The homeless

The top 3 reasons for homelessness in America are 1. Lack of affordable housing (many of the homeless work at jobs) 2. Unemployment, and 3 Mental illness. Nearly 25% of the homeless in America are mentally ill and unemployable. Most have no one to care for them, and with public facilities stretched thin due to COVID the problem is getting worse. Tell this to the typical conservative and you'll get the customary eye roll, followed by a few comments about "being too lazy to work" With so much wealth concentrated in the hands of so few in America, perhaps it's time to stop lying to ourselves about how much the super-rich pay in taxes, start closing the multitude of tax loopholes the rich have taken advantage of, and compel these multi billionaires to contribute to the communities they've taken so much out of.



https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hcht/blog/homelessness-and-mental-health-facts

@mchill said
The top 3 reasons for homelessness in America are 1. Lack of affordable housing (many of the homeless work at jobs) 2. Unemployment, and 3 Mental illness. Nearly 25% of the homeless in America are mentally ill and unemployable. Most have no one to care for them, and with public facilities stretched thin due to COVID the problem is getting worse. Tell this to the typical conser ...[text shortened]... so much out of.



https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hcht/blog/homelessness-and-mental-health-facts

@jimm619 said
In a previous post I lamented the fact
that a large percentage of homeless are
mentally ill. I also pointed out how Ronald Reagan
destroyed the few safety nets that did exist for
mentally ill, indigent people.
https://igeek.com/Reagan_emptied_mental_institutions_and_caused_homeless_crisis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364434/

@moonbus said
I know someone who works in the US women’s prison system. She says a lot of the women who are incarcerated belong in mental institutions instead. They are not getting the help they need.

@jimm619 said
Very true, prisons have replaced
asylums as warehouses for the mentally ill.
Needless to say, they receive no care and when
they're released where do they go.......???.
.......................................the title of this thread.

@moonbus said
It's an avoidable tragedy.

@kevcvs57

That really sums up the paradox which is America: they put tourists into space, but they can't take care of the homeless sick and injured.

@moonbus said
@kevcvs57

That really sums up the paradox which is America: they put tourists into space, but they can't take care of the homeless sick and injured.

@mchill said
The top 3 reasons for homelessness in America are 1. Lack of affordable housing (many of the homeless work at jobs) 2. Unemployment, and 3 Mental illness. Nearly 25% of the homeless in America are mentally ill and unemployable. Most have no one to care for them, and with public facilities stretched thin due to COVID the problem is getting worse. Tell this to the typical conser ...[text shortened]... so much out of.



https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hcht/blog/homelessness-and-mental-health-facts

@contenchess said
I agree 👍

Jobs need to be created...not eliminated.
Apartment buildings/High Rises with smaller affordable units need to be built.

...and put the mental patients back into facilities.

@mchill - said "... perhaps it's time to stop lying to ourselves about how much the super-rich pay in taxes, start closing the multitude of tax loopholes the rich have taken advantage of... "

I have been saying in here for a long while, those loopholes in the law that you speak of
are not going to be closed any too soon. I think they are of deliberate design. Wanna see??

Tesla to Pay $0 in Federal Tax Despite Record $5.5 Billion Profit in 2021

*your people*, mchill, control the house, the senate, and the executive and have for the last year.
Do you hear any politician vowing to fix these tax law loopholes? No. Nor will you.



https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/02/14/tesla-to-pay-0-in-federal-tax-despite-record-5-5-billion-profit-in-2021/

Govt should, and could, have one program, supporting the truly desperate. Abut 40 million people, not including the many illegals. And not the losers who infiltrate the real homeless street people.
Everyone else, get a job and (ouch) support themselves.

@averagejoe1 said
Govt should, and could, have one program, supporting the truly desperate. Abut 40 million people, not including the many illegals. And not the losers who infiltrate the real homeless street people.
Everyone else, get a job and (ouch) support themselves.

@mchill said
The top 3 reasons for homelessness in America are 1. Lack of affordable housing (many of the homeless work at jobs) 2. Unemployment, and 3 Mental illness. Nearly 25% of the homeless in America are mentally ill and unemployable. Most have no one to care for them, and with public facilities stretched thin due to COVID the problem is getting worse. Tell this to the typical conser ...[text shortened]... so much out of.



https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hcht/blog/homelessness-and-mental-health-facts

@mott-the-hoople said
“ The top 3 reasons for homelessness in America are 1. Lack of affordable housing (many of the homeless work at jobs)”

where are all these illegals invading our country living at? surely they are not taking a home that a poor citizen could be living in.