From the caring, sharing land of the free.....

[shropshire 0]

Feed the homeless and go to jail

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Coreece 190]

This country is starting to sound more and more like my homeowners association where my little 7 year old cousin can't even sell lemonade during the community garage sale without formal permission and fees...

The only difference is that when I tell the association to piss off, they listen...

Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

[wmw999 2,589]

I volunteer at a homeless shelter; we carefully maintain our commercial kitchen status to avoid exactly this kind of thing. But they come to our place to eat.

Some seem to think that if you make it hard enough, people will just go away, or maybe die. The problem is that if they don't have any money, it's kind of hard to do. And when you live in a city where you can be homeless year-round, well, there aren't a lot of better places to go. And it's expensive to just jail them all

OTOH, Houston is participating in a nationwide effort to find housing for as many long-term homeless as they can; one way of helping the problem of homelessness is to, in fact, provide subsidized housing. The number of actually homeless that we see is going down. We still get plenty of poor people (we serve without distinction, except for showers and laundry -- you gotta be homeless to get those), though.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[Bertt 0]

Another way to help the homeless is mental health services. A lot of chronically homeless people have someone they could live with, but they can't get along with them because of mental illness or addiction.

You don't have to outrun the bear.

[wmw999 2,589]

Oh absolutely. A significant number of our truly homeless suffer from one or the other of those, or else they're just not the smartest guys -- the ones who struggled to make the occasional C in school.

Many would have been great cowboys or itinerant workers in past times; those times are just past.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)