Police in Michigan say a startling discovery was made on the roof of a Michigan grocery store: A woman was living inside the store sign for roughly a year.
Anyone who ever talked or worked with homeless people about housing, knows that turning down housing is normal, because housing offered to homeless people (seen as desperate) will sometimes have worse quality than semi-autonomous living on the street or the illegal. That’s why there are qualified social workers working in homeless services.
I wonder what her reason was. Ive heard that there are a lot of restrictive conditions with public housing services. Maybe excessively so. I can understand the reasoning behind things like curfews, but I would despise having such rules imposed on me as a grown adult.
When you make it illegal for unhoused people to even exist in public, don’t be surprised when they find places to hide.
Another story says she was offered housing assistance and turned it down.
Anyone who ever talked or worked with homeless people about housing, knows that turning down housing is normal, because housing offered to homeless people (seen as desperate) will sometimes have worse quality than semi-autonomous living on the street or the illegal. That’s why there are qualified social workers working in homeless services.
I wonder what her reason was. Ive heard that there are a lot of restrictive conditions with public housing services. Maybe excessively so. I can understand the reasoning behind things like curfews, but I would despise having such rules imposed on me as a grown adult.
Sometimes the deal for housing assistance is just terrible. That’s why some of the unhoused in my area turned down assistance.
Housing assistance is rarely ever “hey, here are some keys, rent is 500/mo. Enjoy your new appartement!”
If we just did as the finns did, life would be so much better for so many people
What do the Finns do?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle-helsinkis-radical-solution-to-homelessness