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In reply to the discussion: 10 Unbelievably Sh**ty Things America Does to Homeless People [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)8. It's cruel IMHO.
If you don't like homeless and you have an extra room or guest house, offer it to a homeless person or couple, or mother with child. Just having an address gives them the opportunity to get benefits and maybe a job. I have seen all the former on the streets in my community. If you don't want to do that then the city councils and county boards of supervisors should offer them housing before making it difficult to live on the streets. If they can't do that, then they need to have squatters rights like many countries do, who have large poor and homeless populations, that means that they can construct crude shelters in streets and parks to protect them from the elements.
We need to do better and we need to be more compassionate.
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The Portland OR city council is considering a program to purchase micro-houses for the homeless.
Maedhros
Sep 2014
#60
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor . . .
Journeyman
Sep 2014
#7
Homeless torture infrastructure.... "Coin-op benches with retractable homeless spikes"
NYC_SKP
Sep 2014
#4
China and London are among the places we find these, but NYC has had them for 100+ yrs.
NYC_SKP
Sep 2014
#56
And yet some people don't understand the utter terror that possibly becoming homeless holds. n/t
ColesCountyDem
Sep 2014
#13
There isn't a Hell hot enough for those who would bleed it out of the homeless...
Aristus
Sep 2014
#14
That is the function of right-wing demagogues like Reagan, Limbaugh and O'Reilly.
Maedhros
Sep 2014
#61
Long ago, I read that the #of SRO hotel rooms that had been taken off the market
Bette Noir
Sep 2014
#34
Yup, and many end up in prison, which costs us way more than housing the homeless would. nt
SunSeeker
Sep 2014
#40