Where do homeless people come from? Why are there always homeless people everywhere(especially at my local Wawa)?

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>>510438024 (OP)
Drug dealers cause homelessness

>>510438024 (OP)
The US defunded mental asylums in the 80s-90s. Almost all medication for extreme mental illness is several hundred dollars for a single month's supply without insurance. So you had millions of people across the US who can't treat themselves. Add to this the millions of people who choose to be homeless, which is the bulk of all homeless people who are not mentally ill. Zero homeless people you see on the street more than once are people down on their luck. They are either there by choice(often drug addicts), or they are mentally ill.

>>510438024 (OP)
Drug addiction. Take a normal person and watch what happens as he gets into pills or some other kind of substance that enslaves their pharmacology. Also some non drug induced mental illnesses like PTSD can lead this route

>>510438907
This is hilariously untrue, especially nowadays. It is very time-consuming and difficult to get back into a situation where you're supporting yourself after hitting rock bottom.

>>510438024 (OP)
American elites quite literally ruined millions of people’s lives (especially those with with addictive personalities) with cheap opioids drugs and turned them into zombies who can’t hold down a job or take care of themselves so they get kicked into the street and beg/steal for drug money

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>>510438907
I heard most homeless youth just aged out of the foster care system, what should be done to help them? Is is society's responsibility to help them?

>>510439259
The average person who is homeless for economic reasons is housed in a time frame of 1 month to a year. Almost all is within 1-3 months, but people who have no family or friends increase the average significantly. There are two places where this isn't true in the US: Los Angeles and NYC. The narrative that homeless people are people who are down on their luck is complete bullshit. Almost all of those people recover from that situation rather quickly. The majority of the homeless population are the mentally ill, those who choose to be homeless, and severe drug addicts.

>>510439259
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567477160/how-the-loss-of-u-s-psychiatric-hospitals-led-to-a-mental-health-crisis

>>510439778
It is 100% socieites responsibility to help those people, and we can do a lot for specifically homeless youth. Job training, financial literacy programs, temporary housing that isn't filled with crazy people, etc. That is an easier problem to fix.

>>510438907
>>510439259
not true. america is basically a different country in the cities vs rural areas. the cities are brutal to live in. if you lose your home in a city you are done unless you have family you can move in with. american life in the cities is ultra hard mode and you can become trapped. add kids and it's a wrap.

inb4 just get a job. try getting a job with nowhere to sleep. try getting a job with nowhere to shower. try holding a job without 5+ full well cleaned and groomed outfits and a smile to go to work with. try getting a job without a cell phone.

>>510439827
I'm just speaking about the vast majority of the homeless people I talk to in the small city (~50K) I live in. It seems like the average is at least 2 years of struggle to go from sleeping rough to being able to afford your own place, with all kinds of intentional, malicious hurdles put in your path along the way.

>>510439778
Join the military! Fight and die for our best ally, sweet goy!

>>510440183
>inb4 just get a job. try getting a job with nowhere to sleep. try getting a job with nowhere to shower. try holding a job without 5+ full well cleaned and groomed outfits and a smile to go to work with. try getting a job without a cell phone.

Exactly, and there are a lot more hurdles you don't even think about. I was talking to this homeless woman who usually slept next to this big arts center that was being demolished, and I was trying to be helpful and rattled off all the places I thought would be good places to sleep rough. It turns out every single one was unsuitable because of punitive local ordinances or sadistic property owners.

>>510440231
It sounds like this city has underfunded or nonexistent programs for this problem because this is way behind the national average. It wouldn't surprise me if this is the case, it sounds likely even. The entire government apparatus for this was stunned by COVID, and a lot of places haven't recovered from that influx. All government assistance programs are needlessly annoying to apply for by design. It's to disincentivize use. I haven't heard of any state or federal program that doesn't have this problem.

>>510440183
lazy pussy
Get a job zoomer. How long do you expect your parents to support your lazy nigher ass

>>510440754
All of that is definitely true, and in that light it's clear that homelessness is not a difficult problem to solve in any sense but politically

>>510440183
This is the support network issue. If you have no support network or a limited one, you are likely to be homeless for longer. Since people have much smaller friend groups nowadays, this problem has gotten much worse. It is better in rural areas because it's easier to get things done, and church groups are more likely to directly contribute massively to battling the problem. For instance, there are religious organizations that directly help with everything you just mentioned as a hurdle to overcoming homelessness. Some of which are statewide, and a few that operate in several states.
>>510441100
It's not just a political problem. When we talk about homelessness, we are talking about several distinct issues that have different solutions, but we call all of them homelessness. The safety net issue is easy to deal with and doesn't have many hurdles to overcome. Permanent homelessness sucks up a lot of the funding for economic homelessness. Mental health, drug use homelessness sucks up even more. My understanding is that economic homelessness tends to get last dibs on resources in blue states and gets first dibs in red states. We can make getting the resources easier, but what tends to be the result is that the people who need it get last dibs on said resources, depending on the state in question. The federal answer to this is to make everything annoying, so regardless of who runs the state, the economically homeless person is more likely to receive the benefits.