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Originally Posted by Flyers999
Too easy to steal. If you’re talking public housing, you have to nail everything down.
The northeast city I was from, used to partner with a charitable organization, I forget the name. They would interview any new homeless, do a drug test and background check. If they were clean, didn’t have a police record and has a reasonable cry-story, they’d refer them to a network of friends who would temporarily give them shelter and help them back on their feet.
The others would be given to the “city services,” which included sleeping on a cot in a large auditorium or basement. Many didn’t like that situation and would rather sleep in the parks because they didn’t want to follow rules and have to deal with the other homeless.
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The key in the referenced post: "services". I assume that cot in the auditorium came along with a certain amount of sustenance.
It was on my first trip to Thailand, nearly 30 years ago now, when my wife and I went to visit the in-laws. I was fascinated by that culture and how it operated. Seemed as if half the population was selling something and the other half buying, but all busy. I saw almost no idle people, such as the panhandlers or obviously homeless as we see around here at times. Curious, I asked my wife what the welfare system was in Thailand.
Her answer?
"Simple. If you don't work, you don't eat".
Amazing, what a human being is capable of finding within himself when the alternative might very well mean starvation.