Are homeless shelters the answer to the homelessness?
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overeasy240
ANSWERS: 12
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No, but just because they won't solve homelessness doesn't mean they aren't useful.
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Not the answer but a temporary solution.
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THe homeless issue is complex in some ways, but not difficult to solve if there was any will to do so. The first thing to do is to figure out why people are homeless. Being a San Francisco native, I've seen all kinds. The ones who are mentally ill need help, and often with medication some could be productive citizens. The drug addicts need help as well, but real rehabiliation and not some quick fix program. The people who are homeless with children need assistance, not just food stamps and welfare, but job training and childcare. The last group, the able bodied but lazy need to stop getting so much aid and be forced back into the workforce either with job training assistance or by eventually weening them off of any aid. Real change can be made, but the state and others need to step up and do it.
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I cannot say yes when I witness homeless people sleeping on the streets when I know the local shelter has space for them. The only answer to homelessness is to redefine what having a home should be based on - one's basic need for shelter rather than the size of one's monetary resources. But there is no way on earth that people are going to voluntarily remove the monetary value from Real Estate...
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not the answer..nope, but we certainly need more of them.
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It's part of the answer but the shelters does help.
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I'd say looking for a job is the answer to homelessness!
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When I was homeless we ate out of dumpsters just about every day. The one time I got food poisoning was from the food a shelter gave us. And most of them are dirty, with everybody right together, so lice is a worry. I always preferred a nice squat to any shelter.
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It's just a bandaid
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I've heard homeless people complain shelters have the smell of stinky feet, therefore...shelters are Not the answer to homeless people. Why choose to live in the stench of other people's smelly feet when you can make your own stench?
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the answer is more affordable cheap housing instead of knocking them all down...maybe one solution to get this started is a poor tax to be levied at the many many millionaires and all the greedy corporations and banks who make obscene profits year after year and who soooo generously donate jack shit to anyone ... and to answer your question no the shelters are not the answer but its the only thing thats out there
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I stayed in a homeless shelter last year and it was very unsafe. Staff did not watch kids. Kids ran around with knives. bigger kids pushed smaller kids down the stairs. We had 1 women that would come in the middle of the night and cut people's hair when they were asleep. Money and clothes were stolen, while you were out of your room, people would go in and go thru your things and just take what they wanted. There were 8 people sleeping in a room and women would come in all hours of the night turning on the light, kids screaming, talking on the cell at 2 am. they left dirty diapers all over the room for days at a time. MY shelter had a waiting list of over 500 people waiting to come in. Before one checked out, another was checked in but it was very unsafe.. and I know now why some people feel safer on the streets
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