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The Chicken or the Egg

jgrinnell3
Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:23:12 GMT

Is it better to deal with the causes of homelessness or the reality of not having a place to stay? Do we blame the individual for causes beyond their control?

melrosezou
Sun, 22 Jan 2017 18:34:49 GMT

Both. I recently saw an article asking if we dealt with educating people that rape is unacceptable, or we teach people to defend themselves in case it happened. Both arguments were strong, but just like the problem of homelessness, we need to address both. A lot of people I talked to about homelessness believe that the individual had a role in his homelessness. Although that may be true, I don't think that "blaming" people is the right course of action we need to take in order to solve the problem.