Across a town 20 persons with mental illness are housed in a series of different setion 8 houses, puc]blic housing projects etc. They each receive free rent, a monthly check food stamps and a medical card
meanwhile the local homeless camp includes a 5 people who are also mentally ill, they qualify for the same programs but have not successfully accessed them
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Along comes a politically-motivated individual who declares
“Yargh!! Conservatives are stupid! We should build a new building and house all 25 of those people in it separately in the same building”
Is this a cure for homelessness?
Does anyone (even the politcially-motivated individual) believe this is a cure for homelwessness?
You just don’t understand the actual homeless. population and what they really need, nor do you understand how this crisis was created by politicians and greedy deals cut by politicians. It is also a fact that regular citizens are no longer going to accept homeless in regular city or suburban streets. It’s too risky. Crime is through the roof.
I’d like to see the feds end foreign aid and instead pour that money into throwing up large metal buildings or something similar around the country that can be divided up in pods for the homeless. Charity begins at home.
Seems that progressives put more money towards homelessness because they have more resources. More rural areas have a harder time fully understanding their problem because of the lack of centralized resources to accurately count.
If I had to guess, that is by design. Can’t have a homeless problem in red areas after consistently beating up blue areas over the problem.
A homeless encampment beneath an I-59 overpass during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Homeless populations are once again some of the most vulnerable as the coronavirus spreads.
Unhoused people in the Houston area are being placed in permanent housing at an increased rate after the city of Houston and Harris County invested nearly $200 million to reduce homelessness in the area, according to an annual count of the region’s homeless population.
The Coalition for the Homeless of Houston and Harris County counted 3,223 unhoused people in Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties during its annual point-in-time count in January. The coalition found a 19% decrease in overall homelessness in the region since 2020, and a 64% decrease since 2011, according to the report.
More than 25,000 people have been placed in permanent housing since 2011;
We were talking about cities. Why is that confusing?
Both red rural areas and blue non-rural cities/towns have a homelessness problem. My guess is that rural homelessness problem is downplayed because those towns don’t want to acknowledge they have a problem just like non rural cities/towns.
However, The article points out that the homeless problem in rural areas is harder to track because of lack of resources.
Moving the mentally disabled from Section 8 housing and other public housing to hospitals does not solve homelessness. It would not even put a dent in it.
That is not what you said. You said rules were in place to hide it in red rural areas. Why don’t you want to discuss what you said instead of trying to change what you said