• Peaty@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yes it is absolutely the case as I have seen in the thirty years I have volunteered with homeless shelters.

    Typically it is PTSD that sometimes leads to violent responses that makes these people want to be unhoused. We have a lot of vets in my country, The USA, who aren’t getting the mental health care they need. Some of these people are on the streets because they do not trust themselves around loved ones.

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      1 year ago

      So, you get my point. It isn’t just a desire to be on the street because they think it’s cool and fun.

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              1 year ago

              Yeah, actually, it is. Saying any significant fraction of the homeless population wants to be homeless is at BEST ignorant, and most likely a smoke screen to distract from the actual discussion. You’ve yet to provide any rebuttal than “I’ve seen homeless people who didn’t want housing!” And nothing supporting it.

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              1 year ago

              Sure, it isn’t. “I don’t want to” doesn’t stand on its own. “I don’t want to live in a house” implies that they prefer living outside of one.

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                1 year ago

                You commented “So, you get my point. It isn’t just a desire to be on the street because they think it’s cool and fun.”

                And it is the second sentence that I was referring to when I stated "I never said it was "

                There are unhoused people who do not want to live in a house.

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                  1 year ago

                  Stop dancing around the fucking point. It isn’t as simple as just not wanting a home. It’s knowing they can’t fucking manage the expenses and responsibility that are deliberately attached to owning a home. It’s trying to own a home and failing.

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                    1 year ago

                    Except it isn’t trying and failing. In some cases they don’t even know how to try. In other cases they can but only some of the times because they aren’t always mentally stable.

                    It sounds like you think homelessness is because of individual failings and that isn’t always the case.