altonin:

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altonin:

if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

I don’t remember the exact statistic but a huge portion of homeless people have a mental illness. Make mental healthcare affordable and accessible

About 1/3 of homeless people suffer from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or schizoaffective disorder according to the Treatment and Advocacy Center.

the way that OP talks about homeless people honestly sucks. i agree with their commentary on unconditional housing, but this bit really rubbed me the wrong way:

“most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless.”

when you remember that a large portion of the homeless population consists of people who are mentally ill, disabled, drug addicts, and/or victims of domestic abuse, this commentary becomes extremely ugly. it frames people as lazy for doing “jack shit” instead of acknowledging some people CANNOT function in society the way they’re expected to. “working through the issues” is not possible for everyone and they are not selfish or lesser for it.

it also frames most homeless people as bad people and makes it sound okay to say “i don’t like most homeless people.” i’ve no doubt that there are homeless people who are just assholes, just like with any group of people, but saying that “most” are not likable when you consider, again, mental illness, addiction, etc. is bigoted as hell.

Lmao I am literally talking as someone who was street homeless and who fits many of the mental ex abuse boxes and I’m so completely uninterested in this dumb obsession with pretending homeless people are all going to be sympathetic protagonists you can id with, when they certainly aren’t and I certainly wasn’t. The right wants to pretend 0.01% of homeless people are virtuous, you want to pretend 100% are, I am saying virtue is totally irrelevant, and support for homeless services absolutely must be predicated on something other than sympathy, which is extraordinarily fickle

I’m sorry but long term street homeless guys are usually total tossers and are only so visible bc they alienate every regular sleeping spot in their locality, are immediately id’d as troublemakers. They are often totally irredeemable wankers and I’m going to double down on that bc it’s true lol. They still deserve services. I want to be absolutely clear that there is no warm and fuzzy reward for you when you help the homeless, little heartwarming gratitude, and I’m tired of ppl trying to whitewash homelessness and pretend it’s all softly weeping unfortunates. That is the reason I use the language I do. I want you to be someone who supports services for a homeless person even when you quite rightly fucking hate them bc they happen to be the fucking worst (which is more likely than the baseline bc homelessness kind of sucks and brings out the worst traits in everyone, as does mental illness, as does addiction)


And like honestly if you find my op harsh you literally wouldn’t last like ten seconds among homeless or even ex-homeless ppl bc shocker we tend to be problematic lmao

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