āItās a piece of cakeā¦you get three meals a day and donāt have to do shitā¦wake up, eat get high, wake up eat get highā repeat. A homeless woman shared with me why itās so easy to be homeless. She was brutally honest because she hates the enablement āThey are loving us to deathā
Wendy is a trained hairdresser and wants to work but recently had her dentures stolen from her tent. She said the lawlessness and the enablement is not working. She misses the police because things then were safer. I asked her about outreach workers. I was the first in years to
Checked on Wendy today and told her the good news that there is now a fundraiser to get her new dentures because the last ones were stolen from her.
@kevinvdahlgren If your country had affordable housing, world class education and a corporate network that didnāt outsource labor to China, it wouldnāt happen. How many homeless people do you come across who are Veterans?
@kevinvdahlgren Iāve started to ask myself why people like Wendy and those around her have lost hope and donāt feel like they have anything to contribute. Loss of hope is the biggest issue. We basically tell people they arenāt good enough to contribute and there is no hopeāhereās hush money.
@kevinvdahlgren I love all the people who have it figured out by talking to one homeless person. Having worked with homeless for a few decades it is not a one type fix all. You have abused runaways, mental Illness, catastrophic life events and drug/alcohol abuse. Each has their own issues.
@kevinvdahlgren @elonmusk you can like this post, help her get dentures. you could literally pay for her and all her friends to live for the rest of their lives with ease. buy her some dentures.
@kevinvdahlgren Meanwhile I just got tracked for buying a bottle of cough syrup. Way to go Oregon.