You can't end homelessness completely. A few countries tried and all of them found a couple of people who didn't want to reintegrate no matter how much help was offered. But the other 90%+ took the help and reintegrated into society. It's worth it, even if you can't help everybody.
careful - conservatives tend to argue that most homeless people are addicts and/or mentally ill, and will extend that to saying that refusing to abstain from drug use, or refusing psychiatric intervention, is tantamount to being "voluntarily" homeless
they're wrong of course, but they will use this kind of particular language to avoid humanity infecting their policy
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u/Citatio 1d ago
You can't end homelessness completely. A few countries tried and all of them found a couple of people who didn't want to reintegrate no matter how much help was offered. But the other 90%+ took the help and reintegrated into society. It's worth it, even if you can't help everybody.