Homeless in your area?

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For some reason this was a suggested video in my video feed and I ended up watching (about half) of it. O k, so it's not exactly "new" but it is just from last year. Got me to wondering if anyone lives in/near a similar area. I was quite surprised to see so much homelessness in San Francisco.

 

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The big cities have a lot of homeless people and the cities ignore them for the most part. There are centers for them to go to when it's too hot or too cold but I have no idea where those are in my nearest city.

In my tiny town, I have read that there is a homeless woman who refuses help. So many people have offered her a job and she doesn't want it. She has mental issues too and I think a lot of them are like that.
 

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We have a homeless problem here but it’s not as bad as SF. I live outside the city and besides the panhandlers on many street corners we don’t see much of it where we‘re at. There was one homeless woman who was well known around town. She was mentally ill. rumor has it that her father tried and tried to help her but she refused. Last I heard, she finally accepted help.
 

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San Fransciso is actually a good place for the homeless due to the weather. Any place with weather sometimes or a lot of the time approching or going below freezing is a bad place.
 

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I'm not aware of homeless people in my area. In the cities you'd expect more homeless people. Away from the cities it's hard to see what they would do - in the city you can ask people walking by for change, see if any cafes have unsold food you can have, scavenge in dumpsters if you have to etc. Away from the cities where people don't get around by walking and there aren't many local food businesses it's hard to see how you'd get by.

When the temperature drops well below freezing it's hard to see how you'd even stay alive living on the streets, unless you are in an area where you could get away with burning stuff. And of course that means you need stuff to burn and a place to burn it.

Of course when the supply of housing is limited, at least in part because of governmental zoning regulations, and the price is stratospheric because of unsuitable interest rate policies, it's inevitable that a growing underclass can't afford a place to call home. It's rather ironic that the same government that caused the problem then expects people to accept it as the solution to the problem.
 

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Homeless people typically fall into one of two categories:

The temporary homeless- which are people who got behind on rent and were evicted or maybe even lost a house due to non-payment. These folks don't typically stay homeless for long. They take advantage of government/church/social programs that help them get re-established.

The chronic homeless-Typically have mental health issues or addiction issues. These are the folks who will not accept help or are unable to make the kind of decisions/commitment needed to overcome being homeless.

Churches and social programs can and do help those who are willing to put in the time and effort to overcomes a setback or bad decisions.

Churches and social programs can't do anything to help the chronic homeless except make sure they don't starve to death and don't freeze to death. Every once in a while a chronically homeless person will emerge but it is when they decide, for whatever reason, that they are tired enough to do something about it.
 

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They have government housing for the needy but the wait is often a year or more. Well, how many homeless are applying?
 
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