Useless platitudes and soundbites we have heard morons repeat over and over again for the last 30 years that have done absolutely nothing to solve the problem.

Yet if we have people who care about us, we can get help to get back on our feet. Some work on keeping people that help in their lives, not walking away from them. Some don't.

I hope you and him find peace in this life. I had addiction and mental illness problems as well. If your still breathing still have a chance to find sobriety. I wish you the best i know its a problem thats not black or white but grey

I pray for the kid

The ultimate loneliness is to be homeless addicted and mentally sick. It is like being in a ship in a battle zone without shields, sensors or weapons to protect yourself. I pray your missing son is returned to you so you can both start the healing process. A mom's love and professional help can do wonders to heal a broken man.

I can’t see how saying someone is mentally ill can help self esteem and progression, there doesn’t seem to be an end to that title

Addiction is major cause of homelessness.

You can only help a person so far. If they don't want to help themselves, there is nothing you can do.

It's often not judging, it's protecting ourselves from poor behavior. If we say why we choose to keep them at arms length, folks like you call it judging. Will a person figure it out on their own? Hmm... Likely eventually, but why not let them see why you can't deal with them. In case they want to try something different that might work with someone else. Maybe it will work out.

I'm in England & we've homelessness more than other areas because we are a seaside town & close to London, plus the way life is! Gets worse year upon year & do not see a stop or reduction in numbers.

your right just the majority are..IE drug addicts

The problem for most people passing by is the majority of homeless folks who are not criminals are indistinguishable from those few who are criminals. It is the fact that those few homeless individuals who are criminals will do you great harm if given half a chance. The urban survival response of most passers by is to ignore all homeless people not because of a hard heart but for reasons of safety on city streets! Most people in cities know its best just to mind your business, never make eye contact with the homeless and keep moving. That way as a moving target you present minimal exploitation opportunity to all criminals who might target you.

Not every cop is a power hungry douchebag either. But the problem is that most of them are and it ruins it for everyone. Most homeless in Spokane is trash drug abuses and criminals. Screw them. We need to be helping the ones who are genuinely good people going through true hardships.

Three year old comment! That seems like a lifetime! Will I still even have this same phone in three years? I hope all is well with you since you left this comment Wendy. Peace and respect.

Update. The situation has only worsen.

So few people realize how close they are to being homeless at any given time. You live paycheck to paycheck? You are 1 sick day away from being homeless, Lose your job? You’re homeless. We all think it could never happen to us. It can. So be more compassionate, because one day you might be looking up at someone with a job asking for change.

I agree 💯... Here in Missoula Montana...the homeless are everywhere.. The problem I have with certain homeless people is that they justify their Drug use.. and have a million excuses of why they can't stop.. It's out of control

You can start, by not calling the unhoused "these people".

Just because some people have no interest in reading the encyclopedia or going to the opera doesn't mean they are garbage.

Job's that don't pay enough to let a single person live in safe stable housing within their respective communities are criminal and should be deemed illegal.

What kind of jobs are available blue collar?

If addiction is a major cause or seed of the plant of homelessness, it makes sense to find out our addictions, be they ever so seemingly insignificant and tackle them head on. It's a travesty that alcohol is socially as acceptable and normal as smoking, or illicit sex, where birth control means abortion and murder of the baby. When one is living a hallucination of so-called happiness in crippling habits,... the result can only be more and more misery. My heart goes out to the ignorant mass of people, struggling with addictions. You become the slave of your senses. They are relentless slave owners. They can cost you your job.

Stop Jacking rents through the roof. Might help.

Means the rich are greedy

Huge part of the problem is if they have been in jail, upon release they have no home or any money. So the vicious circle begins.

It's a cop out.

Bad choices ?

For sure that's a way low number I wonder where they got that?

Maybe..... but maybe not too. My fairly wealthy family had a 4 bedroom home. After my 2 sisters were on their own, I was staying at "home" with just Mom & Dad, and yet there was quarrel & contention because I had renounced meat eating, and Mom got enraged that I didn't eat her cooking anymore, but waited till they finished and cooked my rice & veggies in her pots. Now how did I sleep at night.... Tossing & turning from the antagonism. Mom was on a mission to squash my dreams (any & all)... And never hugged me or told me she loved me. (How did I sleep at night?) At last the day came she couldn't go another day with me in the big ol house. I was on the street and sad as anything ...hellish. I pretty much locked the door to my heart up for those negative vibes from my worst nightmare, psychological abusive parents, but they had the nerve to get the law to come find me after I didn't touch bases for 2 years. I met an ex-con hitchhiking the same highway, who knew where the free food was...... 🙄🙏🏻📚 It's not black and white. Some yogis live in caves and meditate. They are peaceful & satisfied so they don't have any guilt feelings.

@Canis no. I have been on the streets in LA and High Desert in Cali, I have paid my dues so no. I do have immense compassion for those that are still out there however, it breaks my heart.

Not everyone living in homes are snug under their covers with climate controlled rooms. I know families living in homes with little to no heat, without water, with leaking roofs and foundations caving in. My neighbor is almost 60 and she has broken pipes and a foundation that is caving in. I hooked a hose up and ran it to her house so she has water until winter when I have to pull it in so it doesn't freeze, I see her outside chopping wood to help heat her house and she put 4 by 4's in her basement to hold her house up.

@@AliciaM5555 You both humbled me and put me in my place. I admit I'm F-ing clueless. The faces and situations of poverty has many iterations. All I can say in my defense is being safe in a cold dilapidated house beats the heck out of living in a RV, street shanty or sidewalk tent in any city on Earth! I know LOTS of tent \ RV dwelling street homeless that would trade situations with her in a New York heartbeat! Being told to move along while having everything you own thrown away routinely in cleanup sweeps is not something she experiences. Yeah it's a Tiny Blessing, but her HOME is Still a Blessing She HAS that TOO MANY of US DON'T!

@@AUTISTICLYCAN I sincerely pray you get the help you need. I mean that. And in my eyes, I see you and I never turn away. ❤️

Rent money.

They are only showing a few people that the program helped, you might want to look further into how many have gone through their doors and how many they were not successful in helping. This is a charity that is trying to raise funds, if you go out and talk to the people that have sought help many will tell you they didn't help.

Yes it is very cruel. However, many of the Homeless do not want to help themselves. They want to be taken care of and don't even try crawling out of their rutt.

In thier comfortable castles.

Hope they respect it.

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Shelters will not allow pets nor are they safe.

The fact that homeless people are rule adverse is often why they are homeless. Even in your rent an apartment there are still RULES that must be followed to remain housed. That's why bleeding hearts demand the providing expensive supportive "Wrap Around Services" be included! The problem is providing housing plus expensive Wrap Around Services costs big time Wrap Around Funding stolen from Taxpayers Wallets". Socialist Welfare Wrap Around Services costs big money for people who are on paths to self destruction of their own making. All taxpayers dollars do is slow their dying process.

Does the human warehouse-oops-"shelter", have running water and toilets yet?

I don't care if a homeless person is a criminal or not. No human being deserves to be spit on with maybe the exception of released homeless sexual offenders, rapists, pedophiles and their ilk. No normal honest law biding homeless person deserves to spat upon for any reason. I don't like criminals but, I don't think even a homeless criminal deserves to be spat upon. Whats worse housed people often urinate on homeless rough sleepers. Set their tent's on fire, beat them with pipes, steal \ break their belongings and even in extreme cases HOUSED PEOPLE MURDER THE HOMELESS FOR SADISTIC SPORT! This is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!

Nope..There is no more hope..The new world order is upon us, and population control is their #1 goal..These people are being eliminated daily, and in just a short time everyone will notice the streets no longer have a large homeless population, and than there will be none! 😉..All of these things we all see, and even feel in 2020 is not by accident, or just coincidence..Everyone can feel a huge change coming..If you are a burden, and not contributing to society, eventually you’re going to be eliminated..This is what’s really happening..

@BrAnD you are 100% right here thank you for stating the honest truth.

Well said, and that being the truth, there is one exception that will save our life. That person (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) is eternally our support and only shelter for our life. We need only to trust in God. (It was written on our currency after all). 🇺🇸 As George Harrison sings "My Sweet Lord".. Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare

Most of the homeless have already been through exactly what you said, and many more..Now they’re on the streets, now what? It’s an endless cycle..They have to want it, they have to not want to be on drugs, alcohol, and off the streets..If the individual doesn’t want it like all of us, there’s nothing left to do for them..Showing these endless sad stories do nothing..

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How?

Yes thats for one population. There is also a small percentage of homeless that are not addicts

@@retrospecative2454 You are correct, some people prefer to be homeless....hippies....That doesn't last long

No. You fix the system that leads to the problems that cause one to become homeless. We have abysmal healthcare in this country. Mental health care is even harder to access. People use substances due to trauma and pain. Addiction is a symptom of a much larger problem.

@@averagejoe9851 You understand that hippies aren’t a thing. It’s not the 60s. This isn’t rebellion......this is reality for soon to be millions of people. Boomers. Born when the wealthiest Americans paid 70-90% tax rate. All the opportunities in the world. Greed so great they will go to any means necessary to prevent younger generations from succeeding while they are alive. This is the result of deregulation. Educational inequality. Lack of affordable housing due to homes viewed as investments not a human need and right. Lack of healthcare. Wage stagnation. Lack of a social safety net. Lack of understanding of the common good.

No. Your wrong. And clueless. Youve haven't been thru enough in life and you have parents and other family I sure who love you. Grow up man. You don't know everything. Did you know. 95% of IV drug users were molested/raped as children and suffer from PTSD??? Do you think PTSD is a choice? There's millions running around homeless with PTSD who need real help

How about never turning your back on someone that asks for help instead of judging them and avoiding the time to do anything that doesn't benefit you.

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@@DetroitFettyghost I believe that 99 percent of IV drug user injected it by choice. Do not expect me to feel compassion for drug addicts. You have 100% Choice when it comes to PTSD. An individual cannot prevent a horrific or traumatic life event but you can 100% control how you react to it. Again, people choose to be homeless. You don't run out of places to go unless you're burnt a lot of bridges on your way.

lol. Ok. "You can control p.t.s.d." yea...it's working out great for the few million in the world suffering from it. And homelessness isn't "running out of places to go". Alot of people WANT to be out there. Alot of people are to mentally unwell to function at a level that allows for day to day work, income, hygiene, eating, paying bills etc. Your just pigeon holeing people suffering addiction into the same basket......we'll keep on doing that because that's exactly why there is such a mess out there because NOBODY FN CARES 💩

Smh. Your repugnant.

@@DetroitFettyghost I am pulling out a basic fact. No one was concerned with how they can get a job or work. Stating that you should get a job if you want money is a perfectly legitimate viewpoint. These people rely on folks like me to go to work and pay taxes so that we can create more benefits for them. I am not saying they should be euthanized or anything that is actually repugnant. I am simply stating that if you want money, you should get a job

@sfv you're an ahole. I sincerely hope no one you love becomes homeless or addicted. Because you wouldn't give a single f*c would you?

You need an address before you can get a job. Most employers won't hire a homeless with no address.

God for bid you ever walk a mile in their shoes then you might know what it’s like now I can’t get that song out of my head oh by the way you are a POS

NOooooóo. They are the problem.