People donate to homeless people and they will tell others not to treat homeless people differently because they are only human but how many of those people will become true friends with homeless people? How many of them will actually hang out with the homeless people and keep in contact with them like good old mates? How many of them will actually treat the homeless people like they would treat there friends who have heaps of money?

Probably none of them. So what?

Another question may be, how many homeless people are homeless due to the likes of;
Refusing to look for or hold work.
Ruining their previous relationship and finding they have nowhere to live.
Refusing to move to more affordable townships where rents are affordable.

Some people are homeless through choice, or through their direct actions whereby they lost the right to live where they lived.

Is this societies fault?

Now if we redirected funding from the likes of foreign aid, or even slashed immigration, then perhaps we could do more to help. The simple fact is, we don't have the funds to fund everything.

Hey Beth,
Aren't these homeless people you're talking about getting $600 f/n from Centrelink?
Why are they homeless?
Not all rents are as expensive as say Sydney, I'm sure there's places out rural way where rent is $50 a week for a house.

Are these people just lazy and do not have the will to help themselves?
I'm sure many aussies find themselves in trouble and homeless at one point or another, but many have families to fall back on.

I feel sorry for those who fall on hard times through no fault of their own, but the strong and resilient ones won't be there long because they will help themselves out of that situation.

Many find themselves there through bad choices and a life of not taking responsibility for themselves.

Capitalism is the right to choose / work for the life you want for yourself, but you must also take responsibility for yourself if you make the wrong choices.

There's too many people in this country taking a free ride for granted, and for those that choose not to help themselves out of that situation, they can't say that life did not give them the opportunities or choices to do better for themselves in the first place.

Of course I still feel some sympathy for people who are homeless but the level of sympathy I feel 'depends' on the circumstances that transpired to get them where they are and how willing they are to improve their own circumstances.
But if they're not willing to care for themselves why should I?

rehctub - Agree with you, with government newstart plus rental assistance it would be somewhere around $500 plus per 2 weeks.

I think some of the do gooders needs to go and ask questions to find out exactly why people are homeless.

Now if it is monetary then what exactly are they spending the above amount they get on.

If they are spending the money on drugs, booze or cigarettes that is their stupidity.

If people are homeless through no fault of their own government should try to help them, simple fact Australia has no homeless so called refugees but has homeless Australians. That is a problem.

My niece when 13 became 'homeless'. She wanted to hang out with older boys (druggies). She told many lies to police and agencies. They backed her rather than the parents who wanted to put very limited boundaries on the kids (far less than I would of). Many Indigenous homeless still live nomadic lives. Millions is spent on mending smashed up homes after being kicked out for multiply offences. Easy welfare has created much homelessness. Many young kids are now victims of this idiotic socialist policy.