Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Simply Offer Everyone a Bed and Your Homeless Problem is at an End

  To solve homelessness, simply don't allow it.
   Oh, no, don't get me wrong. I'm not calling for it to be outlawed. Rather, I'm suggesting we not allow the suffering, not allow that we don't step in and to help. No one should need to sleep in the streets.
  Unless they truly want to.
  What if a city were so intent on helping the homeless that volunteers spanned out each evening, canvassing the city, searching for the homeless, looking in every nook and cranny to bring them in out of the cold.
  "No one will go homeless in our city," would be the cry.
  I wonder, is it so hard to find a bed for everyone? Does it need to be? Are there not empty warehouses, empty commercial buildings, that could be rented at moment's notice -- arrangements having been made in advance? If you have zoning ordinances against it, change your zoning ordinances.
   To end homelessness, simply don't allow yourself not to find everyone a bed.

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