Alcoholics and drug addicts who panhandle and sleep on the streets
need to make a choice to beat their addictions. Institutions that
simply call these people "homeless" and throw food and blankets at
them do more harm than good. Allowing addicts to feed their
addictions rather than forcing them to use whatever money they have
to feed their bodies allows these addicts to remain in their hellish
limbo. Concentrating them all in one place makes allows their anti
social behaviors to go less noticed, at least on an individual basis.
The mentally ill who are unable to keep it together should to be
institutionalized if no other sustainable supervised living
arrangements can be made for them.
Able bodied / able minded people who have fallen on hard times and no
longer have a home of their own have numerous options available to
them through social services at the federal state and local levels.
Most of these people avoid shelters like the plague because they are
so often filled with addicts and the mentally ill.
Simply calling all these people "homeless" obfuscates the real
problems faced by people living on the streets. It is telling that
poverty pimps in the homeless business will call you insensitive or
worse if you referr to street people as alcoholics, addicts or
mentally ill. However, until the real problems these people face are
recognized, they are simply going to remain as they are to the
detriment of all.
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