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I used to know a lot of people who for example had houses in another cities and were coming to tourist towns in season pretending to be homeless. They were maki

by elcct 11y ago

I used to know a lot of people who for example had houses in another cities and were coming to tourist towns in season pretending to be homeless. They were making enough money to just sit on the couch off season. Also there is plenty of ways those people can stop being homeless if they don't want to. And you appear as someone who would like to force that change on them.

dalke 11y ago
Rather than annoy unqualified people with your insistent questions, you could do a spot of research, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta... . This would give you some of the reason why people are homeless, including demographic statistics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States#Statistics_and_demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta... / You ask about the problems of homelessness. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States#Effects_of_homelessness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta... points out, one of the problems is with homeless children. > homeless students are 1) 1.5 times more likely to perform below grade level in reading; 2) 1.5 times more likely to perform below grade level in spelling; and 3) 2.5 times more likely to perform below grade level in math. The demographics at that Wikipedia page say that '1.37 million (or 39%) of the total homeless population are children under the age of 18.'. The report at http://www.huduser.gov/Publications/pdf/ahar.pdf http://www.huduser.gov/Publications/pdf/ahar.pdf goes on to say: > Children under age 6 are disproportionately represented within both the sheltered homeless population and the poverty population. About 11 percent of all sheltered homeless people are under age 6, as are 12.7 percent of poor people, while only 8 percent of the total U.S. population is in this age group So, tell me again about all these 5 year olds you know with houses in another city? The Wikipedia page says: > Teenagers who flee or are thrown out by parents who disapprove of their child's sexual orientation or gender identity. A 2010 study by the Center for American Progress shows that a disproportionately high number of homeless youth (between 20–40%) identify as LGBTQ Tell me how many of these thrown-out LGBTQ teens have a house in another city, in any meaningful sense? It's clear from many, many new reports on the topic that a lot of people who are homeless both want a home and can't get it. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article31964259.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/a... reports : > But with shelters clogged with waiting lists, a large number of families end up living in cheap hotels and motels while they await an opening in a shelter. The January count showed 1,400 homeless adults and children housed in hotels and motels. You haven't done any research, you are ill-informed on the topic, and you ask insistent question - all signs of someone JAQing off.
norea-armozel 11y ago
Your sample is biased. When the US govt and other agencies look at homelessness the causes are not often self-inflicted. For example, homelessness in LA is mostly due to the fact that jobs that could pay for someone to live there are relatively scarce (basically, cost of living is nuts in larger cities like LA, Chicago, NY, and etc). Add to the fact that state governments rarely if ever properly fund housing assistance in the US this makes it much worse in areas where even the cost of living is relatively low (like in rural parts of the US). So that's how we got so many homeless. It's not because of some lifestyle choice, it's simple economics and oddly one that can be solved with a minimum of fuss.

by elcct 11y ago

dalke 11y ago

Rather than annoy unqualified people with your insistent questions, you could do a spot of research, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta... . This would give you some of the reason why people are homeless, including demographic statistics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States#Statistics_and_demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta... / You ask about the problems of homelessness. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States#Effects_of_homelessness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta... points out, one of the problems is with homeless children. > homeless students are 1) 1.5 times more likely to perform below grade level in reading; 2) 1.5 times more likely to perform below grade level in spelling; and 3) 2.5 times more likely to perform below grade level in math. The demographics at that Wikipedia page say that '1.37 million (or 39%) of the total homeless population are children under the age of 18.'. The report at http://www.huduser.gov/Publications/pdf/ahar.pdf http://www.huduser.gov/Publications/pdf/ahar.pdf goes on to say: > Children under age 6 are disproportionately represented within both the sheltered homeless population and the poverty population. About 11 percent of all sheltered homeless people are under age 6, as are 12.7 percent of poor people, while only 8 percent of the total U.S. population is in this age group So, tell me again about all these 5 year olds you know with houses in another city? The Wikipedia page says: > Teenagers who flee or are thrown out by parents who disapprove of their child's sexual orientation or gender identity. A 2010 study by the Center for American Progress shows that a disproportionately high number of homeless youth (between 20–40%) identify as LGBTQ Tell me how many of these thrown-out LGBTQ teens have a house in another city, in any meaningful sense? It's clear from many, many new reports on the topic that a lot of people who are homeless both want a home and can't get it. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article31964259.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/a... reports : > But with shelters clogged with waiting lists, a large number of families end up living in cheap hotels and motels while they await an opening in a shelter. The January count showed 1,400 homeless adults and children housed in hotels and motels. You haven't done any research, you are ill-informed on the topic, and you ask insistent question - all signs of someone JAQing off.

norea-armozel 11y ago

Your sample is biased. When the US govt and other agencies look at homelessness the causes are not often self-inflicted. For example, homelessness in LA is mostly due to the fact that jobs that could pay for someone to live there are relatively scarce (basically, cost of living is nuts in larger cities like LA, Chicago, NY, and etc). Add to the fact that state governments rarely if ever properly fund housing assistance in the US this makes it much worse in areas where even the cost of living is relatively low (like in rural parts of the US). So that's how we got so many homeless. It's not because of some lifestyle choice, it's simple economics and oddly one that can be solved with a minimum of fuss.