This perfectly aligns with the stance I've come to take on homelessness as I've worked through a PhD in economics.
Easy may be too big of a word for a problem like this, but fixing homelessness is possible, with many possibilities for methods of doing so contained in this article. The issue is the actual appetite for doing it. Regardless of what people may claim. It doesn't seem to exist.
There seems to be very little sympathy for the homeless situation, despite the fact that humans claim to want to fix homelessness. When it comes time to put money where mouths are, North Americans take no action. Because homeless people often cannot (and do not if they can) vote, there is no incentive for politicians to force a solution through either. Adding this onto the fact that homeless humans are often unemployable (lack of access to sanitation, no permanent address, possible no bank account, etc.), it's not as simple as yelling at your local homeless human to go fill the vacancy at the local McDonald's. These are humans who require changes at the system level.
This perfectly aligns with the stance I've come to take on homelessness as I've worked through a PhD in economics.
Easy may be too big of a word for a problem like this, but fixing homelessness is possible, with many possibilities for methods of doing so contained in this article. The issue is the actual appetite for doing it. Regardless of what people may claim. It doesn't seem to exist.
There seems to be very little sympathy for the homeless situation, despite the fact that humans claim to want to fix homelessness. When it comes time to put money where mouths are, North Americans take no action. Because homeless people often cannot (and do not if they can) vote, there is no incentive for politicians to force a solution through either. Adding this onto the fact that homeless humans are often unemployable (lack of access to sanitation, no permanent address, possible no bank account, etc.), it's not as simple as yelling at your local homeless human to go fill the vacancy at the local McDonald's. These are humans who require changes at the system level.
Not the individual level.