Step Two. If you would deal successfully with homelessness, give each one of the homeless a friend.
Football players have coaches. Students have teachers. Children have parents. Most any time someone endeavors to do something, there is someone there to show them how, someone there to help them.
Surely, few groups of people are more in need of guiding and comforting hands than are the homeless.
Everybody needs a friend. Everybody. If the homeless are to find a way out, they, too, need friends.
Step One in fighting homelessness is to mediate between the homeless and their families, simply checking to see if the two parties can be reconciled so the homeless person can return home.
Step Two is to assign each one a friend. These would be volunteers, not paid professionals. I imagine, in seeking out volunteers, you could have a large ad campaign proclaiming, "Adopt the Homeless."
And, perhaps a subtitle of, "Befriend the Poor."
Excuse me for thinking so -- if it is something you think silly -- but the principle of love is a key to solving many of the world's problems. I think we should look at love and consider how to implement it in most of our problems.
And, that includes the problem of the homeless. And, how can you provide love if you don't provide friends?
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