In my area it’s popular to quote the city’s (self-reported) figures on how many people refuse shelter as proof that homeless people just “don’t want help,” while remaining willfully ignorant that the “help” offered is usually a one-night stay on a cot in an overcrowded shelter that separates you from your belongings, pets, and family. It’s unreal that libs and chuds actually believe that the gov is handing out free housing
separates you from your belongings, pets, and family.
And often the medication keeping you alive. A lot of “shelters” don’t allow “drug use” on the premises. People addicted to fentanyl for example need to frequently dose to keep from going into crippling withdrawal. If you can’t dose at the shelter then you simply can’t stay at that shelter because you’ll soon be too sick to even function.
Most shelters don’t require sobriety anymore (though as I understand it, some do) and libs act as if that’s already too lenient. Well not having to be sober is not the same thing as being permitted to possess and use your medication while there, which can get you immediately kicked out. But even the no sobriety requirement thing is being challenged as they’re trying to pass laws that would deny anyone who isn’t sober from access to shelters, laws they of course frame as “supporting for sober housing.” The libs want to means test everyone, and one of the primary ways is to drug test people before providing any kind of “benefits” (read: basic humans needs).
In my area it’s popular to quote the city’s (self-reported) figures on how many people refuse shelter as proof that homeless people just “don’t want help,” while remaining willfully ignorant that the “help” offered is usually a one-night stay on a cot in an overcrowded shelter that separates you from your belongings, pets, and family. It’s unreal that libs and chuds actually believe that the gov is handing out free housing
If 75% of homeless people are turning down your “help” maybe you should examine what makes your “help” so bad people would rather live on the streets
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And often the medication keeping you alive. A lot of “shelters” don’t allow “drug use” on the premises. People addicted to fentanyl for example need to frequently dose to keep from going into crippling withdrawal. If you can’t dose at the shelter then you simply can’t stay at that shelter because you’ll soon be too sick to even function.
Most shelters don’t require sobriety anymore (though as I understand it, some do) and libs act as if that’s already too lenient. Well not having to be sober is not the same thing as being permitted to possess and use your medication while there, which can get you immediately kicked out. But even the no sobriety requirement thing is being challenged as they’re trying to pass laws that would deny anyone who isn’t sober from access to shelters, laws they of course frame as “supporting for sober housing.” The libs want to means test everyone, and one of the primary ways is to drug test people before providing any kind of “benefits” (read: basic humans needs).
And actively prevents and/or punishes you from self medicating i.e. weed