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by blog0r
1166 days ago
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“There are many many services for the homeless” the services don’t do anything though. much like in general healthcare there is no incentive to helping people, its just a method of transferring wealth from poorer taxpayers to rich people using taxes. helping homeless people really wouldn’t be that hard its just that people with the power to make a difference aren’t even aware there is a problem. for example you think there are services to help the homeless but there really aren’t. there are just people who receive money and say they help the homeless but they don’t, and you don’t know any better because you don’t know any homeless people. insitutionalizing a violent mentally ill man is not in the same category as “helping the homeless”. its about equivalent to locking up a person who says in a therapists office yeah obviously I’m mildly suicidal like almost everyone else. it has nothing to do with helping people it’s just a way to make money and police the culture |
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You're right, in some ways. It's not that there aren't services that are trying, it's that chronic homelessness and transitory homelessness are nearly completely different problem domains, and the solutions to transitory homelessness don't do anything for chronic homelessness. Most of the programs are focused on helping the transitory homeless, or at least implementing solutions that only help the transitory homeless.
There /are/ services focused on chronic homelessness, although they are not as common, but as I mentioned, they require participants in those services to agree to the rules and follow-through, things that commonly fail. Most of the severely mentally ill homeless people /aren't/ violent, however they're not capable of consistently following a treatment plan or instructions. Most of the chronically homeless are basically /socially incompatible/ with the surrounding society, often due to their mental health problems, but at some level it's hard to separate what is a mental illness from what is a personality.
The "people in power" don't care about homelessness, but it's far more cynical than you're being, fixing homelessness doesn't move the needle for any of the things they care about, so they simply don't care. It doesn't even register for them, other than a visible inconvenience in some cities.