Possibly, part of the reason for the homelessness explosion has to do with all of the illegals coming into this country every day. They are being housed in shelters, and now even in some schools (which have now been closed to the students of those schools), and Yahoo news is reporting that the Boston area is now requesting people to actually take illegals into their homes. If this is happening in large cities, it is probably also happening in smaller cities, and we just do not hear those reports. https://news.yahoo.com/governor-healey-asks-residents-house-101853601.html
Part of it is also due to homeless vets who are not being adequately cared for dating back at least to Vietnam.
As for me being a Navy/Vietnam Era Veteran, I would like to talk to homeless Vets and see exactly what got them there. We are very "Pro Veteran", but there are reasons they are homeless. Some reasons logical and other reasons not so logical.
I am sick and tired of hearing about Reagan and the closure of some institutions....He did so much good in his 8 yrs in CA gov, 8 yrs US President. What has been helping now that he is gone....
To forever go to Reagan on t his stuff...is nuts... We are in a Huge World RESET and business closures here in the U.S. has been going on for a long long time and with loss of business, loss of Millions of jobs....and people have no Income to make their lives work. This is a lot of the Mess... Just in my town and since covid struck, I'm thinking 20-30 businesses have closed and I'm just guessing, could be more...and all the workers in theese closed businesses, where did they go? And I'm hearing so many landlords are housing tenants who can't pay rents....and how many have gone to the streets, don't know.... And you w ho continue to blame Reagan, good lord.
I don't think the closing of the institutions was Reagan's fault at all. It was the movie, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" that got everyone interested in what goes on in the, then called, "Insane Asylums." Quite a few were poorly run and patients were mistreated, so in an attempt to make things better they threw out the baby with the bath and closed them all, dreaming that all the mentally ill needed was a good pep talk from Jack Nicholson or a "half-way house" where they could live and work in the community. That didn't work out. I don't blame Reagan for the homeless problem or any other president. In fact it annoys me that we can't talk about anything in the news without it becoming political. If the moon blew up someone would say it was the liberals fault and someone else would blame the conservatives. I stay off the politics forum but it leaks into everything.
Now, it looks like we are getting even closer to illegals being housed in people’s homes. Here is the New York city mayor, from a news announcement last summer, saying that he wants to start moving the illegals into churches or other faith-based places, and also onto people’s homes. I listened to his video, and he mentions the millions that the government has set aside for housing illegals, and he said that people who have been financially affected will be paid and have room for the illegals. I can’t see this working well, for a number of reasons. One, the illegals do not speak English, for the most part. Two, the home-owner will be having to do the cooking, laundry, and all of the housekeeping for the illegals, and basically become a housekeeper for them. And, what happens when the government stops paying for these people living there. ?
Lodge the illegal aliens with people who voted for Eric Adams. Maybe they would learn something if they actually had to live with the results of their votes.
Wow. I can see so many problems with the mayor's plan I don't know if I can type that long. First of all, as an ex church treasurer I wonder what fabulous "faith based locales" he has in mind. Joel Osteen's church may be able to handle this, but the little churches I go to can barely pay their pastor and still get the roof fixed. Who are these people who are suffering such economic challenges that they would take a stranger into their homes, but have spare rooms? If they do take in a stranger who proves to be difficult, or even dangerous, wouldn't squatter's rights keep them there, forever? No one wants to talk about the root of the problem. The U. S. population has more than doubled since the 1950's. No wonder we have problems. It's partly immigration but it's also Americans having too many children, often without even getting married first. The birth control pill became widely available in the late sixties and then the population exploded and unmarried births went from 3% to almost 50%. Just the opposite should have happened. Unmarried births should have gone down to almost zero and abortion should have become extremely rare. What happened to personal responsibility?
But, but, but.... Osteen didn't want his new carpet messed up during Hurricane Harvey. "Joel Osteen, the famed pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, is defending himself after facing criticism on social media for not offering shelter at the megachurch to victims of Hurricane Harvey. In a post on Twitter Saturday, Osteen said he was praying for those affected by the storm, which has dumped 20 to 40 inches of rain on the Houston area, with more on the way. But on Sunday, in response to requests that the church, which can hold more than 16,000 people, be opened for evacuees, Lakewood Church posted on Facebook that it is "inaccessible due to severe flooding" and directed displaced residents to shelters in the city."
I am not sure people here are having too many children, but they are having too many out of wedlock. This was encouraged by the "unintended consequences" of the War on Poverty championed by Lyndon Johnson--that paragon of virtue--that kicked adult males out of the homes receiving public assistance of any kind from the Feds. Men soon realized that their families were better off if they moved out. That progressed into a consequence-free society. Now that marriage has now been downgraded from a life-long commitment to a contract of convenience, everything has gotten worse.
Andrea, t hanks for the above and you are so wise on what has gone on.... On the movie, and I took my mom and aunt to it when it came out, and my aunt was so mad at me for taking her to it, their mother was institutionalized and it was never talked about...
To be truthful, I have little compassion for those who had a home, left it and are now homeless here. Very few of the illegals are actually here because they are a persecuted people but rather come here for the free stuff that our own homeless citizens do not get and yes, hopefully to graduate to a better life. If someone is homeless and is not a U.S. citizen, send ‘em home. Simple. It’s cheaper, it’s safer, it’s better for the economy of a city or town and there’s less crime. Alas, since Granpa Joe doesn’t have to live in a community of homeless people, his eyes see nothing but prosperity and will not lift a finger to dial up Greyhound. If we have billions to serve illegal homeless people then we have millions to send them back home.