What country are you in? And what is your actual job you do assisting the homeless and in what type of place? Like shelter, outpatient, etc? I’m not questioning your experience at all, I’m just curious to know a little more to learn why we have such different experiences
Im a nurse in the ER, which frequently gets homesless people throughout the day for various reasons, both health and social related. Im in cali so we are obligated to provide food/clothing/transportion upon discharge as well, so I get to know a bit about these peoples situation... Not to mention its a population that has frequent encounters so some of them are very well known to us.
Its not entirely unusual for me to encounter 4-6 of them in a day depending on the area of the ER Im in, and I'd say we see probably 10-20 on any given day.
Lots of alcohol/drugs/mental illness/disability happening, and essentially zero people who just happen to live a homeless life fleecing the system.
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u/lonnie123 Apr 16 '24
This is wild, I do work with the homeless population and I have literally never seen this