It is an industry for the left.
Manhattan Contrarian ping.
and don’t forget preventing anyone else from solving the problem.
Absolutely true. The goal of homeless advocacy is the creation of victims...not their rescue.
That’s why the Brandon regime is importing so many homeless freeloader voters.
The Left aren’t about solving problems. They are only about making an issue of the problem, often where none exists.
Solutions to problems would wreck their gravy trains.
true concept for most of what government does. It’s all a scam.
Not mentioned was the crime and drug use, predictable unintended consequences of a progressive homeless policy, that has sent SF into a doom loop. Maybe the tide will turn against the homeless industrial complex in favor of clean streets. Nah.
Anybody remember the self-serving movie Martin Sheen did many years ago about Homeless Advocate Mitch Synder? Sheen made him out to be a Saint but the truth was even worse, he was a fraud and scam artist.
So where is Martin Sheen on this, is downtown in San Francisco helping donating or just chilling in his nice home in Beverly Hills?
cloward-piven
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The vast majority of homelessness is a result of mental illness, not money or a lack of housing.
In the past a lot of these people would be institutionalized...
During the 19th and early 20th century they had ‘poor, or workhouses’ for those unable to hold or find a job. The industrial revolution resulted in hundreds of thousands being unemployed and unemployable because their former occupations had become redundant and unnecessary. And people who had obvious mental issues were sent of to mental asylums, the only place capable of dealing with them.
The methods and conditions were horrible, but the net effect was cleaning up the streets. By the med 20th century, pretty much everybody could obtain a job, so the lack of employment dissipated.
Mental health issues increased, so much so that institutions were overcrowded and many of them were old and needed replacing... The result was a relaxing of the criteria for institutionalizing people with mental health conditions by the ‘experts’.
They decided that letting these lunatics run free and clear of the system was a better idea than dealing with them, and in the end it made their jobs a lot easier. Thus, the mess we find ourselves in today.
Millions of people who should be institutionalized are free to wig out in a way they see fit... And sometimes they do it right in front everybody... And if you’re a very unlucky person, they may be wigging out right in front of your residence on a daily basis. The fact is, despite the annoyance and embarrassment they cause, most of them are completely harmless... Meaning that they won’t stab you, or try to harm others... But every now and then one of them will go full tilt and kill somebody.
Until the ‘experts’ decide to start doing their jobs and taking care of these tortured souls... That’s the way it’s going to be. Like it or not.
To create a problem and then never solve it is the democrat way. It’s a great way to get votes and tax dollars out of the bleeding hearts and weak minded sheep.
I recall years ago it was theorized that Bush II got the Afghan and Iraq wars going to give himself a legacy. And it was a winner that kept going for 20 years.
It’s not unique, I’ve watched people do this at the work place to better their appraisals and/or get promotions.
the problem is spiritual
they need Jesus, they need to change their heart, they need the spiritual rebirth
they are killing themselves with drugs and alcohol and do not want to change.
I am already in, for the last 7 years,a homeless ministry, and I know this first hand.’’
almost none want to sober up, and refuse to go to long term housing if they have to unless it is winter, the cold shelter will take them in, but the treatment programs are what they avoid.
I have given awqy over 200 Bibles by now...only 2 ever went to church, only 3 ever went to the long term mission, only 4 ever prayed with me to get saved, one of them got on a bus, never saw her again, the others just went back to their drugs.
it is depressing to see so many reject salvation and then get huffy if I dont feed them each time I see them.
alcohol and meth are killers.
Over half the homeless are mentally ill. Pass an ordinance no more loitering or living on the street and reinstate public “mental health” institutions. Two options are either they can move on or agree to an evaluation and potential involuntary commitment to a mental institution to get treatment. Because of the nature of the occupants, these institutions are rarely pretty...but neither is the mentally ill living on the streets and threatening the public pretty. Those are the hard choices.
The rest are addicts. Two choices. Move on or get taken to a rehab facility. If they are encamped on the street after rehab. One choice, move on.
Every Business needs 2 things.
Product
Customers
In this case the product is “The Homeless Individuals”
The “Customers” are those who give to Charities and Local Governments.
The Business Owners are the “Homeless Advocates”.
Finally every “Organization” be it private or public has One Goal.
GROWTH
This is never going to go away.