Help with project on homelessness

homeless are drunks
homeless are blights on society
they are too lazy to get a job
its what imma be one day

Assumption 1 - Homeless people are homeless because of their own faults, drug use ... etc.

whenever a homeless person asks for money, it's to buy drugs or alcohol
all homeless people are uneducated and come from poor or bad backgrounds

If a homeless person has a funny sign, they haven't been homeless that long.

the homeless don't have homes they could go to

homeless people are smelly.

homeless people sleep in cardboard boxes and on park benches.
homeless people don't get jobs because they are lazy.
homeslessness is a choice
all homeless people are panhandlers/all panhandlers are homeless

They are homeless by choice.
They talk to themselves.
They steal.
They don't want to improve their situation.
They urinate in public on public property.
They don't bath.
They don't brush their teeth.
They collect stray dogs.
They're alcoholics and/or drug users.
Their tax free income is more than the average American net salary.

everyone's already listed most of the ones I would have put.

but I would also say that "all homeless people are old." just because I have worked with homeless kids, and that's definitely an aspect of homelessness that I would personally choose to cover.

to go even farther: all homeless people are old men.

Most homeless people are chronically homeless.

This is actually a pretty damn good list. So much so that I can't think of anything else to add. Good luck with this Morgan!

(if they're kids)
They're escaping a bad home situation.
They've been abused in some way
They will think they're justified in ripping you off (society owes them)

Homesless people are jobless

people are homeless to piss me off.

they enjoy being homeless
they love drugs more than living in a house.

I always think homeless people seem pretty darned sad, but I'm pretty sure that's not a mis-con-or-perception.

I used to work with homeless people alot, some things that are true, but not well known:

1. Some homeless are highly educated they just like the gypsy lifestyle
2. Homeless people will drink 'listerine' or shoe polish to get drunk
3. They live on certain 24 hour buses
4. Every bridge over a creek in a large urban area is home to between 2-8 bums (on average)
5. Many bums have damage to one or more sections of the brain (drug use, injury, disease) this keeps alot of them out of mainstream living.
6. Cops dont like bums
7. Some bus drivers love bums
8. Bums can SHIT AND SMOKE CRACK at the same time (i actually saw this)
9. They can also live under semi-trailers
10. they can be VERY INDUSTRIOUS when it comes to shelter, food and making money

10 things that people ASS-U-Me

1. Bums were born immigrants, white trash, or basically scum and that they propigate that life style due to their genes.
2. Bums dont know calculous (ive met 3 who did)
3. Bums are not intelligent
4. Bums have no money (they usually do, but who is gonna give 1$ to someone who has 100$)
5. Bums have no where to go, no set residence (every major community has hidden tent cities where groups of bums live, under bridges, inside freeway overpasses, abandoned railcars etc)
6. Bums are all crazy
7. All bums are drug users or alcoholics
8. All bums have disease
9. Bums wipe their ass with their hand (sometimes its true)
10. Bums are neglected by the govt (many programs exist to help them)

hopefully that will help

[Edited on Apr 24, 2006 by Dark_Templar]

homeless people hate being homeless (I was shown the contrary of this when I went to NYC for three weeks)

Was your use of the word "bum" intentinal?

They can do it if they want, as long as they are not crazy....oh wait that one is true

Many homeless people are vets.

"They have no homes."
idiotic statement, because a home is an abstract intangible concept, a state of mind.

Right, then, the homeless problem is actually an issue of semantics or philosophy.