My wife has a friend that lives in Colorado and is frequently homeless. She has an illness that crops up periodically and results in her missing work, the result being that she keeps getting fired from each job she gets. We, along with other friends, send her funds on occasion to help out when she needs it. She really is trying to keep a job, and never had issues like this until she got sick. Here's the kicker, she has literally been told by welfare workers that it is a shame she isn't a drug addict so that they could help her get housing!
And this is why American government is twisted. Someone said it earlier, follow the money. The government and its capital entities can’t make money off the homeless or the hospice so they turn to people with drug addictions and felony convictions. They can make a lot of cash with problems like this. But they keep pumping that crap out to them with lesser sentences for the dealers, programs, funding. I’m tired of seeing it myself. I work one full time job and two part times, I’m raising a family , staying out of trouble and I am a progressive member of society, what do I get? Higher taxes and less respect.