• coyootje@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    25 days ago

    If you create shelters where the homeless can stay for the night they don’t have to sleep rough in a park or station like that. Of course this won’t work for all of them, sometimes people like sleeping rough. But on average it should help, especially in the colder months. They do this where I live and I rarely see homeless in the streets when it gets dark, they’re only there during the day to scavenge for cans and bottles with deposits on them or to beg for money.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      24 days ago

      Or, you know, actual homes.

      Shelters are often much more dangerous to the unhoused people than even sleeping on the street. Even when they aren’t, they’re usually extremely underfunded, overbooked, or both.

      It’s not that “some people like sleeping rough”, it’s that oftentimes that’s simply the least bad option.

      • coyootje@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        24 days ago

        I agree but in many places they have housing shortages so I don’t think it’s likely they’ll give homes to the homeless. I’m not saying they shouldn’t (it would be really nice if the government could do something like this) but it’s not very likely to happen.