The homeless issue in the United States is horrendous. The liberal run cities are allowing the homeless to take over areas of the city creating squalor without historic precedent in the United States. There are rats, now even bubonic infection, and other serious diseases. Living on the street is defended as if it were a right. Some are even defending using the parks for the homeless and thus having the parks no longer a joyful place for normal citizens and their families.
The solution is very straightforward but expensive. First, it has to be understood that the homeless are 98% of people with serious mental illness or drug problems. So here is the solution.
- A massive church effort to win the homeless through the Gospel, healing centers for addicts like Teen Challenge, and Church mental health facilities. These can provide healing prayer as well.
- Passing laws so that living on the streets is illegal.
- Providing shelters for all homeless. The homeless have to use shelters or be in facilities for the mentally ill.
- Police to enforce the standard that no one lives on the streets.
So why is this not done? My guess is that it is expensive and easier to just ignore the situation and then offer some liberal crocodile tears by showing support by allowing the camps with all their squalor to expand. The homeless are people created in the image of God. They may want to live on the street, but for their sake, we can not allow them to. This is a freedom that we cannot promote.