Well, the price of spying on girls in women shower is too damn high!
03/08/2014, 20:47
so true :D
While I'm not sure about "plenty", there ARE actually organizations trying to do exactly that.
"Housing First" it's called.
By giving a chronically homeless person a proper place to live, most of the reasons they became homeless become much easier to resolve.
Most other (religious-based) organizations put restrictions on helping people, like that they must have a job or be completely drug-free to qualify for aid. Have you ever tried to apply for a job, not having showered for weeks, and leaving the address field blank? And what incentive do you have to get off the drugs that keep depression at bay if you're planning to sleep in an alley tonight?
The Housing-First model actually works. Unfortunately it faces a lot of resistance. Most Americans don't like the idea of giving a homeless person a free house, when they have to pay for their own house (in case of mortgages, usually paying for half their lives before they own it). It's very counter-intuitive (regardless of if it works or not, it doesn't seem "right").
Also working against any help for the homeless (and creating this "invisibility" attitude you see in this comic) is the so-called "American Dream", that you can start from nothing, and with hard work and determination, rise to riches and great prosperity. It was a wonderful sales pitch to encourage immigration in the early years of US history (and every time they had a labor shortage) but it's fairly bullshit. The reality is that it's virtually impossible to climb out of poverty in the US without some form of outside assistance. However, because of that "American Dream" myth, most Americans look at the homeless and just assume they're lazy people who aren't willing to work hard enough to get off the streets all on their own.
"Housing First" it's called.
By giving a chronically homeless person a proper place to live, most of the reasons they became homeless become much easier to resolve.
Most other (religious-based) organizations put restrictions on helping people, like that they must have a job or be completely drug-free to qualify for aid. Have you ever tried to apply for a job, not having showered for weeks, and leaving the address field blank? And what incentive do you have to get off the drugs that keep depression at bay if you're planning to sleep in an alley tonight?
The Housing-First model actually works. Unfortunately it faces a lot of resistance. Most Americans don't like the idea of giving a homeless person a free house, when they have to pay for their own house (in case of mortgages, usually paying for half their lives before they own it). It's very counter-intuitive (regardless of if it works or not, it doesn't seem "right").
Also working against any help for the homeless (and creating this "invisibility" attitude you see in this comic) is the so-called "American Dream", that you can start from nothing, and with hard work and determination, rise to riches and great prosperity. It was a wonderful sales pitch to encourage immigration in the early years of US history (and every time they had a labor shortage) but it's fairly bullshit. The reality is that it's virtually impossible to climb out of poverty in the US without some form of outside assistance. However, because of that "American Dream" myth, most Americans look at the homeless and just assume they're lazy people who aren't willing to work hard enough to get off the streets all on their own.
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