Make a distinction between the functioning and nonfunctional homeless.
To the functioning homeless offer them an easy path to employment, give them jobs rather than expecting them to try and get jobs for themselves (as most places WILL NOT hire them even if they present themselves perfectly, immigration has helped kill their chances perhaps worst of all).
We've had this done before, when the US government went out and purposefully contracted the homeless and desperate to go work on infrastructure projects and the like.
Make getting jobs easy for those on the bottom, and you'll see them elevate themselves.
As for the nonfunctional, the addicts, the crazy, the stupid, the old and crippled, and so on. These are a completely different animal to be transmuted into the functional from their current state if it is at all possible, and then you can hand them a job they could do to enrich themselves.
Homelessness says nothing about someone except that they currently lack a place to stay, or options to house themselves without getting involved in charities or government services.
Ya get me? It's a symptom of other causes, it's not the disease itself. The solution to solving homelessness is to stop trying to solve homelessness and instead focus on the life circumstances that led them to lacking housing.
AntiPostmodernist 0 points 4 days ago
My solution is better:
Make a distinction between the functioning and nonfunctional homeless.
To the functioning homeless offer them an easy path to employment, give them jobs rather than expecting them to try and get jobs for themselves (as most places WILL NOT hire them even if they present themselves perfectly, immigration has helped kill their chances perhaps worst of all).
We've had this done before, when the US government went out and purposefully contracted the homeless and desperate to go work on infrastructure projects and the like.
Make getting jobs easy for those on the bottom, and you'll see them elevate themselves.
As for the nonfunctional, the addicts, the crazy, the stupid, the old and crippled, and so on. These are a completely different animal to be transmuted into the functional from their current state if it is at all possible, and then you can hand them a job they could do to enrich themselves.
Homelessness says nothing about someone except that they currently lack a place to stay, or options to house themselves without getting involved in charities or government services.
Ya get me? It's a symptom of other causes, it's not the disease itself. The solution to solving homelessness is to stop trying to solve homelessness and instead focus on the life circumstances that led them to lacking housing.