naieve question here......why are there homeless people?

[sherminator]

I dont have any links but just read on bbc about people who distribute food to homeless people and it got me thinking...

Why cant the government just use land in a city, build a big hostel complex and let all the homeless live there? (obv i dont know how many homeless there are in each city and if this is viable)

It would give everyone a place of address and the chance to get a job and then they could contribute to the cost of living in a hostel? also they could still get all the free food that they normally get donated from foodshops and all the homeless would be in one place to make it easier!


Am i just being incredibly naieve?

[Sqad]

Sherminator.....but the point is....she didn´t.

[Sqad]

O.K...we have had a few posters.

Hands up any of you who would NOT object to a hostel for the homeless being erected in your near neighbourhood.

[sophie_1003]

I wouldn't mind, we already have a council estate behind us and 'Little Poland' over the road so a homeless shelter wouldn't make much difference!

[sandyRoe]

Sqad
Are you of the opinion that people living on the streets are always the masters of their own misfortune and deserve to be there?

[Sqad]

sandy......in the majority of cases.........YES

[sandyRoe]

Your opinion flies in the face of all the evidence, but it's your's and you're entitled to it.

[sherminator]

and i would have no problem having a hostel put up! if they were misbehaved then they would be kicked out and then were back at square one anyway!

My point about my mum is she was probably a couple of bad decsisions away from being on the street! Very hard life compared to me!! What bout girls who get raped by their fathers and runaway to the streets to escape being abused?

[B00]

Sorry ,but yes, I'd also object to a hostel- filled to the brim of jobless, drug addled people living in my neighbourhood too.

[paddywak]

We've already go an estate full, and the local council keeps shipping them out from Newark (out of sight out of mind) as soon as they've got an empty place. Fortunately for us the worst drift back to town and the ones who stay tend to get on with their own lives without bothering anybody

[McMouse]

An earlier post suggested sending the homeless to Afghanistan. Regretably an awful lot of rough sleepers are ex-Army who cannot adjust to civilian life.

[ummmm]

There was a guest house opposite my last house. They started taking in homeless and battered wifes. Besides 1 murder we never had any problems :-)

[ethandron]

mcmouse, 40% are. very sad.

[daffy654]

I was homeless for a while and slept in doorway and bus shelters etc. I never begged or caused any trouble though.
I was brought up in council run children's homes due to my mother having serious mental health issues (and her being in prison regularly). When I turned 16 I was forced to leave the home with no support system. I found a flat but was kicked out after a short time as the landlord wanted a relative of his to have it.

Not everyone who is homeless has drug.alcohol problems or has flounced out of a home after a row.

[boxtops]

ethandron and mcmouse are right, a lot of homeless people are ex-Forces, as my OH will confirm. People being demobbed have fought for their country but are not helped at all when they come home - especially single men - they find is extremely difficult to adjust and are given no rights at all, as I understand it, to housing etc.. They deserve better than this.

[askyourgran]

Boxy that makes me really sad when I hear of soldiers being demobbed and made homeless, there should be a support system for them it must be bad enough adjusting to civvy life.

[Marijn]

I think Sqad is trying to be controversial, I don't think an intelligent person could be as naive as he's pretending to be.
The majority of homeless people wouldn't choose to be homeless. Most are homeless through extenuating circumstances, which I'm grateful I haven't had to face.

[rov1200]

Whatever happened to the last government's scheme for renting out a room in your house without having to pay tax on the income generated. As all the mini-towns are being abandoned, planning rules changed to suit the local inhabitants, then there are major problems ahead.

Maybe they should resurrect that scheme which could remove thousands from being homeless.

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