Re:LA pays $2600 per homeless tent, per month
by JohnBooty on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:39AM
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Homeless shelters are often not safe or pleasant places.
I don't have a definitive article or source to link to, but there are myriad accounts of theft, violence, and sexual violence at homeless shelters.
If I was homeless I would almost certainly prefer to sleep in my car (if I still owned one) or couch-surf with friends/family if possible.
Is this because the services don't really offer
effective help for this group?
What the transiently homeless want/need is are jobs that pay a living wage so that they can begin paying for their own housing once again. That is what really breaks the "cycle" of homelessness. It's difficult for anybody, much less a homeless shelter, to place people into those sorts of jobs.
I don't have a definitive article or source to link to, but there are myriad accounts of theft, violence, and sexual violence at homeless shelters.
If I was homeless I would almost certainly prefer to sleep in my car (if I still owned one) or couch-surf with friends/family if possible.
What the transiently homeless want/need is are jobs that pay a living wage so that they can begin paying for their own housing once again. That is what really breaks the "cycle" of homelessness. It's difficult for anybody, much less a homeless shelter, to place people into those sorts of jobs.