Homelessness is an industry

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What if ‘free’ needle giveaways to bums are actually a way to keep the gravy train going?

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First thing to look at in your example would be who is directly and indirectly profiting from buying the needles.... now apply it to all elements of 'curing homelessness'

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From my experience working with a joint church and city outreach program, many of the homeless folks we encountered weren't looking for long-term assistance. Most simply wanted to be left alone, with access to a safe place to stay during extreme cold for a day or two. That was our experience, although I realize it doesn't describe every person's situation.

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It’s an industry for the NGOs in between the federal government and the homeless. Pratt ran on this in his campaign, and an acquaintance I know in DC says the same thing.

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What if ‘free’ needle giveaways to bums are actually a way to keep the gravy train going?

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Assisted suicide. Population control. These taxpayer funded programs are just part of the bigger agendas of depopulation and governmental overreach.

None of us are immune. You can see that by looking at the toxic fillers used in medications that are prescribed to us for health conditions largely caused by our diets, and the same people approve the toxins and carcinogens put into the food supply that made us sick in the first place. And they want to make it illegal to raise and or harvest your own meat, and/or grow a garden of your own.

It's all spelled out for us all to see. Their overall control is at about 70-80% right now and they're going for gold.

It is a difficult issue to try to address, especially in the US, because it deals with people, mental disorders, addiction, and behavior, not just structural or institutional design failures.

The individual rights of each American make the current purely legislative approach impractical. Worse, it creates an opaque financial money pit, with many bad actors seeing an opportunity for almost unlimited graft.

We are allocating huge amounts of money at the federal, state, and local levels to "solve" a problem with no clear definition or metric for success, and a topic that tugs at people's heartstrings, so there will be almost limitless funding.

To begin to address the long-term homelessness epidemic would require accepting that we need to curtail the rights of the "unhoused" to force them to receive mental health and/or addiction treatment, and having the facilities available to forcibly house those who refuse treatment or are incapable of functioning in day-to-day society with assistance.

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It is a difficult issue to try to address, especially in the US, because

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Mostly because the left facilitates the homelessness and makes sure it thrives in order to make money off it.

This is a really prickly topic.

I don't think people that go into aid work do so to exploit the poor. However, if the poor are provided just enough to survive there is little incentive to get out of poverty. Their basic needs are met.

Similar arguments have been made about international aid. By example, no one can create a sustainable business model to produce clothing or shoes in a country like Gambia because international aid agencies dump used materials into their markets. No one wants to see the poor suffer, but I am not sure these efforts aren't counter productive. I don't have an obvious answer to this problem.

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What if ‘free’ needle giveaways to bums are actually a way to keep the gravy train going?

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That make a lot of sense... Use the HIV epidemic as a way to keep them using... Genius... instead of getting them treatment, give them needles to prevent them from dying...

The Homeless Industrial Complex

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it is spent on salaries, programs, and products.

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Awhile back, California misplaced $28billion (with a B) on homeless programs.