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What do you do for people who refuse to go to a shelter for any number of reasons and just want to continue doing what they’ve been doing for years now? Not tr
by lobotryas 7y ago
What do you do for people who refuse to go to a shelter for any number of reasons and just want to continue doing what they’ve been doing for years now?
Not trying to put you on the spot with a “if you don’t have a solution...” trope, it’s just something I’ve always wondered.
- masklinn 7y ago> What do you do for people who refuse to go to a shelter for any number of reasons and just want to continue doing what they’ve been doing for years now? How about you start with the part where there aren't enough shelter spaces right now? Once you get to have only people who don't want to stay outside shelters, you can start asking them why they don't shelter. NYC has ~95% sheltering rates, Bay Area is at 33%, GP literally quoted that in their comment. Bay Area homeless folks are not so different than NYC's that they'd magically be 3 times less likely to get into a shelter. Hell, you click the link, you know that Chicago's at 74% sheltering, Denver's 84 and DC's 85. Meanwhile LA's sitting pretty at a good looking 25% sheltering rate.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI've never stayed in a shelter but I know people that have. A lot of homeless will sleep in a makeshift shelter in the winter rather than a shelter because shelters are ass in every way.