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I wish public transit served homeless people as well as a lot of folks like to imagine it does. A lot of homeless aren't "transients." They aren't just passing
by DoreenMichele 2y ago
I wish public transit served homeless people as well as a lot of folks like to imagine it does.
A lot of homeless aren't "transients." They aren't just passing through.
If we had excellent public transit to make it easier for homeless people to travel at will, maybe they would be. And maybe their lives would be overall better and they would get less open hatred for being poor and unhoused in a world making it increasingly challenging to get housing for far too many people.
- mplewis 2y ago80% of homelessness in the USA is transitional, i.e. someone lost a job or had an injury and needs time to get back on their feet.
- DoreenMichele 2y agoTransient: a person who is staying or working in a place for only a short time. I don't think most people mean someone is only temporarily homeless when they call them transients.
- createaccount99 2y agoIn the same spirit, I never really associate the meaning of "transient" as "someone passing through," rather it's just a word for "homeless person" for me.