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[Mike K.]

Ah, so the plot thickens.

Why wasn’t this man asked how an air soft in his possession led to being placed on bail?

[Victoria Watcher]

Every single story in this series seems to be about bad behaviour/decisions by these people.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 April 2026 - 02:11 PM.

[LJ]

Why are we still calling them homeless when the correct description is workless?

 

Fix the first deficiency and the second deficiency disappears.

 

Can't fix the first deficiency - move into one of VW's barrack houses.

 

Can't get along there - get incarcerated.

 

Problem solved - Millions of $ saved - hundreds of poverty pimps out of work.

[Mike K.]

It’s likely deeply addicted and living with mental health complications, rather than workless. If these people were by and large able to hold down a job, the poverty industrial complex would have employment for them, but they know it’s mostly impossible for a severely addicted and mentally unwell person to hold down a job.

The path out is abstinence and mental healthcare, and that is not how the system operates.

[LJ]

I agree, but why are we calling them homeless, the reason they are homeless is that they are workless. If they had jobs they  wouldn't be homeless. Incarcerate them until they become contributing citizens.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

In the nonprofit world, this was framed as compassion. We were told our job was to meet people where they were. We were told not to push too hard. We were told that addiction, chaos, criminal behavior, and self-destruction were all downstream of trauma, inequality, oppression, and housing costs. Some of that is true. But what was left unsaid was just as important: if you build an entire response system around minimizing discomfort without demanding progress, many people will remain exactly where they are.

 

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Many homeless individuals I worked with went from hoping someone might help them to expecting someone would handle everything for them. They needed help getting clothes, food, transportation, and appointments. They needed help calling family, cleaning camps, replacing IDs, filling out forms, finding shelter, and solving the most basic problems. Some of that help was necessary, especially at first. But somewhere along the way, the system stopped being about stabilization and started becoming about maintenance. We were not always helping people regain independence. We were often buffering them from the very discomfort that might have pushed them toward change.

 

 

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, Yesterday, 03:58 AM.