The way I understand it is that author means to take homeless people into a system with specialists, facilities, funding to help them out. We have health care systems to treat medically ill, similarly we need to reform welfare systems to be able to extend hands to homeless people.
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Oh not talking about the homeless per se @dangis @felixxx, I tihnk what i really meant is not to criminalize people by default (which is punishment), so i went for an opposing verb which is healing?
What I don't agree on is, that you sound like you want the government to fix it.
I believe we should decriminalize and then get the government out of people's lifes.
A state funded welfare system like the health care system can never synthesize tolerance or inclusiveness - let alone compassion.
@dangis that's a great idea. ironically, it's already been tried and the programs were done away with for a variety of reasons that ultimately had to do with money. Take a look at this article if you're interested. Of course, it's only one article but it paints a fairly cursory yet not inaccurate portrait of what happened. http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html?pagewanted=all
What if they don't want 'help' ?