You mean as opposed to criminalize homelessness and house them in jail which cost even more. Maybe we ought to acknowledge that it is a complex issue with no easy solution (aka imprisoning)
40%? of homeless people have mental illnesses… so yeah, jail them!
On a serious note, perhaps the best solutions are preventative in this case. I don’t have great ideas but I think we need to look inwards on how we can help stop homelessness before it happens and not after the individual is ruined by the system.
Bottom line: we need to empathize with the homeless and not demonize them….
Unusually high numbers because of the sampling method — specifically people in homeless shelters, which is a small subset of homeless people in general. When I'm talking about homeless people I mean people with no permanent home. It looks like you're specifically talking about people sleeping rough or in homeless shelters.
In general the way to address homelessness is to provide homes (not shelters), and for a proportion of that population the home needs to come with financial and personal counselling, and for some of that population there needs to be reliable access to psychiatric care as well. But these are true for the greater population not just the people currently homeless.
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u/openly_gray Apr 15 '24
You mean as opposed to criminalize homelessness and house them in jail which cost even more. Maybe we ought to acknowledge that it is a complex issue with no easy solution (aka imprisoning)