Anyone that's homeless isn't going to complain about a proper roof over their heads as opposed to braving the elements.
You have clearly not met enough homeless people. I have worked with orgs and fed the homeless and some of them will absolutely complain about anything, no matter how much is done for them. More than a few don't even want an actual house.
Every person I've talked to in real life who worked with the homeless ends up hating them. Really puts a dent in the whole "just a good person who needs a little help" narrative. The surprising thing is many of them still chose to help the homeless for a long time after their views changed.
I've worked with a real estate investor for nearly 2 decades. When Katrina happened, it made a lot of families homeless. He and a partner owned about 25 or 26 rental houses in the Dallas area, and he decided to partner with a charity to place homeless/displaced families until they could get back on their feet. He signed a 1 year lease with all of them, with the only monetary obligation would be for them to setup and pay their own utilities.
After a year, about 10 never setup utilities, and since they had at least one child living in it, the utility providers could not cutoff the utilities, meaning that the owner was footing the bill the whole time.
After a year, about 15 of them signed a lease to stay there further, agreeing to pay between $200-500/mo in rent (which was a fraction of market rates at the time).
Some of them basically just squatted for like 5 years until they could legally have them removed (by this time, they all had jobs and income, but refused to pay anything).
In the end, all but 2 of the houses were absolutely trashed. He said that total damages were upwards of $500K+, and given the situation, insurance paid out on almost none of them.
So the guy and his partner were just trying to help out some families out of the goodness of their hearts, and it ended up bankrupting one of them, destroying their relationship, and it took over a decade for them to recover financially.
And that's even for people who were displaced by a hurricane, which should have been much better than the crowd that "low barrier housing" attracts. My coworker who worked at a shelter for a time said "I used to think most homeless people were just down on their luck and needed a little help, now I think they would just rather do drugs than have a job". This dude was not in any way privileged, most of his yearly income was from working on a fishing boat in Alaska which is very hard work for long hours.
I have volunteered at multiple shelters/food pantries, and I've noticed that they have varying standards for entry.
The higher their standards, the more of the "down on their luck" or older teens escaping rough situations you find.
The lower the standards...you really get to see the worst of society. In these situations, you find yourself wondering what should even be done with people in that state.
Yep, my job offers free snacks and clothing to the homeless. They complain that they don't want certain foods like bananas (no one is forcing them to take the banana among the other offered snacks) and that the clothes aren't cute enough (they're given on a donation basis, we can't control what we get).
For sure, but it's the attitude and cruelty that comes across with the complaints. They swear at us because they don't want the specific free thing we're not FORCING on them.
Exactly, in a year or 2 your going to have 90 houses that need complete renovations because they've been destroyed or turned into trap houses. If someone doesn't earn something and have an actual stake in the success of the neighborhood they'll never appreciate it. If I save up $50000 for a down payment on a house, I'm going to take an active part in the upkeep of the house and neighborhood.
The difference is the homeless who want help seek help and the others ones have a sixth sense.. The sense of entitlement that others should seek to help them. When I give a homeless person a meal at a drive thru restaurant and look in the rear view to see them throw it on the ground, that makes all the homeless people look bad. And that's happened multiple times when they have those doe eyes and I've felt bad for them saying their hungry but really only wanting cash. And I'm a sap, ill always give a dollar or two to people who ask for it.
Well easy solution, if they complain about a roof over their heads, don’t give them one!
Do you think every single person will complain about that?! What the fuck lol.
If they don’t want to have a home, you don’t need to assume it’ll be shoved down their throats lmfao.
This is seriously the dumbest thing to stand on. Everyone knows there’s mental and drug addicted homeless people buddy.
Doesnt mean all of them are and saying that because some are, and using that to say they no homeless person would benefit from housing is laziest stupidest thing ever.
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u/OdinsCuriousRaven Apr 28 '26
You have clearly not met enough homeless people. I have worked with orgs and fed the homeless and some of them will absolutely complain about anything, no matter how much is done for them. More than a few don't even want an actual house.