How should one treat the homeless?

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SalomePortman

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Okay so I got stopped by a homeless guy when I was walking home from my job...he gave me a similar sob story to the first time I met him (and I gave him £10). This time I told him I didn't have any cash...he tried sobbing again. It was in a similar area to the time I first met him. Shame me once...
 
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SalomePortman said:
Okay so I got stopped by a homeless guy when I was walking home from my job...he gave me a similar sob story to the first time I met him (and I gave him £10). This time I told him I didn't have any cash...he tried sobbing again. It was in a similar area to the time I first met him. Shame me once...
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Don't be like Jim Carrey in Yes Man.
 
Lanolin

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I think they need more than just cash

Hope for the future. But in a way thats not preachy.

The thing with homelessness is that is political because the govt to a certian extent controls housing policy. What you can build and where. If there is no provision for housing people miss out, and private landlords can charge whatver they like for rent.

When people do have home, it might be 8 to a room even, or living in a garage...
Plus the new homes going up are not going to last five years due to cutting corners on roofs. Ive seen new homes that dont even have eaves, so that when it rains heavily as it does where I live...the walls will get soaked and it will rot.

Houses are even going up where its prone to flooding and they should not be built there. Witness the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
 
Lanolin

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If you live 8 to a room there is bound to be conflict sooner or later.
Which is why domestic violence is higher among the poor.

Also, I think that anyone living on the streets is reduced to living like an stray animal and they will do whatever they can to survive, but anyone on drugs wont be in their right mind. Unfortunately those on drugs have already been preyed on by drug dealers (who often actually have fancy homes, or they have homes that are gated and got surveillance cameras to hude their drug dealing) so its ironic.
 
Lanolin

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Reccomended viewing/reading A streetcat Named Bob
 
SalomePortman

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Lanolin said:
I think they need more than just cash

Hope for the future. But in a way thats not preachy.

The thing with homelessness is that is political because the govt to a certian extent controls housing policy. What you can build and where. If there is no provision for housing people miss out, and private landlords can charge whatver they like for rent.

When people do have home, it might be 8 to a room even, or living in a garage...
Plus the new homes going up are not going to last five years due to cutting corners on roofs. Ive seen new homes that dont even have eaves, so that when it rains heavily as it does where I live...the walls will get soaked and it will rot.

Houses are even going up where its prone to flooding and they should not be built there. Witness the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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This is a fantastic comment.
 
Lanolin

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I was looking at those levees in New Orleans etc how they were breached and ended up devastating the homes MORE than if they hadnt had any in the first place, because the flood waters overrode them and ended up with MORE volume of water because the levees would channel the water even higher.

They also seemed built too close to the rivers on low lying ground (or in the delta area)

I think if you going to build a home below sea level, do it like the Dutch do although their homes are never really out of risk.
 
Pureness

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Like they're human beings, which they are
 
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