Houses are bigger, and we’re living with others less often. Not to mention all the empty houses in the country, that for whatever reason can’t be used to house people who live outside.
Doesn’t it all seem a little weird? Here we have both a terrible homeless problem and a terrible real estate problem. Empty houses on the one hand and on the other people who have no place to live. However, the people who have no place to live have no money to pay to live (either rent or buy) in those empty houses. So the solution – to let the people live in the empty spaces – can’t work, because of the “rules” we have.
We can’t have homeless people squatting in foreclosed upon houses – that just, I don’t know, just can’t happen? Why? Because it’s not the way “it” works. Blah blah blah. And the usual argument would follow, but then everybody would want to live in their house for free, etc.
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I’m sure there’s a million reasons why not to. I guess it all comes down to the kind of society we wish to live in and how we want to relate to our fellow human beings. Am I saying it’s wrong to deny the homeless shelter in vacant homes that someone else owns? Probably not. I know that’s not how the “system” works in this or other countries. I have a vacant porch and I have yet to invite a homeless person to camp there. However, I am curious as to when and how it got to that point, where an arbitrary economic model trumps compassion and extends misery.
Much easier to talk about the parts of the story which involve doubling up or living with friends, etc. Not only is there money and energy to be saved, there’s camaraderie to be had and loneliness to be stanched. There’s more people living alone today than ever before in history (myself included). Have you ever wondered why this is, and found it odd – after all, we are social animals. Cats and dogs have certainly benefited!
If you live alone, do you think you’ll always want to? Or would you like to live with other people, especially as a single older person?
Mom is of late living by herself with me as company, She would not mind having someone else here too but has been unwilling to make a personal committment in order to do so. One gets settled in their ways and expectations, don’t you know?
However, very interesting blog with an up-to-the-moment topic. I cannot see my BOA ever doing such a thing, My IRA’s get a munificent 50 CENTS interest!! from them, after all.
One of my sisters now lives with my dad, which has made a huge difference for him since my mother died. I have thought at points here n there that it might be cool to live in a sort of gay artists’ commune, but then I talked to a guy who did who assured me I’d hate the politics. He’s probably right.
It *is* a compassionate and altruistic thought. And if there truly are homeless people whose main (or only) problem is homelessness, I think there might even be takers. But for the most part, I think most homeless people (at least those actually living out on the streets) probably have so many additional problems (mental illness, substance abuse among them) that property owners would be unwilling to take the chance. I don’t own any property but I’m going to admit that if I did, I don’t think I’d want some random strangers living there for free, unsupervised, previously homeless or not.
When did we get to that point? I dunno, but I bet the seeds were sown back when Thor claimed the last cave on the right.
I *have* given thought to whether I would want to live with friends at some point and the jury’s still out on that idea. Maybe. If the place were big enough and everyone loved Spitty, LOL. I guess that leaves you out, huh? XOXOXO
Well, the stats usually say something like 20=25% of all homeless people are children, so at least that cohort would be expected to be free of some of the other problems, hopefully. Oh, everybody loves Spitty. How could they not?
I forgot to say, it was a kitty who wrote you and it was she who said that she lived with mom..it’s confusing when the commenter (me) doesn’t say she’s a cat and coincidentally consorts shamlessly with Spitty.
Meow.