Individual,

I listed the many reasons for homelessness in
my earlier post. They have been established.

Individual a thousand then more reasons exist for homelessness
We if we believed this government, we would say get a job, but too all over regional Australia they, Scomos mob, privatise the jobs, turn them in to casual ones
Then scream Socialism at any one reminding them we subsidise farmers why not the true poor
Why not care about every one, why not if welfare frighten them give everyone a job on fair wages
Building homes, even caravan park style for the homeless is work for some
No one should ever need to sleep on our streets
Individual it seems likely we spend more on offshore detention than we do housing our own homeless

Foxy, I don’t know why you think none of us understand poverty. I was raised in extreme poverty. Then, after I married, I was widowed young and left with four teenage children to finish raising alone, in a remote area where employment options were limited.
So, what did I do? I moved to where I could get a job, albeit a low paying one, then I studied at night to reregister as a nurse so I could increase my options and improve my income so I wasn’t dependent on welfare.
This country offers so many support systems for single mothers and disabled people, compared to most of the world. So many opportunities to retrain or study. Options to move to another town, especially in country areas, where towns are dying for lack of residents and rental is dirt cheap.
And having children is no excuse for women not to work. Mothers have been working for decades, in fact the percentage of women with children in the workforce has always been much higher than most people imagine, right back to the Industrial Age, when mothers worked in factories, and even further back.
As for the mentally ill, and addicts, well they will probably always be homeless because the mentally ill don’t want to conform and the addicts don’t want to spend any money on rent.
And as I previously pointed out, people need to learn to share housing. Yes, there may be far more people than there are homes, but if they shared, as happens all over the world, there wouldn’t be such a gap.

My own empirical knowledge as to the reasons for homelessness is two-fold. Some choose to be h'less, (generally the young) because they don't wish to comply with the household's rules and standards their parents set at home.

However, among this group are young people who've suffered terrible privations in their own home, by one or both parents or siblings, and only wish to escape, from this toxic environment. This particular group also has a higher than average suicide rate.

The second group, are those usually of the older generation, who through whatever circumstances, often alcoholism, unemployment anti-social behaviour, poor hygiene, mental illness, or just people (including a few females), who're difficult to get on with, are homeless, not by choice, but nobody wants them, neither family, former friends or society.

These are the people who generally spend the remainder of their sorry lives in inner-city parks, on benches, and where many of them will die. Sadly among this group are folk who'll have their earthly remains, consigned somewhere in 'Potters Field' at Rookwood. A special place for most of Sydney's itinerants, when God finally takes them.

Therefore I don't give a tinkers cuss what all these 'academics experts' claim, as to the reason for homelessness or otherwise - let these 'experts' put on a set of 'blues' and spend a couple of years in the inner city streets & parks and learn, and cut out all this baloney & bullshite!

Dear Big Nana,

I was speaking in general terms about some of the
myths that exist concerning the poor and poverty
as a result of the findings of surveys, sociological
research and opinion polls. My post was not directed
at you or necessarily any of the posters on this
forum. Interesting that you should think it was.

Many of us have lived in poverty and climbed out of
it. My family arrived in this country with only the
clothes on their back, not knowing the language,
and managed to raise a family, work hard, buy their
own home through blood, sweat, and tears - while
at the same time fighting the prejudices of that
time.

a livelihood in engineering and unlike you I can earn an income and be a super smart sociologist at the same time.......
Mr Opinion,
I'd have no problem believing if you'd said you're an 18 year old student but this ? Sorry bala!