Homeless shelters need to stop treating them like animals. Imagine picking the streets over a shelter with draconian rules.
I bet to cannot because you lack empathy with anyone in a lower socioeconomic situation than yours.
eah. im not in the san fran area, seattle, but i had a coworker who was homeless and yet they wouldnt be flexible enough to allow him to come in late from his job to get into the shelter. and it was my coworkers fault they were homeless, he let people stay with him that werent on his lease and didnt have money for get into a new place yet.
Some homeless people chose the streets because they want the freedom. They don’t want to participate in the rules of the system society provides to help them. They don’t want to live in the system, and that is their choice. Choices have consequences, but society should not be expected to tolerate their uncivilized behavior if they chose not to participate.
They don’t want to be subject to the rules.
It is our choice as a society to give them no alternative
Their “uncivilized” behavior is us dealing with the consequences of expecting them to be treated like work release prisoners.
This take will remain ridiculous until there are systems in place to readily house (and fully assist with support services) every single houseless person to the point at which they can be self-reliant in the city they are currently in with no strings attached. Without those systems in place and showing results, asking any houseless person if they prefer to stay on the street is a poisoned question.
You can’t go in with your bigger stuff, for a fair reason. ( Pests, weapons, drugs). Many avoid it on that reason alone.
But that’s not the big one.
In a bid to have full occupancy you have to line up early for daily intake. That means you don’t have time to get across town for a job interview, for food, for drugs (if you need them, no judge), for safety, etc.
So you line up early hoping to get in, essentially gambling you’ll get a spot. If you don’t you missed food, the good camping spots, etc. If you do get in you’re often only allowed a bag and have to abandon any other stuff you’ve collected.
These places need to be set up with safe isolated storage and some sort of expedited intake methods.
But then these places aren’t even safe, often folks feel safer camped out in the shadows than in a facility.
Shits fucked
