If churches are going to be a tax free non-profit, we need to see ‘services done’ at roughly a similar order of magnitude as their receipts would allow. And no, a couple of cots is not the answer. Perhaps a small apartment building with 8 units that the church owns and operates, and provides permanent residency for a small local population of the unhoused.
Other wise I think they church should be disbanded and its organizers held liable for tax fraud.
Splatterphace@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You have no clue wtf you’re talking about
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ever lived near a significant homeless population?
Soulg@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
some homeless people got there by making bad choices.
But, you know what I’ll say it, making a few bad choices shouldn’t convict you to a life on the street and being treated as subhuman by people around you
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I agree.
But you also can’t help someone unless they want to be helped. There are people out there who will take every advantage of any resources available while making absolutely no effort to change the pattern of behavior that led them there.
Splatterphace@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Motherfucker, I’ve been homeless a lot in my life and I live/work downtown, surrounded by all types of homeless.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Motherfucker,
I’m sure you have us no responsibility for how you ended up homeless. The world just happens to you, and your actions have no influence over your life whatsoever.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Not only do I live pretty close to a tent city of homeless people, I’ve spent a lot of time in San Francisco interviewing homeless people there back when I was in high school working for the school paper.
You have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I too live near the San Francisco and know there is no linear answer. Odd how even in an anticdote we still corroborate that there are more factors to why homeless people cannot find housing. Odd. Does that mean we have confirmation bias? Or does that mean facts support our theories?