The cost of homeless people.

[paperfist]

Chronically homeless people are a small minority of the total homeless at any given time.



https://www.quora.com/On-average-how-long-are-homeless-people-on-the-streets-for

Those are old numbers but I doubt they're much changed.

The truth is that all too many Americans live on the edge of financial ruin-

https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/pf/emergency-expenses-household-finances/index.html

I agree there, paycheck to paycheck teetering on the edge is real, but that's another discussion.

It's disturbing if those facts are correct and the majority of homeless aren't the entrenched type. That means there's failure in the system and family.

 

[Jhhnn]

I agree there, paycheck to paycheck teetering on the edge is real, but that's another discussion.

It's disturbing if those facts are correct and the majority of homeless aren't the entrenched type. That means there's failure in the system and family.

That systemic failure is the result of nearly 40 years of top down class warfare. Technology renders much of human labor obsolete & the people at the top have reaped all the financial fruits of progress. They own. We don't. We won't get any more out of them than we already do w/o redefining the whole relationship. It's foolish for us to not hold their power in check because they really don't give a fuck about the rest of us.

And then we have the GOP cutting taxes at the top, dismantling financial regulations, killing Unions, cutting benefits for the rest of America & somehow selling that to the voters. Go figure.

An old article you might appreciate

https://www.thedailybeast.com/census-surprised-by-rising-near-poor