Tonight I saw a homeless girl. She was wearing a hoodie and nothing else, nothing covering her feet, legs, or genitals. It was dark and some distance away so I can’t be sure but she appeared to be a teenager. Her movements were very childlike. She was scavenging through a pile of rotted fruit outside a produce warehouse. She ran off when a man approached her. My heart physically aches.😥
There’s an increase of so called Housing First projects over here that provide housing to people that need it where they then can get help for their problems. This way they will at least have a place to stay and some sort of stability. These projects can have great results in my experience. Once people stop worrying about where they can safely sleep and eat, they’ll have more time to work on their problems.
You’d also be surprised how much the mind of some people can take. It’s very much on a case to case basis what someone can go through. I’ve had people that went through absolute hell that turned out fine once they had a stable life and I’ve had people that went through seemingly mild trouble that never recovered.