using less common shady strategies to stay above water.
A lot of the homeless are those with mental illness. I especially saw it in San Francisco homeless.
The ones in my small home city are probably more people down on their luck/addicts, so it's a mixture of multiple things.
They're not necessarily criminals, though I'm sure many resort to criminal activities/dishonest behavior for survival.
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