What is a good solution(s) to help the homeless in America?

Answer 1

I think the government should house them in like a military barracks and help them out, bring back their self respect and dignity

Answer 2

Since we do not have time to write a huge answer, and it is all my opinion anyway. I would say this.

Homeless people seem to be broken into three groups. Those that want to live there, those that are there due to mental illness, and those that are there to a series of unfortunate events.

With that being said...the first group will live on the streets no mater waht.

The second group needs to be hospitalized until they can be cured, if that is possible. Some of the mentally ill people end up there because they do not think they need their medication any more and thus slip back into their state of mental illness and back onto the street.

The third group needs a hand up. Social programs to assist these people would be the best solution, but I am sure some would disagree.

Though a mentioned three groups, there are of course the panhandlers that are not really homeless and just make their job collecting money as a job of sorts. Last I heard, panhandling in Florida can net you 38k per year is done right. Not bad considering it is tax free.

Rant over:)

Answer 3

I think if you did some reasearch you would find that most of the people who are called homeless are people suffering from mental illness. There may be many causes but such as: alcoholism, drug addiction, acute depression and some others. Some years ago these people would have been insitutionalized and cared for and out of sight. With mental health reform institutions were down sized and closed. Now there people are out on the street and visible.

The thing they all have in common is that they are marginalized by society because they are considered non productive. The only way this will change is if we reach out to people living on the street and support them in a dignified manner until they can get well or take control of thier own lives.

Answer 4

There is no good solution which will remove ALL the homeless from our streets.

Some are people displaced by outsourced jobs, what they need is adequate training in an industry which cannot outsource, the service industry. So these unfortunate humans will have to take the jobs no one wants just to stay off your streets. Is this a viable solution? When rent on a 2 bedroom apartment full of roaches is approaching $1,000.00 a month in many urban areas?

Some persons currently homeless are so because they simply dont have the social skills necessary to earn more than minimum wage, for any long amount of time. The answer here isn't job training, it's training of a more sociological nature. Some persons simply do not have the discipline (or the talents) to graduate college, some not even high school. What's the solution here? Develop a class of jobs they are capable of holding, and subsidizing their rent? Or we just ship the able ones straight into the military?

And some persons are homeless because they are utterly incapable of caring for themselves in a manner in which society approves. Due to mental illness in one form or another, these persons need extensive stays in hospitals and possibly months of post-hospital rehabilitation, not to mention the lifelong need to monitor, possibly administer, regular medication to keep them focused, productive and off the streets. Not to mention there are just some people who are living on the street because they PREFER to remain "unplugged" from society, who don't want its "help", who just want to be left alone with no responsibilities.

There can be no single solution to help this situation. Certainly, some can be assisted, and we as a society have the responsibility to help those with the wit to benefit from the assistance. But as far as getting every last homeless off the street? I can't think of anything short of MASSIVE infusions of money. to build hospitals and train staff to care for the mentally ill ones.

Answer 5

Pretty much the same as my answer to Bono's question:

The first step is to get rid of greed. As long as the richest people in this country continue to find ways to exploit others, thereby making the poor poorer, and making themselves richer, we will continue to have poverty.

If those people didn't "need" million dollar or more houses, and dozens of cars and other junk and just lived like the average person, they would have plenty of money left over to distribute to the less fortunate.

Oh, their are plenty of rich folks out there that "donate" millions of dollars for causes to help the needy, but it is obviously not enough. Besides, what kind of sacrifice does it take to give away a million dollars when you have a hundred million and you'll be getting another million or more in a week or two? That's like me having $100 in my pocket to blow and I just give the needy on the street $1. No sweat off of my back and I "did a service to the less fortunate." Do you know what that guy thinks. . . "Cheap 4ss! I'm starving here and that's all you can give me from all that money you have to waste? Why don't you try living like me for awhile?" If the rich really want to make a difference, then be more generous with all of that excessive money you have.

Perhaps politicians could have a much smaller salery and not have all of those super cushy benifits, like retaining their salary as retirement for the rest of their life. By seperating the power from the money (and the greed), we might actually get some intelligent caring people and they could possibly make a difference.
The problem is not the poverty, the problem is greed, egoism, and selfcenteredness. When the world wakes up and people start looking beyond themselves, then we might actually stand a chance at making poverty history. But, as long as the top 2% of people control 98% of money and resources of this country, the bottom 98% of people will continue to lose their meger 2% of money and resources.

Answer 6

Of course there are some people homeless because of bad luck, but most eventually find work and move on. Then there are the others who actually prefer to live the way they do and cannot be helped. NYC had (maybe still does) a plan where the homeless were given apartments, but they refused to stay in them! I wouldn't worry about them, they will always be here and always in cities that have liberal hand-outs.

Answer 7

There is a very large and growing segment of our population called "the working poor". These people are living on minimum wages from paycheck to paycheck with no health benefits no sick time and no vacation time. You don't work you don't get paid. With this pitiful salary you pay for food, rent, utilities, clothes, transportation, etc. If just 1 thing happens such as getting sick you're done because you lose a days pay. Usually that begins a downward spiral and you and your family are possibly the next homeless statistic in the wonderful country we call America. That's just 1 scenerio and It can happen to almost all of us.

Answer 8

First, it is a good idea to understand why they are homeless.
There are many different reasons, many related to family relations. Many related to a persons self image.

I have never been homeless. I have only had to sleep outside a few times. There have been many people who have invited me into their homes. Even welfare was available to me at one time to help provide for my needs.

I believe it is the family relations and emotional trauma that cause people to end up homeless. Because so many people apply for welfare, it is hard to get started, and even harder to get of welfare.

I have always found that if I was willing to work, I could get food and accomodation. Glad that I did not have to go through the depression when there was no work.

We are truly blessed in North America. Now it is the emotional trauma that many people suffer. Sometimes the result is they become homeless. Sometimes they make decisions that have bad effects.

Answer 9

Start rolling back all of the money we donate to foreign countries in aid (much of which goes to corrupt politicians anyway), and use that money to build centers to educate, house, and train the homeless in America to do useful work, so they can earn a living on their own.
For example, we give $15B a year to Israel, which is not an impoverished country. For what? So they can build settlements on land that is not theirs? Then the Arab world hates us becuase of that. Makes no sense.

Answer 10

Most people are homeless in America because of lack of employment. I'd say to get them working somehow.

Answer 11

share what you have no matter if it's you last; but some ppl don't know how to do for themselves like the grown ppl who are homeless if they can beg for change, food who can they beg for soap, shelter or a job. i don't get that, a grown person should always know how to make a way cause they wasn't born into poverty they chose that life, drugs, liquor or all the other life threatening dangers.

but share it's healthy.