People who are sympathetic to folks facing homelessness challenges are sympathetic from a distance.

If you take that challenge and place it next door to them, the sympathy erodes and can be replaced with "get these ----------- out of my neighborhood."

So, if you want support for the necessary resources to combat homelessness....don't place the homeless next door to those folks.

"conform to the materialistic crap"

Nice house in a nice safe neighborhood that keeps its value?

call me a conformist them....

-No socioeconomic class is immune from homelessness. Just FYI.

well....I'm not immune from an STD......but I'm still not going to get one so I'm not sure "immune" is a relevant term to use in this context.

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calm down. I'm not going to re-write what I already posted so that you and your 4th grade education can understand it.

I don't see it being about blame.

It's about where you place them.

-Trumpers place them in the rear view mirror as quickly as possible.

So would you if your city placed them next to you........unless you live in a slum already.

But you can stop with the holier than thou routine anytime.

Americans can have sympathy for the homeless, support politicians who want to help the homeless, and can still object to living next door to them.

Homelessness is not a technical problem. It's not a leaky pipe you call a plumber and it's fixed.

It's a constant adaptive challenge.

I've served on a couple boards of non-profits who provided housing to folks who are homeless. You're dealing with abusive relationships, drug/alcohol abuse, mental health issues, etc.

Those all complicate the solutions to the overall problem of homelessness.

-Not all concern for others is a routine,

that's a strange assertion on an anonymous blog but I don't disagree with you.

But you can have concern for others.......and many folks genuinely do.....but they still don't want homeless folks living next door to them.

-What's considered classy when you're rich, but trash when you're poor?

orgies

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Do you or do you not want to live next door to the homeless?

-Reading someone's posts for 20 years hardly renders them completely anonymous.

Yes, it does.

You're as anonymous to me as you were 20 years ago.

-Unless the homeless are living next door in a sleeping bag, wouldn't "living next door" mean they not homeless?

I believe the assumption was the practice of acquiring homes for the purposes of temporary housing of homeless folks.

-It's about raising the minimum wage to a living wage.

show me where raising the minimum wage has taken a bite out of homelessness. Many cities have increased their minimum wage. Any data from that to validate your point?

Without looking I'll bet the cities with the highest minimum wage also have the largest amounts of homeless folks.

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Kansas, not Utah.

but you're right.....no chance of it happening to me.

Perhaps the premise if flawed but I hear these stories from California where homeless folks are wandering around very nice neighborhoods and the residents are naturally fighting to get them out of there.

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Over time, I've learned more about your alias (to borrow an overused term by Lamplighter)....but you're still anonymous.

-Very nice neighborhoods across the country have local police forces keeping the riffraff outta town.

I don't live there so I'm going to die on that hill. The politics of this is everywhere.

-What's apparent is Eberly has a very apathetic attitude towards homelessness.

I'm not apathetic....don't hold back.

I WANT homelessness. More and more of it.

The more there is the richer I feel.

I love the cruelty of it all. It gets me hard.

gotta run. Need to run to Walmart and curse at the homeless guy on the corner on the way out. Teach my kids how to treat those ------- mooches.

-the Jayhawks, and all!

We're Wildcat fans.

-I'm not sure if this sentence is missing the word "not"

Yes, it was. I was in a hurry to get going.

"America doesn't do that
Because America is broken
Because America is full of the morally bankrupt"

America does do a lot of that.....it's just never enough.

You make it sound like if we just printed a bunch of money and throw it at a problem then POOF! problem solved.

it does not work that way. I'm sorry simple minded dolts who drag hatred and discontent around in your hearts can never understand it.

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Listen you little twerp. I HELP in my community. I directly provide help to folks who need the kind of assistance to keep them from being homeless.

I roll up my sleeve and HELP them and keep them from being homeless.

With my time, my talent, and my treasure.

You sit at home smoking weed all ------- day passing judgement on me is just the perfect example of what ------- moron you are.

You can go sit in corner and wipe the blood of your face now.

-Can Bill be any more of a repulsive person?

Not for that comment. For asking Laura about being disowned by her family? That was pretty harsh.

But technically, Laura is wrong. I'm not one medical bill away from being homeless and neither are most of us here.

Do we have exposure to real financial problems and our lives themselves? yes....but I'm not at risk for being homeless from "one medical bill".

-I'm not psychic tho', your Persona HERE is that of a Contrarian -------.

Leave the psychic work to me. LOL

-When he's not trolling on the DR, he's donating all his money to charity and spooning out soup for homeless people.

sometimes I do that stuff WHILE trolling on the DR.

You understand the term "troll" has no significance, right?

when you look in the mirror, you see a troll. Everyone here is a troll or at least fits the definition of one.

Everyone. Not with every post, but everyone does it.

-He's just playing devils advocate when he says nothing can be done about homelessness,

I'm telling what we are doing now and what we have been doing. You act like you're completely unaware of those efforts.

You are praying for a solution that isn't coming. Not ever.

We aren't going to pay poor people to stop being poor.

We didn't use to do much of anything....but in the last century or so we've started this....

Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
Free and reduced lunches
welfare, WIC, SNAP, etc
housing assistance
Projects (yes, "projects" were a solution to homeless issues)
Grants given to non-profits to operate food banks, health care clinics, clothing, etc.

And tons and tons of more help has been done at local levels all throughout this country.

-Liberals destroyed the extended nuclear family

They didn't, really.

But they were dumb enough to take credit for it.

"I'm not the one who voted for Trump three times"

Neither did I, but it's not a get out of jail free card. Why do folks pretend it is?

That's not a defense for getting something wrong or outright misunderstanding how things work and a display of ignorance.

Not saying that to you specifically, but it's clear there is a culture here that believes their vote (if they even bother to vote) represents some sort of permission slip to be a ------- moron on issues.

-Liberals have boundary problems.

I doubt that's specific to liberals. Once upon a time here we had some rather aggressive conservatives who would have raked you over the coals.

Staunch liberals and conservatives both believe they are better people because of their political beliefs and/or membership in a specific party.

It's laughable.

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And the kids. I've seen kids get drug into ----......when the kids weren't even part of the discussion or issue.

Hell, one poster here called my daughters -----.......LOL.

Good times.....

"forced her to marry you"

I keep seeing that so I'll bite.....WTF are you talking about? How did a homo force a woman to marry her?

"Move on fellas."

Right after Clown tells me how Bill forced this woman to marry him?

reminds me of this scene in MASH...

Frank "She trapped me"

Hotlips "She trapped you? How?"

Frank "She told me she liked me"

-Are you using your personal status to claim that a large portion of the population is NOT just one significant setback away from homelessness?

no. Laura was talking in absolutes. I completely agree with you on your point.

Sometimes I think UBI would just be easier than what we have now to support folks but I wouldn't support UBI because I believe technology (AI) is going to render us all worthless.

that was the prediction 40 years ago. New technologies generate new industries which generates new jobs.