is it fair that there are homeless people living on the streets?

Question

in this country homeless people are not looked after why cant money be spent on dealing with the problem rather than on immigration and such

Answer 1

i dont think so because everybody should have clothes an fresh food n water to eat and drink. Nobody should be left on the streets

Answer 2

There are the persecuted and the persecutors in any country. The government are generally the persecutors.

How do you know there are homeless people living on the streets? Do you live on the streets with them?

If you do not, then perhaps you are being fooled by an illusion.

I certainly have never seen any homeless people living on the streets. They use tents, campervans and caravans around here. Many of the homeless take children to live in these caravans and tents.

I have seen people dressed in dirty clothing, begging for money on the streets. However, this is usually outside big financial institutions and main city centres.

I have also seen people selling magazines for £1, who are registered with the Big Issue as homeless or recently housed.

It is not fair, when the government gives so much to an elite few, and so little to those that live on the streets. It is especially not fair when those it does give so much to, have not earned any right to those government handouts.

Given it is not fair, what are you going to do about it?

Answer 3

This is a tough question. But first you need to realize that the homeless population grew when the mentally ill were institutionalized. Everyone hated the institutions and thought they were doing the right thing by getting rid of them. Unfortunately (but as usual) there was not a follow up plan to help these individuals be independent. Many ended up homeless, unmedicated, and still mentally ill. Many also HATE shelters and often for good reason. In the shelters, their possessions are stolen and they are abused. The reason in my opinion that they are ignored is, they are a) mostly unseen as they do not live in the suburbs or "nice" city areas b) as many people here seem to think, the homeless themselves are blamed for their situation. The reason money isn't spent on them is because they don't vote and most voters don't care here to make it a voting issue.

Answer 4

no its not.

i went to london the other day, and driving down the north circular we saw so many houses boarded up. now i have no idea why or how many people there are homeless in london but why r those houses not being utilised for housing, even if its only temporary, so people can get an address for jobs?

i realise that there are people out there who would rather be homeless than go back home and face whatever drove them away in the first place, but we live in a rural town and we have recently gained an immigrant big issue seller who cannot speak a word of english....if she has no where to go, then why is she here? i thought the big issue was to help homeless people but from the gossip she has a flat up the top of town!

Answer 5

Of course it's not fair.

Money isn't spent on homelessness because the majority of people who have control of the money believe that homelessness is a 'choice' and a homeless person is 'just lazy'. 'Dealing with the problem' in most areas means moving the 'problem' somewhere out of sight.

Anyone can become homeless; I have been. It's not a choice, it's a combination of circumstances.
. When you're living on the street, you're officially invisible; the only people who acknowledge your existence are the few kind souls who offer food or money, and the beat officers who move you on.

Answer 6

It´s not fair that there homeless people in America. and many of them didnt choose that situation. They are immigrants escaping hunger and torture back home or people who can´t get a job because they live on the street or they dont have fair skin.
I think the Government should help them and organize social. inclusion programs:This doesn´t mena that we can´t help Africa. America is such a prosperous nation! Why don´t we help the poor instead of creating wars out there??

Answer 7

I see your point but then I always wonder why there are so many homeless people in the first place. I got kicked out of home soon as I turned 16 and was housed by the council immediately (all be it in a grotty bedsit but better than the streets) this service is available to everyone in this country so I really don't understand how it happens. I think the only people who have an excuse are vulnerable kids who have been abused and run away from home and don't understand that there are services out there to help them.

Answer 8

I disagree with most of the comments on here, people saying that being homeless is their own fault. For example a homeless boy i once worked with had previously lived with his mother, in a rented house but she left him.. literally left him, he was at school ready to take his GCSE's, but dropped out of school, he had no-one to turn to, so social services housed him in a residential home, he hated it, so he ran away, he then ended up living on the *streets, and befriending drug addicts as these were the only people that he could talk to. He was just a young boy that slipped through the system, and being homeless certainly wasn't his fault, some people need to take off their blinkers and open their eyes! I think alot of the time, homeless people are so as a result of 'red tape' that exists within certain government bodies for example social services, there is a limit to what social service workers etc can do because of rules/regulations etc, and this is fault of the government, as it isn't seen as an important issue. There is the housing organisation that houses homeless people, but houses are limited and they concentrate first on housing families rather than singles. However i wouldn't shift the blame onto 'immigrants' as 70% of the time these are vulnerable people caught up in a situation as well.

*Having no set home, sleeping on floors etc.

Answer 9

Especially when so many are driving around in $100,000 cars, living in $5,000,000 homes. I really don't know how such people live with themselves as they pass by people who have NOTHING! I see a lot of responses claiming that most homeless have only themselves to blame, and this simply is not true. Many, many people are only one or two paychecks from homelessness themselves. Maybe even you.

Answer 10

It is not fair. Out country can send so much money and help to other countries before helping the people here at home in our own country first.
It is a sad thing that other countries come first before our own people. Also, lots of those homeless people are veterans who fought for this country.
It stinks and is wrong that anyone in the USA should do without shelter over their heads, food in their bellies and insurance to cover health care.
Our government is not looking out for "we...the people..."our"" best interests, but those high up in governments best interests.
Very sad.

be cool...

Answer 11

Homeless people are a plight, simple as that, a system is already in place to deal with genuine homeless folk. And your right, I would rather see my taxes housing unfortunate Brits, but a line must be drawn somewhere. After all a vast majority of them don't need to be homeless, but we live in a touchy feely country these days, with organisations sprouting up all over the show dealing with "addicts" (hate that term), homeless people and others. Some are just happy with a night under the stars.

AFTER NOTE: I'm with Dunk, least that's two of us with an ounce of common sense.....oops three included Roo