Should poorhouses be built to take the beggars off the streets ?
The homeless have rights, therefore cannot be forced to live in shelters, poorhouses or special housing. Many of the homeless do not want to have a permanent home, they have emotional, psychological and drug/alcohol dependence problems that disqualify them for permanent housing. Many of them should be in mental and rehab hospitals, but because they have rights no one can put them in the hospitals. Another large group of homeless are simply people who have had illness, lost jobs or other misfortunes. They would benefit from temporary housing and vocational training. My wife and I help feed about 200 homeless every week, so we are right there on the front lines and know the situation. For many of them it is the way they choose to live. We have been 2 weeks from being homeless once ourselves. It was not the fault of any rich people, it was due to 9/11 destroying our new business. In fact several of our customers were very wealthy and spent a lot of money with us, just not enough to stay i
Sure many on the streets are just irresponsible, addicts etc. Many hardworking people are one paycheck away from being on the streets also. Broad generalizations on homelessness are not very useful. There are many factors. I would argue that it is a reflection of our society as a whole. Do you think it might have anything to do with this? from the Albion Monitor at http://www.monitor.net/monitor/10-9-95/a… from results of a study published in the New York times “And what it says is that the United States of America today has by far the most unequal distribution of wealth in the entire industrialized world. And the article says that: Recent studies show that rather than being an egalitarian society, the United States has become the most economically stratified of industrialized nations. Even class societies like Britain, which inherited large differences in income and wealth over centuries, going back to thei
