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Also, over half of them have drug addictions, mental illness, or both.
Possibly true.
Like the nice hotels they've been housed in for free, they'll completely trash the inside. That's how they operate. That's what happens to the downtown area of the small city I live in. Even with daily clean up crews there's trash and articles of clothing strewn about, lots of half eaten food containers laying around, and excrement and vomit. Us poor working class don't like looking at it either.
I'm sure most of society would rather see these people well off living a nice life than being out on the sidewalks. But I've watched interviews of homeless people and heard what social workers have had to say, and a lot of them are resistent to a better way of life because that would require meeting certain standards and giving up certain things and taking responsibility. Proverbs speaks pretty harshly against those sorts of people. There's a difference between someone who's destitute though no fault of their own and those who put themselves on the road of destruction.
You make some very good points. I've always thought that part of the problems is the label "homeless". It lumps a very diverse group of people together under a single banner. People are living on the street for a variety of reasons, so any single solution is domed for failure. Perhaps some sort of triage that attempts to find the actual cause, would be beneficial. Possible groups or combinations could include in no particular order.
Correct, and for the bullet point list you provided... I think we as a society need to come to grips with the fact that "good for society" and "preserve their personal dignity" is a zero sum game especially with regards to the mental illness and drug addiction aspects.
Right, so the way to solve the problem must be to treat them all the same and evict them. But nobody has noticed the dark humor in the President's order to "evict the homeless."
