tbh I don't even know what is the solution to the homeless problems. Here in hawaii we have a ton of homeless camps and they are getting bigger everyday. They also produce a huge amount of trash and other problems. The city tried to clean up the camps but they just move elsewhere. At some place the homeless has gotten so bad that it make resident feel unsafe going outside. Hawaii is a very expensive place, even with tax increase and social housing, there's just no way to have enough space for all the homeless people, most of them don't have a livable job either and are usually with kids. I'm just not sure what the solution is.
There is and isn't. It's not a one-problem thing but many problems as every homeless person has an issue, some permanent and some temporary that range from financial reasons to addiction to mental health to just not caring and fine with where they are. Major metropolitan areas spend their money two ways: social services (not enough) and policing (probably too much, but with growing homeless population means growing policing).
I've lived in LA for a long time now, seen the large scope of the issue that ranges from me feeling pity and giving a little money to me really angry at them when they feel threatening/calling me names (getting called names daily wears on you, I guess I have that kind of face) or destroy property. I suppose that's reflective of the problem itself: feeling bad for some, not so bad for others because, at the end of the day, we don't know their entire stories and tackling homelessness is less pushing a button for all and dealing with individuals and their own personal issues. Like any large group of people, it's not all great and not all bad, it's...just complicated like anything else.
I've always believed in grassroots on the issue - outreach and the like because a lot of homeless just don't know their options or totally in their own world, but that means a lot of money, a plan to deal to get to individuals on a personal level and a lot of people to commit to something that may not even work for a lot of the people needing the help. It's an impossible dream, some local organizations are doing it on a small scale in some of the districts in LA really needing it, but it can't keep up with the increasing problems and even with money supposedly committed to battling the issue, I think the city is likely going to funnel it into just policing homeless people and not funding those organizations that might be able to battle it from the ground up.
