I live three houses from a park with a one-mile street underpass for a creek, a half mile from a methadone clinic, highway entry/exit ramps, 7-11 and QuikTrip convenience stores. These are all magnets for the homeless. I walk past everchanging encampments on my morning walks.
Some (a small minority of the homeless population) are mentally…
I live three houses from a park with a one-mile street underpass for a creek, a half mile from a methadone clinic, highway entry/exit ramps, 7-11 and QuikTrip convenience stores. These are all magnets for the homeless. I walk past everchanging encampments on my morning walks.
Some (a small minority of the homeless population) are mentally disabled. People financially destroyed by government policies, also a minority of the homeless population. The majority have the blues (fentanyl addiction) resulting in burglaries, strong arm robberies and increased shoplifting.
Due to local temperature extremes, while heat related deaths and violence are significant, drug overdose is the major cause of death. The racial/ethnic demographic is in line with population demographics, but Hispanic homeless is an exception (less) and Asian homeless are essentially nonexistent. I see mostly "white" homeless people. I suspect that it could be a case of more tough love where people won't put up with that shit and kick their ass out. I've seen several cases of that.
Jobs are gone, malls and strip malls unoccupied, factories offshore leading to the economic destruction (I'll not rant on who is responsible) but at least in my locale, drug addiction is a major cause. Maybe not everywhere. If you write about it, you will undoubtedly do a bunch or research.
I live three houses from a park with a one-mile street underpass for a creek, a half mile from a methadone clinic, highway entry/exit ramps, 7-11 and QuikTrip convenience stores. These are all magnets for the homeless. I walk past everchanging encampments on my morning walks.
Some (a small minority of the homeless population) are mentally disabled. People financially destroyed by government policies, also a minority of the homeless population. The majority have the blues (fentanyl addiction) resulting in burglaries, strong arm robberies and increased shoplifting.
Due to local temperature extremes, while heat related deaths and violence are significant, drug overdose is the major cause of death. The racial/ethnic demographic is in line with population demographics, but Hispanic homeless is an exception (less) and Asian homeless are essentially nonexistent. I see mostly "white" homeless people. I suspect that it could be a case of more tough love where people won't put up with that shit and kick their ass out. I've seen several cases of that.
Jobs are gone, malls and strip malls unoccupied, factories offshore leading to the economic destruction (I'll not rant on who is responsible) but at least in my locale, drug addiction is a major cause. Maybe not everywhere. If you write about it, you will undoubtedly do a bunch or research.