Another disturbing trend in American government is the sole preoccupation with only housing those families who are being thrown into homelessness through extreme poverty.
according to this website.
http://www.otda.state.ny.us/otda/bhs/default.htm
a New York program describes itself this way. . ."
HHAP provides capital grants and loans to not-for-profit corporations, charitable and religious organizations, municipalities and public corporations to acquire, construct or rehabilitate housing for persons who are homeless "
Here are some photos of the projects
http://www.otda.state.ny.us/otda/bhs/photos.htm
Unfortunately in this country the numbers of good families ending up homeless is on the rise
http://www.misd.net/Homeless/statistics.htm
"Families are now the fastest growing segment of the homeless population, accounting for almost 39% of the nation's homeless. "
Meanwhile the government continues to fudge numbers or cook the books on homelessness while they in turn tax the working class and give their money to large corporations. And now they are mulling over the idea of giving the extremely wealthy an even larger (Fair or Flat) tax break. which will simply throw more and more families toward poverty and homelessness.
Now don't get me wrong, I support helping the homeless with housing for mentally ill and problematic homeless, and it is a step back toward the institutionalization that was once erased before causing a huge number of street people . but this housing is not a permanent solution for the newly increasing homeless families or for our free world.
One begs to wonder that if the economy and the gap between the have and have nots continues. if . . .
Once no simple family worker can afford to live and drive to work while feeding their families in this country due to rising gas prices, housing, high taxes, and poor economic growth. If more and more Americans, through the continuing growth of homeless families in this country, will be living in degrading communal housing complexes just close enough to their major corporational employers, so that they can get to work, and in turn so they (Our corporate government) can sell their labor goods overseas to competing slavery labor country market, with a new free trade policy?
One can only wonder if this is the direction America is heading.
I would rather think that a better way to decrease the future homelessness of American families would be to. . . increase the min wage to above poverty levels, for corporate ceo's to pay American workers what they are truley worth, And for congress to reverse the ever widening gap between the rich and poor in this country by not continuing to write in laws which do just that. (which by the way, draws heavy criticism from the wealthy voting political public.) Don't get me wrong. I am not in favor of putting any burden on the middle class, in fact to reverse this epidemic trend in America it would most likely not phase them at all.
But one thing is certain. if we continue in the direction we currently are. It won't be long before we have even more and more problems than simply the Iraqi,s and our terrorist enemies.