So many homeless

dex · ‎03-09-2010

The homeless population in my area keeps growing.It is a huge problem that doesn't have a solution.I think ithis is a sign for a uncertain future that has me worried for all families who are struggling to keep themselves solvent.I worry about my son and his friends who are trying to make their way and struggling to pay their student loans,car payments and live their lives.

phoenixbrd · ‎03-27-2010

Yes, your heart is in the right place. There are many challenges. Perhaps we can be still and emotionally support those who are beginning their journey in life. Sometimes this is the best, and most needed assistance we can give realizing that concern/worry only fosters insecurity in those we love.

embgm · ‎07-02-2014

I agree with you about the homeless. I knew a woman at work with some life skill challenges.She worked part time because management was really keeping her as a mercy case. But she moved from one low rent room to another. Stayed at people's homes temporarily. Her family didn't really want her so she had no home. She even spent a couple of nights in Wal-Mart because it was open all night. This woman had a bad childhood, then was a battered wife and when her husband finally wound up in jail she needed to support three kids. She was unable to thus lost custody of them. The kids are all grown with their own lives and did very little to help their mom.Her mom wouldn't take her in. Finally her son stepped up to the plate found her low income housing ,free health insurance and got her on disability. This after years of her hopping couches,living on the street ,in shelters and in a $600 car she purchased from her tax return. So I agree with you such sorrow and hardship in this world. My son is struggling paying his students loans. He has a good job but now is married and has 2 children. So the high payment per month are not that easy to handle as they were when he was single. Many are in the same boat unfortunaely. There will be high numbers of homeless because it's hard to fight your way back.

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@embgm wrote:
I agree with you about the homeless. I knew a woman at work with some life skill challenges.She worked part time because management was really keeping her as a mercy case. But she moved from one low rent room to another.

Stayed at people's homes temporarily. Her family didn't really want her so she had no home. She even spent a couple of nights in Wal-Mart because it was open all night.

This woman had a bad childhood, then was a battered wife and when her husband finally wound up in jail she needed to support three kids. She was unable to thus lost custody of them.

The kids are all grown with their own lives and did very little to help their mom.Her mom wouldn't take her in. Finally her son stepped up to the plate found her low income housing ,free health insurance and got her on disability.

This after years of her hopping couches,living on the street ,in shelters and in a $600 car she purchased from her tax return. So I agree with you such sorrow and hardship in this world. My son is struggling paying his students loans. He has a good job but now is married and has 2 children.

So the high payment per month are not that easy to handle as they were when he was single. Many are in the same boat unfortunaely. There will be high numbers of homeless because it's hard to fight your way back.

hckynut(john)

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

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@dex

I agree, and unfortunately many of them are Veterans of the United States Armed Forces. As far as many of the others? Sure, everyone has problems, but many invite them upon themselves. While I have empathy for some that do this, I do not have sympathy for them.

College loans to me fall into a certain category, and if the money was used to get a higher education, it was their choice, and/or, maybe their mistake. Unless they are above mentioned US Armed Forces Veterans?

I grew up in Public Housing Projects and when my age was still in single digits, it was not hard for me to understand why some families, regardless of their source of income, seemed to be getting poorer and poorer. Won't go into that other than to say, they made their choices and their children paid the toll.

We don't have that overwhelming problem where we live. I am guessing that many cities, closer to borders might have more than us here in the Midwest. Our present home is only a few minutes from our State Line, but that is not a border.

hckynut(john)

PamfromCT · ‎05-22-2014

Yes, such a heartbreaking problem. Connecticut is perceived as such a wealthy state, but there are so many struggling here for food, shelter, etc. Every person or family has an individual story. How painful to see, despite the efforts of so many dedicated people and organizations. I was brought up in the belief THERE BUT THE GRACE OF GOD GO I. And according to statistics, many families are only a few pay checks away from being homeless. Hopefully, we will all come together to help those struggling without judging them. It is not a sin to be poor.

Kim-QVC · ‎06-14-2015

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Cookie2025 · ‎03-10-2010

@dex wrote:
The homeless population in my area keeps growing.It is a huge problem that doesn't have a solution.I think ithis is a sign for a uncertain future that has me worried for all families who are struggling to keep themselves solvent.I worry about my son and his friends who are trying to make their way and struggling to pay their student loans,car payments and live their lives.

Worrying is a sin.

I don't worry for my Son. If I find myself in that place I step back and remember how I supported myself when I was 18 living with 3 other females in a 2 bedroom 2 bath apartment in Alexandria Va. The rent in that place in 1978 was $720 !

We all survived and thrived.

Give your Son (and his friends) a vote of confidence instead of doubting he will 'make it'. Be his cheerleader.

happycat · ‎09-18-2010

Yes, it is terrible. A family memeber has a job where whe sees a lot of homeless. She has told me many times that a lot of these folks are mentally ill, have been evaluated by drs where she works. And, like @hckynut said, a lot of them are military. I think its pathetic that we don't take care of these people.

Its not right.