Non-profits could be making the homeless situation worse

[Geese]

A report by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive has stated volunteer organizations are making the homeless situation worse. They "do not have the skills to engage with people who are homeless, and there are examples of their interventions undermining the work of mainstream providers and supporting people to remain or return to the streets," said Mary Higgins. The food stalls and tents were attracting drug dealing and prostitution. The volunteers weren't being properly vetted.

Immediate action ‘needed’ on unregulated homeless services

Dublin Regional Homeless Executive report notes ‘undignified’ model of on-street services

www.irishtimes.com

 

[Moon Bird]

I quit reading at "No attention is paid to nutritional needs or food safety"

 

[Comrade Khan]

Other concerns were expressed about the fact that there is no Garda vetting of volunteers, that people who are recovering addicts, with no other qualifications, are volunteers.”

Nice stigmatization of addiction by this article, awesome.

Also, it's substantially lacking facts and data to back up anything they are saying, it's basically an attack piece of volunteerism and sounds a hell of a lot like "how dare you try to help the people WE are failing"

 

[Deezy]

Homeless advocate groups should call themselves the military and get all the funding to fix everything in a year.

 

[CakeWalker]

i love that there is less than 10,000 homeless in the whole of Ireland - and this article suggests that one volunteers are a problem - but also that this situation (at such a small number in proportion, isn't fixable)

 

[Moon Bird]

i love that there is less than 10,000 homeless in the whole of Ireland - and this article suggests that one volunteers are a problem - but also that this situation (at such a small number in proportion, isn't fixable)

Doing math...

 

[Moon Bird]

Median house price in Ireland is €258,000

According to The Independent (Link) there are 6,023 homeless adults in Ireland. (There are also 2000 homeless Children but I think the remedy for the adult homeless problem should cater for them too...)

So it would cost €1,553,934,000 to give every single homeless person in Ireland a home...

According to the Irish Examiner (Link) homeless accommodation cost €212,000,000

So instead of spending 1.5 billion euros over 7.5 years, why not just house everyone who is homeless and not waste tax payers money until the end of time???

Of course, it would be less than that because there are a lot of homeless couples/families so the reality is less than 7 years of homeless accomodation costs would pay to house every single homeless person in Ireland...

(Yes I know there are many factors to homelessness including mental illness, addition, domestic abuse and so on....but the problem IS solvable. I'm not sure why so many politicians are against solving it once and for all...)

[edit] I had to double post because I fudged up my counting on the original post. Need more fingers...