This is a truly compelling report Rob. Whenever I see homeless encampments being torn down it is heart breaking knowing the poor have nowhere else to go. How cruel and ignorant of the authorities to be throwing homeless and financially strapped people into psychiatric institutions when they are simply trying to survive. It was shocking to read that many of the homeless are 55+, or in their senior years, and many are still holding down full time jobs. These brutal facts need to be mainstream information so people will not be so judgmental and authorities will finally provide some humane and proper supports to solve the growing problem. As usual Rob your thorough research and humane reporting is outstanding.
Thank you for your thoughts! I agree, and I'm shocked that it isn't getting more attention. Are journalists and politicians so deeply embedded in their prejudices and desires to exploit homelessness for their own political goals that they willfully deny help even to their own elders?
How much clearer can this growing, and urgent crisis, and its SOLUTIONS, be made? Thank you, Rob, for your thorough, fact-based research, which we ignore at our personal and collective peril. What a wake up call.
This is a truly compelling report Rob. Whenever I see homeless encampments being torn down it is heart breaking knowing the poor have nowhere else to go. How cruel and ignorant of the authorities to be throwing homeless and financially strapped people into psychiatric institutions when they are simply trying to survive. It was shocking to read that many of the homeless are 55+, or in their senior years, and many are still holding down full time jobs. These brutal facts need to be mainstream information so people will not be so judgmental and authorities will finally provide some humane and proper supports to solve the growing problem. As usual Rob your thorough research and humane reporting is outstanding.
Thank you for your thoughts! I agree, and I'm shocked that it isn't getting more attention. Are journalists and politicians so deeply embedded in their prejudices and desires to exploit homelessness for their own political goals that they willfully deny help even to their own elders?
How much clearer can this growing, and urgent crisis, and its SOLUTIONS, be made? Thank you, Rob, for your thorough, fact-based research, which we ignore at our personal and collective peril. What a wake up call.