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I know it has existed, but a Columbia University study found COVID-19 could make it much worse and that seems to be playing out.
Another study found that an overwhelming majority of the economic problems related to the pandemic were caused by people's personal decisions to stay home, avoid crowds, etc., not by government mandated shutdowns.
I am sadly VERY aware of this. My brother has been part of the 33%. Hence, my offense to a comment about what a mentally I'll person "looks like."
And there were plenty of other things that I disagreed and disliked in the OP, but others here were addressing those issues very well.
To be fair, when discussing homelessness, there is more than one subtype. There are those that are struggling through rough patches and temporarily living in a car, motel, couch, etc, and those that are what one would traditionally picture, a "street person" or something of the sort, someone that cannot keep it together well enough to maintain their own domicile. The long term homeless person has a lot more visual cues as a result of living out of doors for extended time periods. And that long term homeless person is a lot more likely to deal with mental illness.
Homelessness is a hugely complex problem and finger pointing and the blame game contribute nothing to it's solution. There is too much political division now, obstruction, deadlock and it can't continue if there will ever be help for a population that desperately needs help and very much deserves the assistance. I always give because I figure it could happen to anyone of us. Some are homeless because of losing their homes due to catastrophic medical bankruptcy. When historians looks back they will be appalled at our treatment of the homeless, substance abusers and the mentally ill.
Homelessness is a hugely complex problem and finger pointing and the blame game contribute nothing to it's solution. There is too much political division now, obstruction, deadlock and it can't continue if there will ever be help for a population that desperately needs help and very much deserves the assistance. I always give because I figure it could happen to anyone of us. Some are homeless because of losing their homes due to catastrophic medical bankruptcy. When historians looks back they will be appalled at our treatment of the homeless, substance abusers and the mentally ill.
C-D is doing something strange. I tried to "rep" Shallow Hal and was not able to do so. "You must spread some reputation around before giving it to Shallow Hal again."
I never heard of Shallow Hal before reading this thread. I certainly didn't Rep him before. Puzzling.
Anyway, Shallow Hal, yours was a well-reasoned and well-written post. Thank you.
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