It is a human issue. It is growing. Meanwhile, there are issues taking precedence and some of them are not even close to the top of the list as far as priorities go on the ground and in real time in relation to survival, poverty, and a host of others that we are all aware of, but I won't list here.
No, we get SOME people's ideas about what is important or necessary while the real crises are virtually ignored and allowed to fester and grow. Hey, that's country rot in my book and its really going to start to stink bad to the point of inducing collective nausea if it continues unabated. The thing is, nobody is really 100% immune to some of these things and some bad fortune can land you in an inescapable Hell on Earth. Is Hell on Earth for tens of thousands of people, (from young to old) what we had in mind for our country? Really? That's OK?
It involves all kinds of people from children to seniors. It transcends the moralistic stereotypes are pushed in the face of the public when we do hear about it, which tends to normalize in a way that makes homeless people the problem rather than seeing the problems that make people homeless and the lack of help and support that enables it.
There is much more to come, folks. Since there are little to no efforts to really tackle the real causes of people becoming domestically challenged, which can be so difficult to recover from that scores of people will only escape it by way of death, we will see the numbers swell and suffering of abject poverty will increase, perhaps dramatically.
Not only is this damaging and dangerous for children, but it is very difficult and taxing on seniors. The reason I mention that is we are now in a phase where the boomers who didn't get the benefits of any economic booms are reaching retirement, (65) to the tune of 10,000 people-per-day. Statistically, half of them, (say, 5,000) have little or no assets to retire on, many have no pensions, either. This will contribute significantly to the coming waves of homeless people in this country since rent is often not affordable, rents are also increasing dramatically and food prices are soaring in relation to the amount that SNAP provides.
This is deplorable in a wealthy country and the idea of an economic boom is a farce when it comes to an increasing, and large number of people living at or below the poverty line. Brace yourselves for more of this if nothing is going to be done about it other than to move people around like cattle in the streets.
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