Once society unwisely begins to mistreat people simply because they are unhoused*; the mistreated people are not to be blamed for their poor behavior and lack of enthusiasm.

The Homeless Problem is a matter of Economics:
The Solution is a matter of Trust.

For simplicities sake, let us say there are three types of homeless.
• The temporary or transitional. These people are unsettled and their difficulties lie in the realm of lost job, house burned down, or spousal abuse.
• The sheltered homeless. are those in the care of "used car salesmen" known as lawyer/politicians and "social workers".
• The sheltered homeless are captives of a system that has put to a new or different purpose a prison model.
• The idea behind it is to motivate people to want out... at any cost.
• Is this legally or morally the way to treat tens of thousand of your own people?
• You can't visit either criminals of the homeless, where they "live". You must go though "channels" so little can be learned.

• Then there are the "free range" homeless. These include but are not limited to the "bums" and "human garbage" that is evident on almost every corner in the economically underpriviledged neighborhoods they once call slums.
  But, and here I speculate, by far the majaroty of "free range" homeless are invisible. They live their lives hidden and quietly alone.
  YOU NEVER SEE THEM because they are very much like you... they hold jobs, groom themselves, even pay taxes.
  They suffer all the more for this.

******************************** Paths to Homelessness Extreme Poverty and the Urban Housing Crisis/ Doug A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley The homeless are the poorest of the poor. Like other poor people, the homeless receive inadequate or no medical care, tend to be malnourished, experience discrimination, and are the objects of scorn and condescension by those more advantaged. But the poverty of the homeless is extreme. They are homeless because their economic resources are exhausted. They have no personal safety net and they have escaped the one supposedly supplied by society. Finding food and shelter are troubles every day. And, most notably, the homeless are much more visible than other poor people. Whether they sleep in the streets or in shelters, they are quickly and easily identified as social pariahs. ********************************

Next will take a look at the "mental rust" that corrodes the mind and behavior of a human, isolated from companionship, exposed to the elements, allowed no rest, and left to face a pointless universe of hardships.

to be continued...