I never did see the 575,000 house.. I saw an apartment.. yes it was nice.. Why do people think the long term homeless do not deserve something other than 3 hots and a cot? Most of these people are not homeless by choice.. one was a Marine.. married and had what people would call a "normal" life... with the advent of "Managed Care" so long to most of the mental health funding that people NEED.. Their depressionhgets worse.. nothing they can do about it without help.. they lose a job.. can't afford their medicines.. then what? Toss them out like yesterday's fish? What would that accomplish?
Most families in America today are one crisis away from the streets.. if you aren't consider yourself very blessed. The mentally ill cannot have the normalcy that most people have. they have a life that few people understand.. the voices.. the black depths of depression.. the addiction that comes with just trying to make themselves feel better... what do we do with these folks?
My calling is to help them.. I have been in their shoes.. I have been the homeless addict on the streets.. I have been in the depths of depression so far that drowning would have been a relief... I now have a college degree.. a home <which I am buying myself> and a job far better than any job I have ever had before.. I am sure not in this for the money.. but.. My needs are met.. and my hope is.. that some of these people I work with.. will have theirs met too
:::sliding my soapbox back under the bed:::
Thank You.