re: What should we do with all the homeless people?

We’ll call it, The Homeless Games. last homeless standing gets a big cash prize

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Give them work cards that legal exempt them from minimum wages and worker's compensation insurance requirements.

That way they can at least work for a couple of bucks an hour.

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lol

They make more money begging on the street than doing that

I believe most homeless are that way due to mental handicaps, which then leads to drug abuse because the mental services are not there anymore.

Pie in the sky, if I ever won a huge jackpot, a homeless program would be something I would do.

1) Rehab them and get the sobered up, and at the same time figure out what is up mentally
2) Serve as a halfway home. Pool together corporations that allow them to work, help them manage their money and put some aside. If they start acting up they are back on the street and have to start over again.
3) If you make it through step 2, move away with a group of the "graduates" to help hold each other accountable. Visits from counselors would be mandatory and check ups would continue.

Hopefully after a while they won't need as much and can steer clear of what put them out to begin with.

Force them into the military

Only around 50k people living in Greenland. 45/47 was talking about buying it. Problem solved.

There's no "solution". The only hope we have is to reduce the number of people that choose this lifestyle going forward. Yes, most choose this via a lifetime of poor decisions.

There's all kinds of in depth videos out there documenting the issue, various solutions, ways various municipalities are dealing with it. But at the end of the day, once these people are on the streets, whether initially because of mental issues or poor life decisions, they all invariably abuse substances to cope.

These documentaries show that after years of abusing the cheap and easily accessible substances out there, their brains are rewired such that they can't possibly function in our society (job, housing, bills, etc.). Rehab rarely helps. Most just want to stay high. So the question becomes, as a society, what do we do with the current ones? Give them housing? They've tried that out West only to have all the housing ultimately destroyed. Or just continue to ignore them? And provide food and basic medical care?

I'm lucky that I live in a hgh income rural area and only see this on the rare occassion I go into the big city. It's a pickle for sure.

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Reopen mental hospitals.

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BINGO

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many of them have some kinds of addiction to drugs and alcohol but they're mainly just mentally ill.

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Chicken or the egg argument. Are they mentally cracked due to addiction or vice versa?

Once you get to a certain low it’s just lost hope so I imagine when confronted with that there is nothing you won’t do so they end up strung out and disassociated with reality. They dont see a path back to normality so they “go for broke” until death

I have said the same thing, open the evidence lockers and give them all they can carry away.

Fight club gladiator style is the only answer.