People like her make me proud

The number of fake homeless begging cases is sad. Back when I lived in NYC I remember a man was begging in the subway and a woman offered him a banana and he said he only accepted money WTF

It's not that simple. I work with a homeless population. They need money, and jobs, and housing, and medical care, and mental health care, and all the things other people need. One of the biggest issues is trying to figure out which one needs to come first.

Also, a lot of hjomeless are that way for a reason. They have severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or other isduesvwhich make intetacting with the public impossible, which completely rules out holding a job. They also either refuse government assistance or cannot attain it due to lack of identification or ability to communicate

Addiction and mental illness are definitely the 1 and 1A of homelessness causes, and more often than not they're not exclusive. Most of the folks I work with are proud and don't much like the idea of getting government assistance.

The "street homeless" are actually a small portion of our countries homeless population. They are often suffering from mental illness and addiction and keeping a job is nearly impossible. Many, many homeless people are living in cars and couch surfing and you see them at their jobs every day but you don't know they are homeless because you have this ignorant idea that homeless people are drug addicts who don't work and are less valuable people who don't deserve care and love and humanity.