03-18-2011, 04:49 PM
I do not support the people on the side of the road with "please help" signs but I am an avid supporter of our local homeless mission. Homeless people and families do have a place to go if they are willing to live by the rules of the mission. Unfortunately many of them are not able to give up their vises or have mental illness that complicates things. Those people turn away from available assistance and I'm not sure how they can be helped.
A few years ago our local paper ran a story on our local homeless and featured a woman living under a railroad bridge, painting a very sorry picture of her life. Her family wrote in to the paper explaining that assistance had been offered to her many times but she had always refused it due to mental illness that she suffers from.
The topic of how to help the homeless doesn't need to be on the political side as it can be discussed with compassion, even if that means tough love, right here.
A few years ago our local paper ran a story on our local homeless and featured a woman living under a railroad bridge, painting a very sorry picture of her life. Her family wrote in to the paper explaining that assistance had been offered to her many times but she had always refused it due to mental illness that she suffers from.
The topic of how to help the homeless doesn't need to be on the political side as it can be discussed with compassion, even if that means tough love, right here.