Helping the Homeless and Changing Attitudes

With a growing number of people inclined to help others without asking anything in return, our attitudes should change to be more accommodating, more giving, and more willing to help. This in turn changes the atmosphere around us. Getting homeless persons back on their feet and off the streets would be good for everyone. A few communities have successfully done so, using a combination of “supportive” housing that would likely be group-home style housing with staff and counselling services.

Ideally when we help get them off the streets, they would develop job skills, find employment and move into their own apartments. Studies show that housing the chronically homeless adults produced a 78 percent reduction in emergency room costs — a price tag that would have eventually been passed on to the ta spent 84 percent fewer days in jail, largely due to a decrease in crimes like loitering and begging.

There is no harm in helping the homeless. Most persons perceive them in the negative light and generalize saying they are all drug addicts etc. but homeless persons just need a little help and taking care of to get them back on the streets to being normal members of society.

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