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Actually, you would be surprised. In New York City, there are thousands of "street homeless", despite there being tens of thousands of bed available in shelter
by koheripbal 7y ago
Actually, you would be surprised.
In New York City, there are thousands of "street homeless", despite there being tens of thousands of bed available in shelters.
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- cosmodisk 7y agoMost Western countries could eliminate homelessness in one day if it was just about the beds in shelters. People opt for a straet instead of a shelter mainly because: it may not be safe there ( drugs, alcohol, aggressive behaviour) or they are on the other side of the spectrum, such as drug addicts, mentally ill and etc. Usually a holistic approach is needed.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoYeah if it was just about having enough beds somewhere then we wouldn't have issues. But there is a lot of mental health, addiction, and trauma -- often feeding off each other, e.g. people with metal health issues turn to drugs to self medicate -- and that requires more than just a place to keep them. In a lot of cases it's more about harm reduction (to themselves, and to the local community) then getting them fixed in a home. Cuz you're not going to rehab some of these people. The tiny handful of people who are homeless because "they don't like the rules, man" are statistically irrelevant.