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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep in mind, many of these people are still homeless by choice. We need to face the fact that shelters and social programs won't have the same affect on them as they do with the temporary homeless or families. [/quote]

"Choice" is a loaded word. For many people, homelessness is the result of many circumstances, and choices, that led them to a situation to which they have adapted, and without significant support have a very hard time adapting or re-adapting to maintaining stability in a permanent place to live.

I know someone who has been homeless by choice since he lost the house but had to pay the mortgage in a divorce 20 years ago. He figured out ways to make money while travelling (some of it remote IT work, some of it driving cars and pets cross country for people) and this has been his life for 20 years. That's a totally different scenario than what you are probably thinking of as homelessness "by choice". [/quote]

that literally sounds like a choice. assuming no mental illnesses or drug addiction, he could have let the house go into foreclosure and rented a place and got a decent paying IT job. something else was going on. [/quote]

I know it's not relevant to the topic here, but no. He would never have defaulted on the mortgage for his ex and his kid. The traveling started with some kind of corporate decision pertaining to the baggage handlers which gave him 3 years of free air travel. He couldn't afford that AND a place of his own. He hit, I don't recall, 100+ countries before he mostly ended the international travel. I knew him before all this started but he has a blog about his decision to live rent-free while traveling, and a large number of loyal followers.[/quote]

dude has a blog about living “rent free”? this is obviously a lifestyle choice. I have a friend who lived like that on and off for years. When she decided she was done she got a good job and bought a house. [/quote]

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