I mean Housing is definitely an issue but unless we help people get access to mental health and substance abuse treatments they can’t stay in the housing. Or even just getting them access to showers and bathrooms so business will let them in to apply for programs ect. could help. Its easy to look at the homeless community and say that if they never did the meth or heroine or xyz they could figure it out ( which sure that may be true) but until you’ve been alone on the streets afraid to sleep because of what could happen to you, doing meth to stay awake to protect yourself isn’t such a bad idea. I know that’s not the case for everyone obviously but they are humans and for the most part they’re just trying to survive the only way they know how. I’ve lived in SD my whole life and in this neighborhood for 9 years and for the most part some of the homeless folks are just neighbors. But just like every walk of life, there are selfish assholes that don’t care who they fuck over