Looking at Simply Solutions is not a view that many in the ‘helping the homeless’ world’ take very often, we have been told it can’t be fixed. Solutions are not there for them, solutions are not to be expected for those people. Answers and hope cannot be found for them on the streets ‘cause it just ain’t so no more. But, that is all false social engineering that has to be changed and today we begin that critically important discussion. Homeless people don’t want to die like abandoned animals in the streets, we should not let them, we should work for solutions.
Simply Solution Based Ideas
Hey y’all there is something I can tell that is totally positive and can shift thinking and give hope and relieve you of seeing me on the streets corners every day! It is actually a solution, yes you can help resolve homelessness without getting your hands dirty or even seeing us or dealing with us directly. Could there be anything better for you as you sit in your comfortable cars, warm houses and drink your coffee and eat your hot meals. Do you want to hear more?
Okay, my friend calls it the Utah model, that is the only state that is doing it the way that it works. What are they doing, they are curbing and ending homelessness. They do not attempt to qualify people while leaving or keeping them on the streets or working with them while leaving on the streets full time. They developed and deployed a radical idea, and it is working with long term results that is ending the cycle of homeless and bringing people to stability again as humans and as ones who can be a part of life again. It’s really cool, and it is something more states need to be involved in.
Now it does not have a new approach or a method, but I call it the Utah Model, because it is something that works and it proves so many people wrong, those say homelessness can’t be ended. Try this on for size, ‘housing with services, dangerous and services without housing, foolish,’ yes and that is the mentality most states work within.
So many states and towns just throw millions of dollars at homelessness without any though of ending the cycle, they have foundations and agencies, and study groups and shelters, and intervention teams and yet no one is fighting for housing first with services to bring stability and end the cycle continues, why man. I am Howard, I have been homeless for too long, I do not want to die out here, but I do not see a road out, so why I am expected to change, or behave, or comply with certain expectations when there is no road out?
I have talked to Eric, Billy Bob, Barb and some of the others and we are all frustrated. Some of actually used to be some of those throwing stereotypes around and adding to the problem. But the social engineering of the thought patterns related to us homeless folk is seriously flawed y’all, I mean really, the thinking that all of us are addicts, all of us a re drinkers,, all of us chose this ‘lifestyle’ really? But it is those thoughts and thinking that keep us imprisoned here without solutions.
Dogs, cats and the illegals get better attention and more effective help then we do, and we have real potential for being productive humans once again. We can add to the economy of this nation, but we cannot do anything out here. Sometimes I just wish the earth could swallow me up, it would end the hurt, the frustration, the being tired, and sad and even hopeless. Why can’t we begin to build the Utah here, why can’ we turn things around here, why not? But my friends tell me I can’t think that way, so I just waste my time thinking, too much thinking, oh well thanks for listening.
Homelessness does not have to be, it never was, and it does not have to be, we can’t fix ourselves, but together we can bring the merry go round to an end, but will you put the stereotypes aside and help?
Will You Continue in Ignorance Regarding Homelessness
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Will You Simply Engage In Solutions & Answers
