We are all homeless on this planet, none of us feel at home, some have houses, but our true home is in the Spirit and the enlightened know that.

They know its a very unjust society that provides housing based on perceived human worth.

Yes, though I have trouble feeling sympathy for those who are employed and homeless and refuse to consider moving to a more affordable area. Moving is not easy, but it is something many of us do, especially as rents rise to the point of unaffordability. The fact that anyone is "priced out" of an area is deplorable, but it's a reality. But there are people here who would rather live in an illegally-parked RV than leave the area.

Always, I’d be heartless if I didn’t

Yes...they have a shit deal in life...they're often the people most in need of support and help, but they get a fat lot of fuck all except derision from most of society...damn right I feel for them..

I find that a lot of people who have contempt for the homeless tend to be a couple missed paycheques away from homelessness themselves.

Very much. But where it gets tricky is if you live in a big city, like I did in the past, it becomes a part of the landscape. You can't walk down a street without getting asked for money. You almost have to desensitize yourself just to deal. So empathetic people can become hardened to it.

I was homeless for a span of two years. This was do to my parents evicting me the day after my 18th birthday.

During that time I would learn others are homeless primarily for one of two reasons. Either they thought buying drugs was more important than paying bills, or they believed jobs were a means of controlling the populace.

Then there were people who only played homeless to get sympathy and/or easy money.

empathize* always

They are still people. Anyone can become homeless no matter what job they have , the amount of money , background or age. It’s best to look beyond that , see them as a person not for what they don’t have so don’t judge them or assume anything. And yes I try to help them if I can , I give what I can Afford.

Why would I waste emotion like that? I work every day to get the homeless back on their feet by getting them over their addictions and finding them jobs. The mentally ill are much harder to deal with since the government has closed the institutes that used to house them.

Yeah I do, a lot of em just have problems and are in a bad place with themselves. I've also met some very cunty people who're also homeless and have been really ungrateful and expectant of me, so like everyone else some people who're homeless are also cunts. That's why I have to say somewhat, for others I do a lot.

i pretty much just push that thought out of my mind bc if i gave the homeless the appropriate amount of sympathy, i wouldn't be able to function day-to-day & it wouldn't help them one bit

Definitely. Several years ago when I was living on a college campus, I volunteered in this program called Sunday Snacks, where a group of students and non-students would head to downtown Chicago to help homeless people. It was awesome.

wont ever...The homeless were too lethargic or spendthrift when young so as never to save a penny to build a roof overhead.. Now they beg for alms .

I do

Most of the homeless are intentionally homeless. I know this for a fact. I was a supertramp for many years. It was a drunken lark.

I volunteered for 30 years at a homeless shelter, whenever I could. In the beginning I mostly encountered people who were involved with drugs, or mental illnesses—or both. In my state, there were public mental hospitals which became privatized—with the result that patients whose families couldn’t pay for their treatment and weren’t assessed as “dangerous” were either transitioned to halfway houses or just released. It’s been in the last 10 years that I started seeing working people in the shelters, people priced out of the housing market, families. Usually it’s temporary, but lately there has been an increase in elderly people who have lost apartments after living someplace for decades, then having the building bought by someone who jacks up the rent.
As an older person, I fear that happening some day when I’m at my most vulnerable.

Yeah, it's messed up that we have problems like this still.

Without any doubt

Ofcourse I do.

yes

Yes because I know what it's like not to have.

It seems like somewhere there should be someone who loves that person enough to take them in. And if there is nobody then there is probably a reason for that.