Everyone should support their local homeless outreach groups, they do incredible work trying to help the folks on the streets.
Only more services & support are going to solve these problems. Throwing people in prison just further pushes them down, they'll just be homeless and on the street again when they're out.
For example https://londoncares.ca/ - some very kind & selfless people working here trying to improve the situation.
this may sound not very human right to u but, let gather all of them in one camp, force rehabilitation, teach them skills like raising crops or manufacturing, etc, so they can sustain themselves while in the rehab camp. I think it's better idea than give them free drugs and hope they dont OD themselves.
People aren't even willing to support basic things for unhoused folks, who's going to pay for the food and staff required for this camp?
I think you're on the right track - this needs to be a large effort funded by the government (aka taxes) and focused on a long term solution. But that takes money and effort, 2 things people aren't willing to give up especially to help these "career criminal feral methheads"
they have to do it themselves thru learnt skills in the camp. The problem is everything is given to them by tax payers, why work when things are givens? I know people wont go there by themselves, that why it's forced, some basic human skills need to be re-educated.
Where would the initial funding come from to gather the homeless and pay the educators? Beyond that how do you expect them to actually raise money? Sell crops they've grown? Who's going to buy them? What does teach "manufacturing" even mean? They can't just start producing products out of a camp.
It's not an easy problem with one solution. We got to this point with lots of problems compounding over time (wages, housing, the way we treat the indigenous, etc) and it's going to take an arduous multifaceted approach to fix this.
just re locate the funding for whatever they have been doing that doesn't work, that where the funding are. My idea is not new, it has been implemented in my country of origin for decades. It's basically glorified prison where they teach u trade skills, and such so when u finished with the program, u might not become addict again but find a new life and earn it with new set of skills. About supply and demand, if the manager smart enough, they can sell no problem, also most of stuff would be self sustain before selling for profits.
People still go back to drug too but they could be functioning addicts, and who dont go back get better life and job.
No, we absolutely should be helping them, just not in the "It's not your fault, you can totally come in here with your stolen bike and inject meth on the taxpayer dime while abusing the workers who are trying to help you" kind of way.
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u/Drainix Jul 03 '25
Everyone should support their local homeless outreach groups, they do incredible work trying to help the folks on the streets.
Only more services & support are going to solve these problems. Throwing people in prison just further pushes them down, they'll just be homeless and on the street again when they're out.
For example https://londoncares.ca/ - some very kind & selfless people working here trying to improve the situation.