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Faces of Homelessness

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Not having an address is a huge hurdle to get a job. There should be laws against it or else it just creates a downward cycle.
- In my country it is illegal too. A place of residency is required to get bank accounts and jobs. But we also have some sort of vanity addresses which the social net provides to those without a home. These address are used to receive correspondence and allows homeless people to be official citizens of a town.
- Imagine what happens to foster kids who age out. Imagine applying for jobs at 17, knowing that you’ll need to support yourself, and then trying to figure out whether putting down the group home as your “permanent address” is a smart idea or not. (About a third of girls who age out end up pregnant quickly, another third will end up in sex work.)
  Something like half of homeless people were in the foster care system. The foster care system in the United States is disgusting - group home positions are poorly paid and unpleasant, which incentivizes the wrong kind of people to want to work in them. “Troubled teens” are vulnerable to all kinds of extra abuse - look up what was happening with cops and kids at the Tulsa juvie last year.
  These are people who have never been loved. People who were put through the meat grinder of the human soul that is DHS care, were thrown out on the street and told to figure it out.
- Absolutely agree with you, but, unpopular opinion probably, I also don't want a lazy ass who can't or doesn't want to get a job to be homeless. Like, I don't care how much of an asshole you are and how many drugs you take and that you don't care to hold a job, I still want you to have shelter, food, and basic necessities. Let alone kids of these people.
  
  Remember how in the 90s "The Dude" Big Lebowski, the laziest man in Los Angeles County, was still able to afford his rent. That wasn't even considered unrealistic back then either, like a few mid-20 year olds could afford a loft in Manhatten off a coffeeshop salary (FRIENDS) the only complaint of realism was their loft was too big.
- Laws against not having an address? That just (further) criminalizes poverty.
  
  I think they’re saying laws against discrimination for not having an address.
  
  Now that makes a lot more sense than the way they worded it.
  Unfortunately not gonna happen under this Reich.
  
  No, reread what they said. Laws against employers requiring an address. Don't be so quick to assume.
  
  Even reading what they wrote, the context and intent were there, but the way it was written doesn't align with their intent.
  
  It's pretty easy to infer what they meant based on context. Provided you're trying to understand what they mean and not divorcing all intent from the words.
  
  But if I can't get upset at things someone clearly didn't mean, why bother going online at all?
  
  Not to brag, but I can get angry without even reading comments these days.
  
  “It” means the huge hurdle. It could have been better, for sure, but it’s fine.
  
  I believe it’s the other way around: laws against the discrimination of people who do not have an address.
  
  I would say: make a law forcing governments to provide a free administrative address on demand where you can get your mail.
  
  I was thinking making it illegal to require an address and use email for communication. Public libraries usually have free WiFi. They can check their emails there. If they do not have their own devices, they can use a public computer.
  Why would a physical address be required at all?
  
  No, you see it's illegal for anyone to sleep under a bridge, not just the poors.
  
  Sadly there are some people who believe that.

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