Homeless Solution

Many homeless wretches have severe mental problems from years of intoxication. They won't seek help sincerely until they hit rock bottom, then they should get help. Many are on the edge, salvageable, if they only had a job. Practical solutions with a growing economy, creating jobs, can achieve great results. This can be extended nationally to significantly end homelessness. Homelessness solution is practicable with bold leadership at helm, as I can fix it long term with a rehabilitating minimum cost solution.

There are two types of homeless individuals salvageable and unsalvageable. Both types have psychological and intoxication problems. The salvageable homeless individual is one that is suitable for conventional community sheltering, wherein the individual is housed, fed and provided an opportunity to find employment to get back on his feet. The big problem is the unsalvageable homeless individual. This individual has severe psychological problems and alcohol and drug problems. You cannot help this individual until this individual has hit rock bottom and realizes that he has no hope in life. When this individual realizes he has no chance in life, that is the time that this individual can be helped. The program involves voluntary incarceration for a limited period of detoxification and psychological counseling. Do not try to help them, other than food and clothes pantries, until they agree to limited incarceration as you would be wasting valuable resources. Law enforcement should clean up homeless encampments, forcing homeless into conventional shelters or voluntary incarceration. Large barracks can be constructed for both types of homeless individuals.

During the detoxification period, the individual is provided psychological and psychiatric counseling. After the detoxification, and under psychologist and psychiatric guidance the individual is provided employment. Initially, the employment should be minimal. The idea is to slowly bring the sober individual into a routine of sleeping normally, eating normally, exercising normally, and working minimally to establish a normal daily routine. As the individual becomes more suitable for higher levels of employment, the individual is working more hours. The individual, with free housing, free food, free clothes, begins to save money and prepares himself to return to society sober and employable. This is the basic program. It’s the only one that will work. Surely many will back slide into their prior lifestyle of homelessness and drug and alcohol use.

Some may have severe psychological and physical handicap problems, that are so severe, that they may require permanent government sheltering with psychological treatment, but may be able to sustain a modest lifestyle of sober living and employment, with constant psychological counseling. Psychological counseling is a major component of this solution. This is the simplest program that can be implemented nationwide.

This solution must not be a federal solution but a state by state solution as social services are under the exclusive jurisdiction of state governments in our republic of limited federal government and distributed state governance.

Homelessness is a terrible problem. I have often wept at the sorry state that these individuals are in and my personal inability to truly help them, many of whom that I have befriended had their crematorium ashes dumped in landfills. It is a very sad affair. But this is the best program possible and is noble God’s work, well-suited for state social services, assistance and welfare. I pray that the many states will implement this basic program and do the best they can for the Homeless.