It was by a woman psychologist & she said therapy is helpful but most people just need more money. An economy for all would solve a ton of our ills. Instead, we have a bubble, predatory system that sucks everything from the lower classes up to the top.

Reaganism's legacy...

Others can't/won't stay in housing due to mental illness.

A big obstacle: there aren't enough free homes.

the most important thing is a job. to be employed i might have to move to another city or state , home or not.

Many of the chronic homeless will never hold a job again.

and 653,000 homeless on one January night in 2023.

https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness/

Yes, it would. Stunning numbers.

I didn't realize how much Americans hated the poor until I took a course while in college at UCLA entitled "Law and the Poor." What an eye opener that was. Want to know who is favored and who is hated? See how the law treats them.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

― Anatole France

to describe an entire country's citizenry. To the extent negative attitudes toward the poor exist, the more likely word is "disdain", but even that, when referencing the past, is hardly unique to America. For comparison, one need only recall the treatment of the poor as depicted by Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo in their respective countries. As for the 20th century, consider the efforts of Franklin Roosevelt (The New Deal) and Lyndon Johnson (The Great Society) in alleviating poverty along with like minded reformers in Europe.

Of course I'm not referring to every single individual living in America, but rather America as a whole, when I say Americans hate the poor. The poverty reduction efforts that started with FDR and LBJ, particularly the welfare policies for the under 65 poor, have been slashed and maligned. What the French-built Statue of Liberty refers to as the "tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free" our president-elect refers to as "vermin." Republicans just rode that wave of hatred right into the White House and secured control of Congress.

And this is nothing new. As shown by polls conducted by the Pew Research Center, the American public does not seem to be overly concerned about high poverty rates and low and stagnant economic mobility, although it is likely that many Americans don’t realize just how high poverty rates really are or just how low economic mobility rates really are. In annual polls conducted between 2007 and 2015, a little over half of Americans typically thought that “dealing with problems of the poor and needy should be a top priority.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-are-the-presidential-candidates-saying-about-poverty-and-opportunity/

Conservatives and their lap dog media outlets have been demonizing the poor for as long as I can remember.

In AZ has a TV commercial aimed at helping students that are homeless. It asks them to go online and register for "free" glasses. How in the Hell are homeless people going to see the ad and or use the internet? 😮‍💨

In this day and age, the phone can be more important to some than the home.

is frequently a prerequisite to jobs, housing, access to benefits etc.

it's not remotely that easy.

After this election it is clear that they do not think at all.

Americans just elected a rapist.

A majority of voting Americans are clearly mentally ill.

requires approximately zero thinking.

Now the people that need service for mental health that can't function right are left to their own devices. Mentally ill people are 15x more likely to not be able to hold a job, struggle with everyday life, and use self-medication to cope.

Thus begins the downward spiral. Thanks to Ronnie Raygun.

the crisis really got going when the pharmaceutical opiate crisis made 10s of 1000s of people into useless drug addicts.

And help for homeless and others.