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Bus tickets are unhelpful because it further uproots their lives. People (including homeless people) have support networks, communities, etc that get destroyed
by drewrv 4y ago
Bus tickets are unhelpful because it further uproots their lives. People (including homeless people) have support networks, communities, etc that get destroyed by being forcibly relocated.
They’re human and like all people they build a life over time, they have neighbors and friends and possibly family nearby that love and support them.
There are also annoying logistical challenges to moving that are harder if you’re homeless. Finding a new doctor is hard, harder still if you’re restricted to free or reduced cost clinics. Finding a food bank or getting a PO Box or a church or a job.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoIf you look at greyhound popular destinations (SF, LA, Seattle), busing is already very popular, into those cities. It isn’t really a thing society does, rather Texan prisons will give releases inmates open bus tickets if they have no one picking them up, and they go to cities where they’ll survive. I took a greyhound as a kid from Vicksburg to Seattle (along the southern then northern route, over 4 days), and got to witness this first hand. Anyways, you just don’t survive being homeless in Great Falls Montana, so either you are dead or you first wind up in Spokane, then eventually in Seattle.
- vba616 4y ago>Bus tickets are unhelpful I see where "bus tickets" sounded like "sending people on an odyssey to a huge metropolis a thousand miles away" but I wasn't thinking of that so specifically. Five miles can make a drastic difference in the cost of housing.