Reply #84: However, there was a time (Back in fifties and sixties) when homelessness

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was not so prevalent as the 50 cent a night hotels were there.

If need be, people would double up. And then gradually property prices soared, so there was no longer the places to take someone in at night. By the late seventies, were there any places like that left? Maybe a youth hostel here or there, in more remote places.

We know the drill. By the nineties, property was an investment, no longer about housing. You were allowed to survive, but in many regions in the nation, only if you had exorbitant means to do so.

And the attitude of helping people has faded into the distant past. We no longer turn on the TV to see Ed Murrow specials on poverty, but to see the "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous." And we watch TV to see who will get voted off the island or out of the jungle. (I used to wonder, back when those "Reality" shows first started, if they were psychological training for the days of cannibalism that might be springing up. Teaching the "TV Nation" that the strong and manipulative survive, and the "less desirable" are not worth worrying about.)