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>Andre said he has struggled with homelessness on and off since he was 14. You overlooked this part. > The problem is the money is going to the wrong people.
by krnlpnc 5y ago
>Andre said he has struggled with homelessness on and off since he was 14.
You overlooked this part.
> The problem is the money is going to the wrong people. There are a lot of good and honest people that are homeless and/or struggling to pay their rent. Andre isn't one of them. Andre gets his housing for free while other people freeze and are basically forced to kill themselves. Why is that?
Because American society judges a persons value based on their ability to "work."
Not everyone is capable of working a 9-5. Some people have physical illness, mental illness, disabilities or addictions.
The social and medical support structures in the united states are clearly not adequate, nor successful in helping the vast majority of these people.
Other first world countries don't have these problems. Why is that?
- anaccountexists 5y agoIf you have a permanent disability, there’s definitely government programs to support you indefinitely- I have several relatives on those programs (one for muscular dystrophy, one for autism) and they haven’t worked for a long time. There’s more challenges around the short term disabilities, but pretty much every US state has a low-income / zero-income healthcare program that helps cover those individuals. And as for overall homeless numbers, the US is pretty much middle of the pack per-capita with a lot of European countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_...