The Homeless Industrial Complex
(truthonthestreets.substack.com)
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This narrative is pushed all over the communist sphere in places like Reddit. you always see things like “almost all of the homeless are just people who lost their job, their car broke down, they are just like you and you could be next.” Uh, just no. There is a mountain of difference between most of the homeless I see who being locked in asylum is the compassionate thing to do, and me and normal people.
Someone who lost everything from bacd luck but has a half-decent moral character, a brain, and dosen't do drugs, can apply for wellfare, go to a food bank, and have basic necessities covered.
Now if the instant the cash drops to the account, purshases of alchool, luxury junkfood, cigarettes and drugs start, yeah you'll be in trouble constantly. By your own actions.
I have little sympathy for wellfare crocodile tears. I've been lied-to way too much by the media and activists to believe them on the subject.
I'm poor, but not on wellfare. I carefully check for grocery rebates, don't waste a dime on alchool/smokes/drugs, haven't seen a dentist in a decade and my glasses will be old enough to vote soon.
Wellfare crybabies piss me off so much.
Not the case today, at least in my area. Social housing is primarily now restricted to women, those with children, migrants and those who served in the military. If you're single, male and childless, the council will just tell you to not bother to apply because it will take so long, if you're lucky. That wasn't the case a couple or so decades ago.
Worse still, private landlords are starting to refuse renting their property to single people on the basis that a couple provide more financial security (two incomes) and the social stereotyping that singles cause more issues for landlords.
You can't legally claim welfare or be employed if you are not registered at a residential address.
While councils have a statutory duty to provide shelter for the unintentionally homeless, you still have all the problems above. The likelihood is that we're going to see a clampdown on homelessness via the new Criminal Justice Bill that replaces the Vagrancy Act by criminalising it and jailing the homeless!
Thanks for reminding me what open borders did to the West social security net.
Where I live, you can register your adress at many social service points like homeless shelters to be eligible for wellfare or employment.
If I woke up tomorrow morning and my job and everything I owned except the clothes on my back were gone, I still wouldn't sleep on the street that night. I'd walk to a friends house where at the very least I'd be offered a couch to sleep, because they know I'd be doing everything I can to be gone as quickly as possible, that I wouldn't bring drugs into their house, that I wouldn't harm their children, and that I wouldn't escape one night with all of their things.
So I question the character of any allegedly good person living on the streets as to why they've made so little of a good impact to the people around them that they'd be allowed to live on the streets.
I honestly feel like those people just cannot be left alone, they NEED a guardian to even function, why give them money anyways if they use it for crack, meth, alcohol or whatever is the rage now. They will NEVER fix their issues on their own and because of that there will always be homeless. There's people who can be helped but it's not the majority and not even a big minority, its a very, very small minority that can be fixed that way. Others are just entirely broken and better off if they OD.
It sounds cruel but is the sad reality we live in.
Yes. They need to be institutionalized. It worked in the past and it can work again if people stopped dicking around like there's some new fangled solution out there.