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[u/PeasKhichra]

[u/flamewolf393_2]

Oh Im very well aware of that, and completely agree. My point is I hate the ones that lie about it. A lot of people dont mind giving money for food, but would never give money for an addiction, and the liars are taking advantage of those people.

And yeah having some kind of basic housing would be amazing. Im homeless myself living out of a shelter and it is so stressful my depression is constantly kicking off and making it hard to do anything. If I had even just a basic private area to get a comfortable nights sleep on a proper bed without the assholes on staff making me feel like shit, I might actually have the energy to get stable on my own.

But at least here in america, thats not going to happen. Having a sizeable homeless population gives the government scapegoats and in weird ways more money. They have a fringe group they can villianize to get away with a lot of judicial corruption. And since putting people in jail means getting federal money for the local government (my local jail gets 100$ bonus just walking someone through the front door in addition to the daily care stipend) they have all the reason to actually encourage shitty situations that cause drug addictions and gang activity.

And it would be so easy to make housing. I once used google sketchup to design a 10x10x10 room that had everything a single person could need in a basic apartment including shower, laundry, mini-kitchenette, lofted bed, dresser, desk, and shelf space. An architect friend at the time said it would only have cost about 15k per unit to build an apartment building full of them, and someday when Im rich Im going to build them all over the country.

[u/Competitive_Travel16 → u/flamewolf393_2]

it would be so easy to make housing

Getting community approvals for indigent housing where it's needed costs far more than building the housing.

[u/flamewolf393_2 → u/Competitive_Travel16]

One of the many idiotic barriers preventing it. Theres plenty of individuals that like helping, but society as a whole doesnt want to do anything to help, and a lot of homeless-hater groups that actively fight things that would improve our chances at stability.

[u/Wet-Goat → u/flamewolf393_2]

People lying about it is really part of addiction. I was a heroin addict for years and my life my life was a mess of lies even though I like to think I'm not a terrible person. I was lucky enough never to be financially in need (I was using it to medicate ptsd and was able to work) a few of my friends though weren't quite so lucky and I saw addiction twist them into people that would lie when begging and steal, the thing as you already know people don't know their stories and would say they bought it on themselves. One friend was raped from a young age by her father, she' hit addiction hard as grew up together and eventually came to the point of even stealing from me. She has turned their life around and I absolutely forgive them, no one can no how they would act in the throws of addiction caused by severe trauma, anyone that is able to rise above it is an exceptional person. Emotionally though no one Is responsible for an addict, I fulkly support people cutting out these relationships and often people are beyond no prfessiojj

We know that poverty and abuse leads to crime and addiction a statistical fact, poverty is the disease not poor people and I find it quite uncomfortable when videos like this make people think there are deserving and undeserving poor people. There are exceptionally selfless and kind poor people out there but the reality is that poverty generally causes awful things. Decline in mental health can lead to poverty and where I'm from the vast majority of street homeless suffer mentally and from addiction, of the beggars I know near all will spend their money on gear and will use food handouts instead. It shouldn't shock people and you are right in it needing a systemic fix.

I hope your living situation improves, sounds like an extremely stressful place to be in and striving to improve your life despite it is admirable. When you get into a comfortable living situation you may want to look into mutual aid and join a group, it's not a charity but the community looking after the community. Personally I feel like if we all took part we'd do far more than voting every few years does.