What would you do to fix homeless problem?

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ChrisMaster69 · Accepted Answer

I am with @agape93 on this one. The population is too high for the limited resources. Each country needs to take responsibility for its population density. It’s brutal but if you live in a country with limited resources, don’t have 5 kids, if it’s mortality rates, then improve things to reduce them. Where people are living is just crazy, normally going back 10,000 years there would be natural migration as where you lived sucked, these days it’s call war and means invading some place or leave as an illegal refugee and become a problem elsewhere. There is zero low cost suitable housing available period, it’s just not there, that needs sorted. The next big problem you have is mental health issues among the population as a whole. I've spent a lot of time with homeless people and trying to rehome them. The big problem is you eventually get them a flat and they damage it, even set fire to it in one case or invite others around to drink, do drugs etc. This means even with a load of suitable low cost accommodation, you just move the problem around as you put a lot of people with mental health issues, addictions etc in and around each other. Deal with mental health issues first, stop people becoming homeless in the first place. Until you fix the mental health side of things you won’t do anything. It’s no good giving John a house or flat to live in if John has major PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Personality Disorder etc.  Sort the real problems and support them and at same time remove them from risk areas such as living on the streets etc. There is no single magic bullet short of making half the population extinct.

Citizenkirk · Accepted Answer

There are different reasons for homeless conditions too exist, but a more flexible economy would be a good place to start. People who say you can have communism or capitalism, but not both, are filthy, lying, pieces of shit, with no honor or morality. Don't bother responding with I've been in the military and I fought for our freedom and all that blah blah because I've been in the military too and put my life on the line for assholes who lie and deceive people with that Fighting for freedom b******* really pissed me off. You can have something that serves communist, capitalist, and other economic needs without being just one or the other and people who say otherwise are filthy pieces of shit. I have nothing but contempt for these people and all the lives that have been lost because of the rhetoric of these kinds of people and they're filthy lies. Homelessness can be addressed and reduced by a more flexible economic system, but I don't know if it can be completely eliminated.

AmandaYVR · Accepted Answer

The problem begins with not using condoms. Too many people are being born into this world to reckless parents who don't have the means to support them and the dedication and commitment to raise them.

There's a zillion other problems farther down the line, such as high cost of living, shrinking middle class, machine automation creating fewer jobs for humans, poor work-life balance leading stress and burnout, inadequate medical and mental health help, etc etc.

But too many people having reckless, unprotected sex. It begins there. So give everyone free birth control. That's step one.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

You have to look at the problem on a local level. If you take parts of southern england as an example house and rent prices are so high even professional people are forced to house share. Many are simply financially incapable of homing themselves even if the they're working. Cornwall on the other hand attracts people because of its warm climate, usually the type who can find pot faster than a job. Shropshire attracts homeless because it's lucrative for begging off tourists.
Local councils need to identify the reasons for homelessness in their area.

Oigit · Answer

It's never going to be fully fixed. Because you can only help people that are willing to help themselves. It isn't something that people want to accept, but it does not change that it is the truth. I have a aunt that has a serious issue with meth, booze and other drugs. She would much live on the streets and feed her addictions, then get help getting clean and getting a roof over her head. Also like many addicts the moment someone tried to help her, she started taking advantage of them in a effort to feed her habits.

FreyaRed · Answer

Most homeless people in my country are homeless by choice. They get warm meal, bet to sleep, possibility to shower and make laundry in facilities for homeless people. The only one rule to use those faculties they have to be sober, but they don't want.
You can't help people who want kill themselves with alcohol of drugs

Dargil · Answer

Create County Farms like they did in the Depression. Make vagrancy illegal again, round up the homeless, dispatch them to mental health facilities or to the County Farms where they do farm work or some form of industry. It IS a form of imprisonment but not punishment.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

Many will label this a "socialist " idea... But: if 'home' property remains just an investment item - but otherwise remains unused - there could be an obligation to the owner (s) to make it accessible to those who are in need.
In my own 'street' we have a couple of such houses; they more or less deteriorate. It hurts no one to provide these as some kind of shelter; even if it's only for a limited time.

awkward_author · Answer

I think fixing social security issues might help. For example, there's many people on unemployment who should be on disability. If there's only a certain number of available spots for unemployment, those can go to employable individuals who need it. The mental health system where I live should be better as well for homeless folks with mental health problems. Workshops that assist people with resumes, for example, might be helpful as well.

DaveJord · Answer

Round them up and provide some type of dormitory living for them, and put them work doing something productive for the community and us the savings from that paying contractors out of tax dollars to cover the cost.

jimmy2 · Answer

Take abaddon building. Get them bedding first, food ans warm environment. Get churches involved to meet their Spiritual needs. Companies involved to give then a trade to work. Get housings involved for a home of their own. You keep a job you get iff booze and drugs. You get in church. We give you a home

Agape93 · Answer

Reduce the human population to a 3rd of its current size. Plenty of houses will be available as well as plenty of cheaper resources and well-paying jobs.

Sparks32 · Answer

I would stop Immigration and foreign aid. Start looking after our own first instead of only looking after everyone that hates us first.

OddBeMe · Answer

I’m not sure we know the real issue. Is it mental illness? Why are vets a high % of homeless?

It’s starting to sound like homelessness is a medical issue. Then having socialized medicine would be the best fix.

notwoke · Answer

stop driving the cost of everything up so high with taxes and regulations or pretty soon everyone will be homeless. Take away the incentives to be homeless so people are more likely to go to work. Make the homeless work for food

jahaims · Answer

Have social programs to help with drug addiction and mental health. Austin, Texas recently took some good steps towards that, that could be potentially modeled.

joeldalton · Answer

I would make it illegal to be homeless and camp on the street. If you want to be in my town, you have to be drug and alcohol free, and you’ll be given housing, job training and mental health.

GlassTop · Answer

Remove everyone in office, the mayor, district attorney, governor as a start. Change can’t happen under the same management. These people have failed.

Recurrence · Answer

I’d fund the Army Core of Engineers with help from psychologists to buy up abandoned malls and things like that and convert them into sustainable living spaces and small marketplaces

exitseven · Answer

Stop all the give away programs and they will go someplace else.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

If I was a billionaire, I'd start giving them the money to buy a house.

DWornock · Answer

Move one or more million to far North Alaska and let them survive if they can. Most will die but out of sight, out of mind.

BobbyC65 · Answer

By not dealing with it I don't care about the homeless.

noohair · Answer

Some is providing mental health treatment. Retraining. Some folks do not want to leave the streets. Find out why.

fireforeffect · Answer

First. Every Veteran should have a home. We have a lot of closed down military bases that have empty quarters. They should be rehabilitated and made available for every homeless Veteran.

SuperSpaceMan007 · Answer

Hostel, work for someone to stay there without having unwanted sex.

Anonymous · Answer

House them with everyone who says, "We need to do more to help the homeless". Problem solved.

abc3643 · Answer

Get them homes. See how that works?

BungusHighFivePizza · Answer

send dem to homeless island

jshm2 · Answer

What homeless problem?

Waldoe · Answer

Ban alcohol...

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