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Originally posted by Cain
We don't have that many homeless people in my country because we have free shelters for them.
But the ones we have are drug addicted and sleep most of the time.
They never ask for money though so nobody pays them attention.
I mean here you never HAVE to be homeless, you can get money from the government when you're broke so they're just choosing to be on the streets.
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I'm from the same country and not everyone chooses to be homeless
You need to have an address in order to receive financial support and some people really do lose everything they have and are not able to receive the money when they no longer have a house, job, or family. Then there are people who actually do not get enough money to afford housing, food, health care etc.... I don't know which city you are from, but in my city the homeless have to pay for shelter, there is no free shelter here and even if it was free it doesn't hurt for them to be able to buy some extra food or a coat sometime, especially during winter etc... And they do ask for money here, because they need to pay for shelter... If you really think EVERYONE chooses to be homeless then you need to talk to some of them or look up some stories online, because some of them choose to be, quite a few of them do not. I'd hate for everyone to judge me like that should I become homeless and I hope people would give me a couple of Euros if I needed them, so I try to do the same for them when I can