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Jimmy_kong253 t1_jduvr9r wrote

Reply to comment by RainCloudz973 in How is the homeless situation in Newark train station made possible? by [deleted]

But what happens if there are services and help available and every time they come around all these homeless people keep telling them no but because we can't force somebody to seek help. Some of these homeless people will tell you they want help yet they turn down help for years . What do you become that if what you're asking for your offered and you keep saying no and I'm not talking about just shelter I'm talking about their offered medical help counseling and shelter and I've seen them turn it down over and over in my 20 years of working in and around Newark Penn. I don't know what else to consider an individual at that point a squatter we can use squatter it's not the proper word but if it makes you feel better then we'll call them squatters

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Newarkguy1836 t1_jduzmqg wrote

The liberal & media narrative goes like this:

"These are people down on their luck"

This isn't the great depression . Over 90% of these individuals are mental ill cases incapable of following rules. They overwhelmingly refuse to stay in shelters bc they can't shoot drugs or drink there. Neither can they bring their shopping carts & other stuff they hoarde. Nothing is more upsetting than returning to "your spot" to find everything has been cleared of another homeless person went thru "your stuff" while you were in shelter.

Insane asylums were closed based on the theory we could trust the mentally I'll to stick to the medicine regimen. Most don't.

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RainCloudz973 t1_jduwdtc wrote

That’s another issue to tackle as a city then. But language contains intention, so people will critique inappropriate uses of it in order to curtail the potential for bad intentions seeping into one’s actions. For example, I have less trust in someone’s intentions who refers to queer people as “f*gs” when discussing how to help the queer community, than someone who speaks of them respectfully. It’s not a perfect science of course, but a safe general rule of thumb to keep people on a positive agenda when it comes to fixing societal problems.

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