The Homeless Industrial Complex - why things don't improve for the homeless problem

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by folkguitarist555

Its about putting illegal aliens before American citizens. Especially in regard to housing. American citizens sometimes have to wait up tp ten years on housing lists while illegal alien families and refugees get low income housing right away.

And there again is the State ruining the free market.

Abolish all zoning and housing laws. Let private property owners, rightful owners, shape the way areas function through voluntary association.

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by PilgrimsProgress

I love this new term Homeless Industrial Complex, don't you?

Homelessness is an $11 Billion a year industry.

People profit off of it.

Walk by the Homeless Coalition for Greater Cincinnati office and you see BMWs, Audis, Lexus, Mercedes and a Cadillac SUV parked out front.

Those people aren't starving, they're getting rich off the homeless.

You spend $90,000+ per homeless person per year according to the National Homeless Alliance.

There are certain realities that people are either too damn dumb to understand or too blind to see or refuse to admit.

The vast majority of homeless are mentally ill who refuse to take the medication that would allow them to function normally and hold a job and maintain a household.

What are we to do?

You can't force them to take their medication, because Liberals have gone to court and blocked that.

So, again, I ask, what are we to do?

The rest of the homeless are substance abusers. They've let alcohol or drugs, or both, ruin their lives.

You cannot force them into treatment, because Liberals have tied our hands there. You can force them into treatment if and only if they are arrested and convicted of a drug or alcohol-related offense, and the judge so orders it.

So, we have to wait until someone is killed or injured, or there is property loss or damage to get them into a treatment program.

As far as so-called homeless veterans, the VA operates multiple domiciliaries in every State, where the veteran can stay up to a year for treatment.

But, if they don't want to go, you can't force them.

When someone comes up with a real solution, let us know.

[jghorton]

Based on 30+-years experience with the homeless (missions, halfway houses, prisons, etc), it seems to me most of the homeless fit into one of four categories (percentages are notional):

1) Chronic Homeless - 40% - Those who perpetually make poor decisions (often addiction/crime-related); Includes mentally/emotionally/socially dysfunctional individuals.
2) Lazy and drifters - 35% - Often poorly educated with little/no interest in education or regular employment. Many would rather panhandle when necessary, move/travel when desired and assume no responsibility for living as productive members of society.
3) Circumstantially trapped - 10-15% - Those who try to regularly work, but, due to layoffs, eviction and/or other issues (ie; immigration), find themselves living in cars and on the streets.
4) Short-term homeless - 10-15% - Between jobs, homes, relationships, etc.. Rarely on the streets for more than 45-60-days - or in a homeless situation more than once every 5-7-years.

There is a great deal of 'financial enabling' that goes on under the auspices of what one might call the 'homeless industrial complex' -- most of which burns through government grants and funding at a per-capita rate that is higher than the middle income salaries of most Americans.

[ELOrocks17]

Originally Posted by Scrat335

I totally agree with this. There's a reason our problems aren't being solved and that reason is the thousands of people with paychecks will disappear when the problem is solved. What was the number? 400 million plus that has been thrown at this problem and nothing has changed?

Politicians and bureaucratic parasites enriching themselves off of the misery of others. There's not many things I can think of more disgusting. Maybe the Nazis and the Fascists of Ukraine today.

Just look at Maxine Waters crime ridden, poverty filled district. Lots of crime and homeless. What is she doing about it? Here is a quote

" Listen, I’m going to work every day until I get him (Trump) impeached.”

oh, and then there is this:

It has also come to light that Maxine Waters paid her daughter, Karen Waters, $750,000 out of taxpayer funds to mail campaign flyers. While she falsely accuses Republicans of trying to become rich on the backs of poverty-stricken blacks, it turns out that it is Maxine, and her family members, who are actually becoming rich on the backs of American taxpayers.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...roubled-waters