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Does anyone have an explanation for the increase in the homeless?
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:28 pm
I’m really curious what y’all think has caused this epidemic of homeless Americans.
I live in the KC metro probably 35 miles from the core downtown. Before the “great recession” you had to go into the core city to see homeless people now they’re in the burbs working many of the major intersections. I’m baffled on what’s changed, plenty of job openings across all sectors of the economy and we have more panhandlers than before the “Great Recession”. Is this increased homelessness just a problem in KC or is it like this in every major city?
I live in the KC metro probably 35 miles from the core downtown. Before the “great recession” you had to go into the core city to see homeless people now they’re in the burbs working many of the major intersections. I’m baffled on what’s changed, plenty of job openings across all sectors of the economy and we have more panhandlers than before the “Great Recession”. Is this increased homelessness just a problem in KC or is it like this in every major city?
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Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:29 pm to Bass Tiger
Heroin
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:29 pm to Bass Tiger
Abandoning thousands of vets with PTSD and other issues doesn't help.
That's not even a political statement. Both parties are guilty.
That's not even a political statement. Both parties are guilty.
This post was edited on 5/17/19 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:29 pm to Bass Tiger
Democrats.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:30 pm to Bass Tiger
quote:
I’m really curious what y’all think has caused this epidemic of homeless Americans.
Changing the name from derelict or bum
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:30 pm to Bass Tiger
How many of them speak English?
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:31 pm to Bass Tiger
quote:Aggregation (and panhandling scamming) rather than increases.
Does anyone have an explanation for the increase in the homeless?
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:32 pm to Bass Tiger
Gutting of manufacturing jobs in country, blue collar jobs, along with Easy access to opioids.
It’s more complicated than that but I know it has played a huge role.
It’s more complicated than that but I know it has played a huge role.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:32 pm to Bass Tiger
Opioids
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:33 pm to Crimson Wraith
In Portland they all speak English and are 80% white. Terrible people - I wish anyone homeless for more than a year could be humanely euthanized.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:33 pm to Bass Tiger
100,000 new illegal immigrants a month are hurting the poor most of all.
This post was edited on 5/17/19 at 4:36 pm
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:33 pm to Bass Tiger
Um, don’t assume those people u see working the intersections are homeless
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:34 pm to Bass Tiger
What you are perceiving as an increase is more likely just a change in their paradigm for how to survive
And of course as we all know homeless people only get covered by the media when Republicans are president
And of course as we all know homeless people only get covered by the media when Republicans are president
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:34 pm to SirWinston
Portland, dims.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:34 pm to Bass Tiger
Drugs and illegals taking more and more low skilled jobs
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:35 pm to tankyank13
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Gutting of manufacturing jobs in country, blue collar jobs, along with Easy access to opioids.
It’s more complicated than that but I know it has played a huge role.
We've sort of killed the odd job economy, and also zoned out the whole concept of skid row type flop houses, so instead of the subset of the population that will always be sort of derelict shacking up in shanty rooms for minimal rent, they now live in tents under every overpass in basically every downtown area of the country.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:35 pm to GeauxLSUGeaux
This x1000 (or crack or meth).
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:37 pm to Bass Tiger
quote:
I’m really curious what y’all think has caused this epidemic of homeless Americans.
The last 2 administrations gutted mental health funding both for facilities and treatment while stigmatizing therapy and outright supporting mental problems as normal.
Couple that with a massive over prescription of opiods and influx of heroin and you get the problem we have now.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:37 pm to Bass Tiger
I think it has sort of become a fad again, to be sort of a hippie and bum around for a while like happened back in the 60s.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:38 pm to Bass Tiger
Addiction. If you were to blood or urine test every homeless person you see you would probably see 80%+ with some sort of drug in their system (pot, meth, opiods, etc).
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