Many homeless don't want a home

[border_humper]

'It feels like there's no hope': Many homeless don't want a home. What now?

Even offering up free or nearly-free housing isn’t luring some itinerants off the streets of Medicine Hat

nationalpost.com

Medicine Hat has housing available for the homeless. “You can be home if you want to,” he laments. “You just choose not to when it’s nice outside,” he says of itinerants who prefer to live rough. “I think announcing we had zero homeless brought more people here,” Brent acknowledges with a chuckle. Transients would come in from other jurisdictions, assuming Medicine Hat must have all sorts of available housing programs. “The problem,” Brent continues, “is a lot of them, especially in the summer when it’s nice outside and you can sleep rough outdoors,” turn down the housing because it comes with rules.

Not all homeless people want to be homeless. But many do see it as a lifestyle choice, not unlike hobos in the Depression hopping trains. Some people don’t see the appeal of rules and jobs.

 

[ovarieasy]

"No! You have to stay jacked into the system! You have to feed the beast!"

 

[Hirudinea]

'It feels like there's no hope': Many homeless don't want a home. What now?

Even offering up free or nearly-free housing isn’t luring some itinerants off the streets of Medicine Hat

nationalpost.com

Not all homeless people want to be homeless. But many do see it as a lifestyle choice, not unlike hobos in the Depression hopping trains. Some people don’t see the appeal of rules and jobs.

border_humper
Fine, be homeless if you want to but if you're not out of town by sundown you'll be living in jail.

 

[BeerAndOil]

Can’t do drugs in homeless shelters or in government funded low income housing. Have to follow the rules, look for work, or be on disability, have to participate in society in some way. Some people don’t want to be part of society.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

fook society

society as it is so messed up why bother with it

 

[Rusty Canuckleford]

Hey, I hate our society too, but that doesn’t mean you need to be a disgusting junkie instead.

 

[Glowie]

@Rusty Canuckleford

This