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So whats your solution to both 1) homelessness and 2) many homeless (not all) that menace pedestrians and businesses on a daily basis?

by ugh123 4y ago

FollowingTheDao 4y ago
> So whats your solution to both 1) homelessness Houses. > many homeless (not all) that menace pedestrians and businesses on a daily basis? Houses. You see, the answer is simple but there is just no will to do it because people do not care about the mentally ill. We scare people for no reason but their own ignorance. I would say 90% of the mentally ill would have a great remission of their symptoms if they had stable housing. I am homeless, all I need is a simple fcking studio but even making a lot of money from disability I cannot afford one anymore and I get shut down by people who do not want to rent to me because I am on diability.
- tiahura 4y ago
  Maybe it’s a dumb question, but why don’t you find 2 or 3 other people in your same situation and pool resources as roommates? 4 disability checks might be enough to allow you to afford a better home and landlord?
  - rmah 4y ago
    This may sound flippant but... Poor people who are not mentally ill often do exactly that. Even some drug addicts can sometimes get together to rent a place to crash. But we're talking about the severely mentally ill here. They are unable to band together. I imagine that this is sort of by definition... those who's mental illness illness is mild enough that they can help themselves by working together... just do it. The remaining are on the streets.
    - dionidium 4y ago
      But now we're full circle, because you're describing somebody who needs a lot more than just a government-provided house.
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- carewell 4y ago
  In sorry about the situation you are in. Can we agree that different people have different urgent needs? I agree with you that you need a house. A mentally unstable person who can’t take care of themselves needs mental help. A person with hard drug addiction destroying them needs physical and mental help. Not all problems can be solved with free housing, just like not all problems can be solved with involuntary hospitalization.
- RHSeeger 4y ago
  > You see, the answer is simple but there is just no will to do it because people do not care about the mentally ill. That is unfair, as it implying that throwing houses at the problem will magically fix it. Houses would help, for some (many) cases, but it's a lot more complicated than that. Nor is it simple to supply those houses, and lack of doing so isn't just "not caring". It's hard. It's really hard.
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  Isn't disability a protected class for renting?

So whats your solution to both 1) homelessness and 2) many homeless (not all) that menace pedestrians and businesses on a daily basis?

by ugh123 4y ago

So whats your solution to both 1) homelessness and 2) many homeless (not all) that menace pedestrians and businesses on a daily basis?

FollowingTheDao 4y ago

> So whats your solution to both 1) homelessness Houses. > many homeless (not all) that menace pedestrians and businesses on a daily basis? Houses. You see, the answer is simple but there is just no will to do it because people do not care about the mentally ill. We scare people for no reason but their own ignorance. I would say 90% of the mentally ill would have a great remission of their symptoms if they had stable housing. I am homeless, all I need is a simple fcking studio but even making a lot of money from disability I cannot afford one anymore and I get shut down by people who do not want to rent to me because I am on diability.

tiahura 4y ago
Maybe it’s a dumb question, but why don’t you find 2 or 3 other people in your same situation and pool resources as roommates? 4 disability checks might be enough to allow you to afford a better home and landlord?
- rmah 4y ago
  This may sound flippant but... Poor people who are not mentally ill often do exactly that. Even some drug addicts can sometimes get together to rent a place to crash. But we're talking about the severely mentally ill here. They are unable to band together. I imagine that this is sort of by definition... those who's mental illness illness is mild enough that they can help themselves by working together... just do it. The remaining are on the streets.
  - dionidium 4y ago
    But now we're full circle, because you're describing somebody who needs a lot more than just a government-provided house.
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carewell 4y ago
In sorry about the situation you are in. Can we agree that different people have different urgent needs? I agree with you that you need a house. A mentally unstable person who can’t take care of themselves needs mental help. A person with hard drug addiction destroying them needs physical and mental help. Not all problems can be solved with free housing, just like not all problems can be solved with involuntary hospitalization.
RHSeeger 4y ago
> You see, the answer is simple but there is just no will to do it because people do not care about the mentally ill. That is unfair, as it implying that throwing houses at the problem will magically fix it. Houses would help, for some (many) cases, but it's a lot more complicated than that. Nor is it simple to supply those houses, and lack of doing so isn't just "not caring". It's hard. It's really hard.
unethical_ban 4y ago
Isn't disability a protected class for renting?