"If you nurture a starving dog and make him prosperous, he won't bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man" - Mark Twain
https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/2014/11/m...
How a society treats its most vulnerable, "undesirable" and powerless individuals (prisoners, homeless and other minority groups) reflects the true nature of its constituents.
It's truly a shame most modern people have no idea what it's like to be homeless and/or didn't learn the golden rule or empathy in their upbringing.
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They make me very little money, but some local homeless services and the local police department give out fliers of mine that list some of my sites. At least one local individual got back into housing, probably in part because of the information on my sites. I was acquainted with him and gave him a flier personally.
The police department seems to be my best ally in that regard. Unlike most homeless services,* they don't need the homeless problem to continue to exist to give their lives meaning or justify their paychecks. They would be thrilled to see the local homeless problem resolved so they could dedicate their limited resources to dealing with crime.
* (The Shirky Principle and Homelessness:
https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-shirky-...)
I'm still struggling to make ends meet and I seem to be making a dent in the homeless problem. It makes me really unsympathetic to arguments from more well-heeled people about how hard it is to solve or similar excuses for continuing to do nothing.
In my experience, homeless people act cringeing and fearful, and often call people Sir or Ma'am.
It's pretty horrible to see someone's spirit broken that way.
They aren't the people who need to learn gratitude.