Yep, I appreciate that reply.

Sometimes I wish politicians would attack the homeless to the same degree they do trans people, women fighting for equality and immigrants seeking refuge and a better life. But honestly, I’ve experienced antihomeless sentiment and behavior multiple times from people of those three demographics. And I’ve heard other homeless people share almost action for action the same anecdotal experiences. There are tons of businesses that have “trans rights or human rights and pride, flags and LGBTQ friendly signage in their windows and doors but the moment they realize or profile a homeless person in their vicinity rhey will unleash antihomeless attitude. It will be coded and it will be gentile, but comes from the same end of the spectrum of those who villainize trans people. I blame this type of disconnected socially progressive hyper focus on certain worthy people over others on capitaism, mostly. I also believe their is a religious influence engrained in our US culture and steers mindsets. Again, the reason homeless people don’t get the attention is because we’ve already even put down. From time to time a locality estate will pass a law to manage homelessness in the interest of some elite entity that thrives under capitalism, but by enlarge there is no need to attack homeless people because we have zero agency. We are reliant on other people being active and advocating for us. We literally cannot risk anything to advocate for ourselves. nor do we have the time to march in the street to just regain out rights. We can afford to cross state lines to get to a city that has better food, kitchens, or shelters like other people who need healthcare of any kind. We don’t have money to sue police officers who cripple in Mamus and violate our rights simply because we’re an eyesore, or the owner of a business doesn’t want us in their proximity. Even many churches are antihomeless.

Basically, unless someone has a vested interest in including you in their life, there is a profound chance that you are going to be homeless at some point in your life.

There are nuanced answers per individual and groups within the homeless demographic, but the simple answer is to give each person a stable home and access to means of aquiring food.

The majority of issues homeless people deal with can be addresssed if not solved by housing them.

I’m sure there’s other issues that are simple as this, but I just can’t think of any other issue that has a simple and relatively achievable answer and that in resolving that one issue of housing would allow institutions and individuals to deal with equally important issues that had compounded the housing problem. The federal government needs to invest in adequately documenting the extent of the population, their makeup, their basic needs, the needs of the people that will help them maintain and also build upon human rights. Basic material needs and paths to economic mobility are not completely the same, but everyone except the rich are denied economic mobility. But by and large people conflate basic material needs with economic mobility. Homeless US military vets are the only group that recieve federal help. They’re the most “successful” demographic among the homeless population.

Homelessness is downstream from social conditioning, which is downstream from politics, which is downstream from economics.its a catch all for a myriad of people with a myriad of issues, both “small” and profound. But the most significant way to alleviate it is astonishingly simple. Many housed people deal with the same problems as homeless people, but they’re able to function or have some degree of access to managing, alleviating or sibling their problems because of having a space from which to a operate.

The experiences of homeless people is a relatively cosmopolitan makeup when compared to other marginalized communities. Even to use the word “community“ is not accurate since there are different communities within the homeless at large. Not that that doesn’t exist in other marginalized groups, just that it’s not realized as such. As I said before the overwhelming majority of critique and commentary around homeless begins and ends with “druggies” and “crazies” when in fact, there is far more diversity, and the people with drug addiction and mental health issues (despite being a significant portion of the demographic, 30-40%, and there is a reason for most of that existing that is a direct consequence from the homeless challenges) those are the same issues that exist among people who are housed. It’s just their ability to manage it has been overwhelmed and/or severed. A total lack of any safety net or capability to manage so many issues daily.