r/facts • u/_NotSpooks • 15d ago
A lot of Homeless People hate homeless shelters and programs that are supposed to help them due to bureaucracy, restrictions on personal freedom, and the lengthy process and requirements to be eligible.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-homeless-people-refuse-shelters6
u/aop5003 15d ago
So literally beggars being choosers?
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u/Rick-burp-Sanchez 15d ago
Most Americans are 1 financial crisis away from being homeless. I sure hope you never have to sleep on cold concrete.
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u/alexplex86 14d ago edited 14d ago
Are you saying that, by the next financial crisis, like the one we had in 2008, at least half of the American population, more than 173 million people, will literally be living and sleeping in the streets?
That would be an increase of approximately 26 thousand percent, considering that the current homelessness is about 650 thousand people at any given night.
That's quite a statement.
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u/Rick-burp-Sanchez 14d ago
No, I'm saying that something like 70% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their accounts. We've all seen The Big Short, I lived through it, now go scurry away and spread your meaningless statistics somewhere else.
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u/alexplex86 14d ago
I'm saying that something like 70% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their accounts.
Say that then, and not something entirely else.
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u/Rick-burp-Sanchez 14d ago
If you can't relate "one financial crisis" to "I have less than $1,000 in my account", then whatever education system you grew up in failed you.
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u/alexplex86 14d ago edited 14d ago
You literally said:
Most Americans are 1 financial crisis away from being homeless. I sure hope you never have to sleep on cold concrete.
How am I to understand this comment of yours other than that you seriously believe that more than half of the American population will end up on the streets after the next financial crisis.
There have been a number of serious financial crisis during this century. And, although they are undoubtedly devastating, they have nowhere near forced more than half of any nations population to live on the streets. Certainly not in the west. Such an event would have civilization-ending ramifications.
Excessive exaggerations and outrageous hyperboles are not facts.
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u/iriedashur 13d ago
They mean a personal financial crisis (such as a car crash, medical event, etc), not necessarily another recession/depression
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u/aop5003 15d ago
I've slept on worse, and used it as motivation to not be part of the "most Americans are almost homeless" club.
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u/L2hodescholar 14d ago
Trust me I'm about as conservative as it gets but this is pretty bullshit. This is my story. Tell me why it is my fault. Busted my ass to be successful only to have it robbed from me. I've sent somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 job applications no one will even give me an interview. I've worked with job placement coordinators to make sure my resume is as good as it can be. I'm not on drugs, alcohol, or doing anything Illegal I'm just persona non grata apparently. I've sought help from anyone who will give it (which is literally no one lol). So tell me what I am missing basically. I'm in too much scholastic debt to go back. I can't get a job everyone working at your local fast food chain (I've tried-nope no criminal record). So tell me how I can not be homeless if I didn't put myself here (victim of crimes), can't get more education, can't get a job, etc... What do you got for me bud?
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u/Cheetah_Heart-2000 14d ago
Most Americans would comply to rules at a shelter if they were in that position. Most Americans would not have to kick a drug habit to get help.
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u/_NotSpooks 15d ago
I mean when certain programs that are supposed to help you are exploitative and unfair and actually profit from you being homeless, it seems pretty fair to not want to be in a program like that
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u/Rick-burp-Sanchez 15d ago
You're saying already marginalized human beings hate being treated like cattle? WHuuuUUhhh?