01-20-2024, 01:33 AM
Any suggestions on helping the homeless..
Sure, gov, state or county, needs to acquire, buy, build, housing, apartments, lots of them, that are then made available to the homeless. They need more units than there are homeless, and if that’s thousands, tens of thousands, so be it.
Once established, the complex(s) need to have onsite social workers, and all the others that would participate in helping each resident find and get the care they need. Drug rehab, mental health care, physical health care, education, job training, employment placement, help getting into more permanent housing, and be committed to the process for as long as it takes. With the goal being to move everyone that comes to their doors out and into more permanent situations. But, until an individual is ready, they need to be welcome in these homeless homes indefinitely.
And, once the program is up and running there needs to be sweeps of all homeless encampments to get those living on the streets to move into the housing. Even, if it comes to it, to do so with some insistence. I want to say outlaw those sleeping on the streets, but I am not comfortable with any language that would suggest those that need the services are any less than just down on their luck. In other words, I would not criminalize anything.
And, until such a facility is in place, there needs to be social workers, and all the other types of care givers concerned, on the streets, working daily with the homeless. Helping them get on assistance, helping them get whatever they need to improve their lot in life. Reaching out to them, and themselves being accountable for defining what is happening, and who needs what, and getting them what they need.
If such a program existed there would not be pregnant women having babies on the streets.
Sure, gov, state or county, needs to acquire, buy, build, housing, apartments, lots of them, that are then made available to the homeless. They need more units than there are homeless, and if that’s thousands, tens of thousands, so be it.
Once established, the complex(s) need to have onsite social workers, and all the others that would participate in helping each resident find and get the care they need. Drug rehab, mental health care, physical health care, education, job training, employment placement, help getting into more permanent housing, and be committed to the process for as long as it takes. With the goal being to move everyone that comes to their doors out and into more permanent situations. But, until an individual is ready, they need to be welcome in these homeless homes indefinitely.
And, once the program is up and running there needs to be sweeps of all homeless encampments to get those living on the streets to move into the housing. Even, if it comes to it, to do so with some insistence. I want to say outlaw those sleeping on the streets, but I am not comfortable with any language that would suggest those that need the services are any less than just down on their luck. In other words, I would not criminalize anything.
And, until such a facility is in place, there needs to be social workers, and all the other types of care givers concerned, on the streets, working daily with the homeless. Helping them get on assistance, helping them get whatever they need to improve their lot in life. Reaching out to them, and themselves being accountable for defining what is happening, and who needs what, and getting them what they need.
If such a program existed there would not be pregnant women having babies on the streets.