Ending Chronic Homelessness

[jeffster]

For added fun (slightly unrelated), check out how the complete tolerance to anti-social behaviour is driving people away from public transit and into cars.

This could have its own thread. It really could. There are reason that some of us folks won't take transit. My kid was sexually assaulted on public transit, no way in hell she's ever getting on a bus or other public transit again, and sadly, this is very common.

As for the rest, as you said, there is no real answer. The big issue with homelessness is that some people simply don't want to be helped, or simply can't be helped. Public safety though always has to be a priority. People like Dan, or I can even include myself, know how to deal with sketchy situations. However, not everyone can -- and others need to realize that. Many (not all) in the homeless community don't want to live by any set of rules, and rules that as a whole population, we have to live by. Add in this addiction to drugs/alcohol, mental illness, etc., and you have a perfect storm that is really unfixable.