TheTowerBard t1_j74bjs6 wrote on February 3, 2023 at 11:39 PM

Reply to comment by Necessary_Cat_4801 in As homelessness crisis deepens, rural children pay the price by FearandLoathinginBTV

Oh for sure. I’m not suggesting that’s not true. I’m saying that OF COURSE there are homeless folks here that aren’t from here. There are homeless folks everywhere that aren’t from there. They move to places where they can manage to get by. Often that means a warmer part of the country in the winter, but if they can stay closer to where they are from and not have to take a bus all the way to Florida just so they don’t freeze to death in the winter, they will. Again, this is why this is a national issue and not a local issue. We need to stop thinking of it as such.

Necessary_Cat_4801 t1_j74eatr wrote on February 3, 2023 at 11:59 PM

The issue the advocate was talking about was how ending homelessness in vermont is daunting. It's much tougher to end homelessness in NH, NY and MA as well. He has a point. My understanding is a lot of the homeless in california are from red states. Many places criminalize homelessness like towns in florida are doing. So when a state offers any sort of benefits or is warm or is warm and offers benefits like california they are flooded with homeless people. More than they can reasonably be expected to deal with. It does seem that vermont is experiencing that to some degree and it does make ultimately finding housing for all of these people much more difficult.