Yes, and create more social programs to provide free food, clothing, and medicine

Most homeless people aren't happy about it. These people need our help to get a leg up in a society where it's easy to stumble. Just criminalizing these people and punishing them for struggling is inhumane. We should be looking out for our fellow Americans. We need empathy because at any moment, that could be us or someone we love.

We need to help the homeless with their issues. Mentally, physically, psychologically, they need help. If we can help, then why not? It benefits us as a whole.

These people need to be able to get the help they need, they are all people too and deserve it as well.

(ex. Homeless women/children are more at risk for abuse/sexual assault in shelters that don't have enough funding or space)

If we provide more clean and orderly spaces for those in need it lessens the chance of further traumatic experiences that happen in other homeless shelters. It's why the homeless will fake being sick at the ER just so they can have a clean bed and somewhere safe and professional to go. Even the homeless are allowed to have standards and set boundaries on how they want to be treated.

The more these people are treated like human beings and given more help, The more likely they are to pull themselves out of their situations.

Should homeless citizens who have refused available shelter or housing, be allowed to sleep or encamp on public property?" I feel like they should, homeless people have it very rough when you think about it, they have to live without a home, without food, or even clean water. I feel like homeless people should have more access to social programs to provide food, clothing, medicine, and a place to sleep, to help these people get back on their feet. Of course, these people would only be in these places for a little while, or even for however they need just to help them out and get them back on their feet.

Being able to provide someone with the necessities for life allows them to focus on getting a job and securing housing. The government has more than enough money to do so.

We should provide free food, clothing, and medicine to the homeless because this will reduce the risk of bad health and reduce the risk of illness and injury. And we could also help the people that were starving by giving them food too. Just think about the kids too. Not only the adults are the one that are homeless, kids need help too, and you can make that change.

People who are homeless are not all addicted to drugs, alcohol, or anything else harmful to the body. Some of them truly did not do anything wrong to become homeless, but even the ones who did deserve a chance at being able to live a good life again. People dying or suffering on the streets deserve to have food in their beliefs, and a warm place to stay until they can get better or are ready to get back on their feet again to find jobs and be able to support themselves again.

Creating more social programs to aid homeless people will reduce homeless people's death rates, crimes committed by homeless people, and help them to get a job and get off the streets. It is the governments responsibility to care for their citizens, even if those citizens don't rent or own a home.

If we established more programs and used more of our tax dollars to create programs to help homeless people, it creates a feedback loop that would work well to stop the growth of the homeless population in the United States

Homeless should get a voucher to get free clothes at a Second hand store one time a month. Do you know how many clothes are thrown away or end up in landfills. Way to many. Give the clothes to those in need.

I think we should provide more programs that provide free food, clothing, and medicine because it will help solve hunger in our communities. There are a lot of people who are starving because they have no access to the basic health benefits.

I believe you can only help the people who want to be helped. You can’t create a world where no one has to do anything. People should be offered help when they need it and ask for it, but they are their own person and it all hey don’t make a decision to get help then that’s their decision.

Providing for these needs would reduce thefts and violent crimes triggered by the desperation of basic needs not being met.

Housing always comes first. When someone is addicted to drugs, facing a mental health crisis, or other social pressures that brought them to be homeless in the first place, you cannot expect adequate treatment without housing. Food, clothing, and medicine are basic necessities and should be given to all who are struggling to obtain them.

The world would be a better place if everyone was housed and taken care of. The streets would be cleaner. There would be less problems.

If we can not be equal and work together as a world, then making it just a tiny bit easier for the people who have nothing, can not harm the world or our precious little nation anymore than we already have. I contemplated quitting my job today, walking out on society and its corrupt rule and regulations, but its to easy to play the games set by our precious nation why not continue. It is not the governments responsibility to provide help for the people of this world, it is OUR responsibility to help when we see someone in need, if you were in their shoes you would hope for the same generosity.

Just because the people who might refuse shelter might not refuse free food, clothing, and medicine because they might need it to survive. People might refuse the shelter because they would feel like they are intruding on other people and their space.

I don't know a lot of statistics write now but I do know some people who are or were homeless and the only way they have survived is through social programs and being able to sleep in public places.