Why are there homeless people?

Hello for3ver. I agree with you. Quite a few of those homeless are nothing but free loaders. I watched a program by John Strossel a few evenings ago. http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2011/03/25/freeloaders-a-john-stossel-fox-news-special-10pm-et-this-friday/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OQjlzh279E Some of them are making $100 a day. There is one woman that clames she trying to get home but she has a house a couple of blocks away from where she is begging. You should watch all Strossels videos on Youtube. It's a real eye opener. Some people are on the streets because they really have no chou8ice but the rest are just moochers.

There are lots of reasons there are so many. With unemployment so high & with the banks foreclosing on so many homes there are lots of people that are homeless & jobless. Once you hit that stage it's very difficult to get out of. If you were suddenly kicked out of your home & had no family to stay whith where would you go? Many of the shelters are overcrowded & have a waiting list. Where would you store your stuff? It would be hard to find a job. Most companies wouldn't risk hiring someone who didn't have a residence or somewhere they could be contacted. How would you even get a shower or wash your clothes to be presentable for work? I had a friend staying with my family for a while. He was on a waiting list to get into the closest shelter that was over an hour away. We were already struggling to get by without adding another mouth to feed but were able to let him stay for the 3 months it required for him to actually get in. Frankly there's just not enough goverment help or funding available to keep up with demand.

I'm pretty sure there are very few actual homeless people. A homeless person would be one who was actively searching for a home. Perhaps you are referring to 'street people' who live in the streets. In this case the street is their home and they wouldn't thank you for anything better. Also there are people who do have a structural house, but spend their time in the streets. A classic example of this is the lady in Toronto who is chauffeured to her begging corner each morning, where she begs all day and her chauffeur returns in the evening with her big Cadillac, to take her back home to her mansion in the suburbs.

Hi for3everfamous, Its sad still many stay below poverty line that they cannot have even the basic amenities of life that is shelter. This shows the economic imbalance, rich people can afford 4 to 5 homes, but there are people who cannot afford even a hut or roof. A development of country depends on balanced economy and government should take actions to provide shelter so as we individuals who can help them at least way.

This has happened to me before. Once driving downtown to also see a large line filled with people only trying to eat. This opened my eyes it really did. Made me all the more thankful for all I have. I do think the government is doing something, but just not everything we know they can do. So people are just homeless because of hard times. I'm sure you seen the Will Smith "pursuit of happiness" it was/is a true story. They went through really hard times because of lack of money turned into being homeless. Forced to sleep in a train station, then when all hope wad lost decided to stay in a homeless shulter. Times are just hard and this could happen to anybody.

I have just read a story: his wife is sick. he don't have enough money for treatment.He sold the only house to care her. They can look for enough money to buy a new house. They're becoming hopeless.

I assume the story is different for every homeless person. I know that in Guatemala there are homeless people living on the dump, and even though the government has provided housing for them they don't move. Cause where they live is all they know and they're afraid of going somewhere else. I think that might be the case even in America and other nations. Some people just don't want to live any other way. But like I said in the beginning, every homeless person's story is different. Why don't you ask some of them when you're at the shelter?

Here in our place,there are also some people who are homeless and are living in slums or under bridges where they can have some protections in day and night time. Most of these people are from provinces who seek and hope for a greener pasture in the city. But since they don't have any relatives,or they might have relatives but even their relatives are also poor ones that are just renting...so they can not just live with their relatives. Now,these people while seeking or looking for any job,they also look for any shelter and since they don't have money,they end up being homeless. And the more people coming from provinces with same story makes the population of homeless people bigger and bigger everyday. No matter how the government are giving them housing projects,the population rate is also flowing that housing projects are not enough to sustain these homeless people.