OldLady
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Despite determined efforts to turn this thread to refugees and illegal immigrants for some reason, I return to the OP's point:
She couldn't find a place to live because she couldn't find a job and the shelter was either full up or she had been staying there more than the "thirty days" many shelters have as a cap for services.
In my state, homeless shelters are few and far between and have been filled beyond capacity for the past four years, anyway. I live in a county that doesn't even have one. For awhile I was doing release planning with inmates leaving prison, and for those with no place to go, it was a nightmare. Back before the Crash, or maybe before the Republican governor--not sure which--inmates could apply for a program that helped them pay for their apartment the first couple months, so they would have a place to live while they established a steady job. It went the way of the dodo bird. Why should anyone spend money on someone who once broke the law, anyway? Pay now or pay later, I say. You want to keep people acting lawful, you gotta give 'em a chance. Not just $50 cash, a bus ticket home and the address of the nearest homeless shelter where you may or may not get a bed.
The community action folks have been trying to get a homeless shelter here for years. Funds, red tape, regulations and finding a place that residents will accept have been consistent barriers.
A lot of posters are saying we should be putting our money toward these projects rather than toward refugees, but if that were true, wouldn't we already be addressing those problems? Do they really think $ spent on immigrants and refugees is the reason the homeless and ex-felons and the mentally ill are not being "cared for" ????
It's because no one gives a shit about them.
She couldn't find a place to live because she couldn't find a job and the shelter was either full up or she had been staying there more than the "thirty days" many shelters have as a cap for services.
In my state, homeless shelters are few and far between and have been filled beyond capacity for the past four years, anyway. I live in a county that doesn't even have one. For awhile I was doing release planning with inmates leaving prison, and for those with no place to go, it was a nightmare. Back before the Crash, or maybe before the Republican governor--not sure which--inmates could apply for a program that helped them pay for their apartment the first couple months, so they would have a place to live while they established a steady job. It went the way of the dodo bird. Why should anyone spend money on someone who once broke the law, anyway? Pay now or pay later, I say. You want to keep people acting lawful, you gotta give 'em a chance. Not just $50 cash, a bus ticket home and the address of the nearest homeless shelter where you may or may not get a bed.
The community action folks have been trying to get a homeless shelter here for years. Funds, red tape, regulations and finding a place that residents will accept have been consistent barriers.
A lot of posters are saying we should be putting our money toward these projects rather than toward refugees, but if that were true, wouldn't we already be addressing those problems? Do they really think $ spent on immigrants and refugees is the reason the homeless and ex-felons and the mentally ill are not being "cared for" ????
It's because no one gives a shit about them.