The system is a lie.

The outreach programs to persuade homeless people to go to shelters are talked up, but there is no outreach in the shelters to help people with their problems.

These are some questions that homeless people are lucky to be asked ever, even though everyone living in a shelter should be asked these questions every day until everyone is receiving the needed help:

-Do you need help staying sober?

-Do you need support for a past or present loss? If so, would you like individual or group grief counseling or both?

-Do you need support for a past or present trauma?

-Do you need help to stop being sex trafficked?

-Do you know how to read and write?

-Do you need someone to talk to?


The world does not know.  It believes the system lie, which is "You can't force help on people."  The system knows that when it says "You can't force help on people," the world will assume that everything that could be helpful has been tried, when the truth is that nothing has been tried.  

The system doesn't hesitate to force "help" on people whom it has neglected and/or abused until they are out of control and therefore inconvenient enough for the system to know they're alive.  Nobody is asking those questions.

Nobody is asking.

It is probably the same everywhere, all over the country, maybe around the world.

If you are a homeless person who criticizes the system, you'll automatically be accused of being ungrateful.