>usually it’s because housing is expensive
I'm sure you don't mean that as an endorsement of giving people bus tickets as a "solution".
Can you explicitly state why that is not helpful, to educate people?
I'm sure you don't mean that as an endorsement of giving people bus tickets as a "solution".
Can you explicitly state why that is not helpful, to educate people?
They’re human and like all people they build a life over time, they have neighbors and friends and possibly family nearby that love and support them.
There are also annoying logistical challenges to moving that are harder if you’re homeless. Finding a new doctor is hard, harder still if you’re restricted to free or reduced cost clinics. Finding a food bank or getting a PO Box or a church or a job.
I took a greyhound as a kid from Vicksburg to Seattle (along the southern then northern route, over 4 days), and got to witness this first hand.
Anyways, you just don’t survive being homeless in Great Falls Montana, so either you are dead or you first wind up in Spokane, then eventually in Seattle.
I see where "bus tickets" sounded like "sending people on an odyssey to a huge metropolis a thousand miles away" but I wasn't thinking of that so specifically.
Five miles can make a drastic difference in the cost of housing.