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> Very few of those folks are there because they're ready and willing to work but just can't find a job. (Those who are, the transitional homeless, tend to find

> Very few of those folks are there because they're ready and willing to work but just can't find a job. (Those who are, the transitional homeless, tend to find one.) Most of the chronically homeless started off as transitionally homeless. The longer you're in that hole, the harder it is to climb out - and the greater the psychological toll, and the greater the temptation to turn to drugs/alcohol to numb the psychological and physical suffering resulting from being in that hole. > Ending world hunger would require massively decreasing living standards in the rich world. I very much doubt that. But fine, we can start by ending hunger in the "rich" world.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> Most of the chronically homeless started off as transitionally homeless Sure. Doesn't change the fact that someone "tak[ing] a field trip to [their] local river banks and highway underpasses" is going to see about 5x more transitionally homeless than chronically homeless [1]. > we can start by ending hunger in the "rich" world It's a good goal. And we're making progress on it [2]. Starving to death in the rich world is largely a thing of the past; consider the meaning of our shifting our measure of food insecurity from starvation to hunger. [1] https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/who-experiences-homelessness/chronically-homeless/ https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/who-expe... [2] https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2022/09/food-insecurity-and-food-assistance-programmes-across-oecd-countries_2e3fe549/42b4a7fa-en.pdf https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...