Report them to corporate, they listen. The 7/11 around the corner used to let the homeless sit out front and harass everyone. Few emails to corporate and the loiters are now gone.
Now before anyone cries like a wimp, they were super aggressive. I’m a big scary guy and they would fuck with me. Forget it if your a woman, it was so bad almost no one would go there and hit the other mart that was more expensive.
I’m surprised this has a positive score. Lemmy hates when you point out the fact that not all homeless people are just normal folks having financial difficulties.
I used to be a lot more sympathetic towards homeless people until I had to work and live in a shitty neighbourhood in an increasingly shitty city.
My sympathy has mostly dwindled away at this point. I wasn’t paid enough to have deal with the unstable crackheads trying to break into my store’s stock room. A friend of mine has been attacked on transit twice in the last couple years while just trying to mind her own business. The train stations are fucking overrun with homeless people. The city couldn’t be assed to even wipe blood off the wall for weeks after someone got stabbed in a train station.
I wish I had the power to do something about the massive systemic problems that creates this mess, but I’m outvoted by the huge amount of conservative dipshits in my province. I’d settle for being able to walk around my neighbourhood without the risk of getting stabbed at this point, but I don’t get that either.
It helps to realize that there are two distinct groups of homeless. One is just people who experienced financial hardship because capitalism and just need some help to get back on their feet.
The other is a group that is chronically homeless because they are severely mentally ill and don’t want to take their meds (which fair, the side effects of antipsychotics blow), addicts who have no desire to get sober yet, or a combo of the two (self medicating their mental illness). Some of these people are literally feral (skid row in LA is a good example).
Even though they are a minority of homeless, those people are what makes homelessness such a difficult issue to tackle. At some point you’d have to involuntarily commit them and force them to get help and stay compliant. It’s not just an issue of lack of affordable housing.
Part of the problem is that the first group, untreated, can turn into the second group. Which is why early intervention and support are so important, and a lot cheaper.
When it gets bad, it can take a long time for a policy change to really start working. :(
Right? Until people really live near the aggressive homeless they never appreciate how dangerous they can be. My guess is they mostly meet the professional “homeless” like you see in DC. Not the drug\booze addled mental ill ones you have in non tourist area’s like mine.
People seem to think that acknowledging they exist is saying A) all homeless people are like that, and B) that those people don’t deserve help if they want it.
The whole “it would only cost $X to end homelessness” annoys me because it’s not an issue you can solve by throwing money at it. The causes are super complex, not simply a lack of affordable housing.
Report them to corporate, they listen. The 7/11 around the corner used to let the homeless sit out front and harass everyone. Few emails to corporate and the loiters are now gone.
Now before anyone cries like a wimp, they were super aggressive. I’m a big scary guy and they would fuck with me. Forget it if your a woman, it was so bad almost no one would go there and hit the other mart that was more expensive.
The only time I’ve visited a 7-11 was on vacation in Virginia Beach and this was my exact experience.
I’m in Virginia, it must be a state thing as I never seen this issue in any other state
I’m surprised this has a positive score. Lemmy hates when you point out the fact that not all homeless people are just normal folks having financial difficulties.
Reality will puncture through echo chambers occasionally
I used to be a lot more sympathetic towards homeless people until I had to work and live in a shitty neighbourhood in an increasingly shitty city.
My sympathy has mostly dwindled away at this point. I wasn’t paid enough to have deal with the unstable crackheads trying to break into my store’s stock room. A friend of mine has been attacked on transit twice in the last couple years while just trying to mind her own business. The train stations are fucking overrun with homeless people. The city couldn’t be assed to even wipe blood off the wall for weeks after someone got stabbed in a train station.
I wish I had the power to do something about the massive systemic problems that creates this mess, but I’m outvoted by the huge amount of conservative dipshits in my province. I’d settle for being able to walk around my neighbourhood without the risk of getting stabbed at this point, but I don’t get that either.
So I stew in quiet resentment.
It helps to realize that there are two distinct groups of homeless. One is just people who experienced financial hardship because capitalism and just need some help to get back on their feet.
The other is a group that is chronically homeless because they are severely mentally ill and don’t want to take their meds (which fair, the side effects of antipsychotics blow), addicts who have no desire to get sober yet, or a combo of the two (self medicating their mental illness). Some of these people are literally feral (skid row in LA is a good example).
Even though they are a minority of homeless, those people are what makes homelessness such a difficult issue to tackle. At some point you’d have to involuntarily commit them and force them to get help and stay compliant. It’s not just an issue of lack of affordable housing.
Part of the problem is that the first group, untreated, can turn into the second group. Which is why early intervention and support are so important, and a lot cheaper.
When it gets bad, it can take a long time for a policy change to really start working. :(
Right? Until people really live near the aggressive homeless they never appreciate how dangerous they can be. My guess is they mostly meet the professional “homeless” like you see in DC. Not the drug\booze addled mental ill ones you have in non tourist area’s like mine.
People seem to think that acknowledging they exist is saying A) all homeless people are like that, and B) that those people don’t deserve help if they want it.
The whole “it would only cost $X to end homelessness” annoys me because it’s not an issue you can solve by throwing money at it. The causes are super complex, not simply a lack of affordable housing.