Homelessness is a mental affliction, while it’s noble to provide them with a standard of living that they haven’t worked for, it’s unfair to the rest of society and only serves to make being a homeless drug addict a viable lifestyle. If you want to encourage something then subsidize it, and welfare encourages poverty.
" Homelessness is a mental affliction "
no, it's being homeless. There's MANY different variables and situations that cause someone to enter this situation.
" it’s unfair to the rest of society and only serves to make being a homeless drug addict a viable lifestyle "
It's also unfair that if you enter a situation you have very little hope of making it any better, and I'd assume if someone was in an assissted living situation they'd be required to take regular drug tests, especially if they're prone to being addicted.
Also, taxes can pay for it and I'd be fine with it if it were a " until you get on your feet " situation and not a " for the rest of your life " one
So, I work with homeless people. Most of them are here because of addiction or mental health issues, usually a combination of both. Getting them into housing, even transitional housing, as fast as possible and providing them with services to keep them there is the biggest deterrent to homelessness. It doesn't always work, and sometimes it takes two or three tries to get somebody permanently housed, but the bottomline is that a housing first approach works best.
Statically speaking it saves the tax payer money to build housing for the homeless and the poor as it has been shown many times that doing such will lower the amount of people that require such programs over time eventually reaching rather low amount (with the assistance of other similar purpose programs.) however even being shown statistics on such many Americans still feel it's unfair to the person who worked for their homes because apparently feeling like their achievement being special is more important than the economically more sound and better for Americans as a whole option
This would also be a cool idea for a small apartment complex? Stores could also rent out the food court for easy access to customers and maybe a couple convenience stores
It makes sense, actually... Depending on the mall, the conversion would probably be less expensive than a purpose built homeless shelter... Aside from the usual gripes about "contributing to society" I can't really see a problem with it.
So what's stopping you from starting this now? Find a mall, figure out a budget, create a Go-Fund-Me, and go for it. Sitting around waiting on the government to force people to do it means it never gets done, working with like minded people to accomplish something means it will be supported by passion.
no, it's being homeless. There's MANY different variables and situations that cause someone to enter this situation.
" it’s unfair to the rest of society and only serves to make being a homeless drug addict a viable lifestyle "
It's also unfair that if you enter a situation you have very little hope of making it any better, and I'd assume if someone was in an assissted living situation they'd be required to take regular drug tests, especially if they're prone to being addicted.
Also, taxes can pay for it and I'd be fine with it if it were a " until you get on your feet " situation and not a " for the rest of your life " one