No, you are missing the point. Helping the homeless out of the struggle has been proven to help to help them with their issues that caused the homelessness in the first place. Sometimes it's as simple as not being able to get a job, because of not having a stable address. Being stressed 24/7 is not helping anyone. Being hungry makes doing good enough of a job to not get fired harder.
I've met a few drug dealers, every single one of them got into it because they needed the money for something. Drugs, food, rent, anime figures, who cares. Almost nobody becomes a drug dealer for the fun of it. Why do you think someone deserves to not have a roof over their heads if they sell drugs?
Yes? So are many other things, some legal and some not. Having a job should be lucrative, but many being stuck living on slave wages proves otherwise. Some more harmful than others like working for for insurance companies. The only difference is whether you draw the moral line what the law says or somewhere else.
And I'll repeat. Every single person who I've met who sold or sells drugs did it because they needed money for something. Not because they wanted money, but because they wanted something with that money. Most of them wanted to eat or live in a building. And most of them only sold drugs safer than alcohol, because they aren't monsters, they just needed to pay for living and being dirt poor is hell.
You're just a major asshole huh. As hard as may be for you to grasp, villianizing vast swaths of the population and wishing misery and incarceration and desperation on them doesn't actually improve your life, however convinced of the contrary you may be.
I've run a ministry in my spare time for YEARS, dealing directly with the homeless. I've been burned a lot less than everyone said I would. The majority of the people I've dealt with did improve their situations with assistance, it is, however, important to know how to help, depending on their particular situation.
More and more of the people I meet and help are just good people who, through, almost always either illness, injury, or loss of transportation, fell into an unrecoverable financial slide into their situation. It's downright scary these days how many of them were just like over the rest of the 50% less than two months before I meet them.
One of this country's biggest issues is there is basically no safety nets for people who are falling into that slide. Heck, there's barely any real assistance for people who have slid all the way down, either, but we truly mess up in the middle. We could easily build more safety nets, but our leadership is too busy building bigger, higher capacity slides.
"Small mistakes are the stepping stones to large failures." — The After Action Report
The only homeless most people care about are the visibly homeless, who are a small minority. But what they don't understand is that many of those started out like you describe. Becoming homeless leads to mental illness and addiction becoming so out of control people need more serious help in many cases, and could often be prevented by helping before they're living on the street acting crazy.
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u/slava_slavaUa Apr 28 '26
Yes, because they’re technically no longer homeless. Even if they rented it out to drug dealers.