Are all homeless people really drug addicts and lazy?

[Anonymous]

I live in a middle economic country. And when I talked about this to some americans, they said: don't believe in the Media and news, all homeless people in the US are lazy drug addicts and mentally ill people.

But why there are almost no homeless people in my country which has 100 million population.

[doopayo]

https://youtu.be/cdkvvafeMzk

You should watch this video, it’s a short documentary type film that talks about the homelessness in the US from the perspective of actual homeless people.


I don’t believe that homeless people are “lazy”. 107,000 military veterans are homeless. Many people do not realize that without a home it’s literally practically impossible to get hired for a job in the US since you have no home address, it’s easy to develop mental health problems and hard to fix them since you can’t afford to. Not only that but you’ve gotta deal with the fact that america treats the homeless like less than human.

[Asker]

The America is son of a bitch. I already watched that video. What kind of fucking government wouldn't save their veterans who fought for their country?

[Miristheiss]

I would guess most of them are.
Homeless by choice or a substance addiction.
If someone wants to work and to have an apartment or house and they are sober and of sound mind and want to work the vast majority will not be homeless. If they are it would be a very short time. They'd even live in their cars for a few weeks until they got a place to live.

[Anonymous]

a lot of people Dump their mentally ill family members out on the street.


a lot of people are junkies was have a huge problem with illegal drugs and young people and getting hooked and frying their brains.

[Wise4myage]

I think a lot of them are, but their are many who need help. And the right kind of help is not coming from politicians.

[OddBeMe]

I don't know. I would imagine working at McDonald’s would gain you more per hour than panhandling.

[readyplayer001]

a lot are actually veterans