Homeless migration to RVs creating problems

westernrvparkowner wrote:
Unless your definition of employed includes begging on the street corner or collecting large amounts of cans for the deposit the vast majority of homeless are unemployed and unable to be employed. The family burdened by student loans living on the streets makes for great TV, so that is what the news seeks out. Making them the needle to look for in the giant homeless haystack. there is no interest in putting the actual poop in the street, mentally ill, aggressive panhandling, street person on television. It doesn't draw viewers, doesn't elicit sympathy and doesn't raise funding for the homeless activists. It just hardens public opinion against the homeless.
Such situations as you described are a tiny percentage of the homeless population.

Well excuse me, I apparently lack your experience. I could only spend a few days a week for few weeks as a volunteer at a shelter, before the idea this is happening in what is advertised as the richest country in the world was just to depressing.
Yes, many I met had drug and mental issues. But many that I met, and all that had kids with had job working for some corporation, some more than one. In this Metro area, is about the same as the nationwide average.
BTW, I spent some time without doors in the early '80s. For me, it was self-inflected. I refused to let work interfere with my drinking. Back then, most of the people in my condition where homeless because of some kind of drugs. Now I think that for many the do drugs because they are homeless. Or because of the war on drugs, they can't get into housing.
And sure, the "Help wanted" signs we walk past every day make some think homeless do not want to work. Just for ships and grins, next time you have a few minutes, ask for a app and fill it out. Most times the 2nd line will be no issue for you.