Do you think increasing funding for shelters will truly help, or will it lead to other challenges?

It will lead to other challenges but everything leads to new challenges.

I think it will lead to bigger problems, I think that the more we fund homeless shelters, the more the homeless take advantage of it and not want to leave or even try to get out of the shelter and start a new style of life

Its not the solution to this. There are better options

If someone refuses help they shouldn't be able to hinder others in public

If you give more of those they wont get a job and rely on them to give them everything

No, although for a moment it'll help, for the most part it will create a relying society.

It might, but further measures should include a method of creating jobs just like how the federal government stimulates the economy by creating jobs. It will also lead to challenges like free riders, so there must be nuanced, reasonable guidelines that must be followed in order to attain access to homeless shelters and aid.

Redesigning affordable housing to focus on "box homes" scaled in mass (e.g. current estimated cost is around $1000-$6000 as home components are inexpensive compared to the land home resides on).

No, bring back mental facilities for drug abusers.

I think it will heavily help the homelessness rate in the US.

It would help some but it would also cause others to take advantage of the privileges that would be available for them.

Funding for mental health is more beneficial than homeless shelter funding.

I believe it will help as long as there is a right plan, so instead of just giving every homeless person into homeless shelters, take into consideration their case and see what suits best.

No, i think it would help. In my home country it has been proven to keep people off the streets.

I think increasing the housing supply and helping these folks get back on their feet through some kind of special rehab program for the homeless needs to be made, a lot of homeless people, a lot of mental health issues, lots of drug addiction, it would be a disservice to those vulnerable folks to just throw them in a shelter whilst not having a turnover or rehabilitation process to get them back into the work force and general productive society.

No I think you solve this by going at the core of why did they become homeless who were they before etc. mental health and job loss are high causes for homelessness. Almost nobody wakes up and decides to be homeless because they are that lazy.

This would be extremely helpful. There is no reason we should be sending billions of dollars to foreign wars when we have such a humanitarian crisis in so many cities around our country. We should set up safe shelters that give people the opportunity to rehabilitate and create pathways for them to lead more productive lifestyles, not enable whatever behaviors, habits, or mental illnesses have relegated them to living on the streets to begin with.

The homeless should be put in work camps filling pot holes all day.

Yes as well as decreasing and capping home and rental properties.

We need strict reform programs to help homeless people get back on their feet and back to being stable productive members of society. Homeless shelters need a reformed system.

it will truly help a lot of people that don't have a home

It will lead to other challenges because most of the funsa will end up just paying for the salaries of the directors who run the shelters or programs.

I think it would help to get people off of their feet and give the opportunity to improve lives and decrease the homeless population. With that being said, I think the more important issue is to provide mental health support and opportunities to these individuals who may be homeless due to internal struggles. Increasing funding may provide a bandaid option but not totally fix the underlying problems.

It will lead to other challenges. There are so many reasons unhoused persons deny shelters or don't quality for housing. There are other problems to focus on first, mental health, substance abuse, and affordable housing.

People try to regulate these homes, give them a place to go and if they turn it into a drug den that is their business, however if they want to keep it clean, lights on and what not they can help in participating in the maintenance of said building

It will lead to other challenges as anytime you give anyone anything somebody will complain that well you didn't give me that much

Other challenges because majority of the homeless don’t want help just want drugs

It will lead to other challenges. It should be a private matter

I think it will lead to other issues. Funding should be a private matter

I think that other challenges will arise as to be expected, but it will allow for more people to have a safe place and be cared for. It could create safer communities and help people have a support network to escape their circumstances

it will help and lead to more difficulties but i believe that those difficulties could be overcome if the community came together

since most homeless people already struggle financially due to addictions, I believe it will lead to other challenges and that they should prioritize health care

If they are not tied to mandatory psychiatric treatment, they will solve nothing.

No. The biggest problem is that man homeless people don't want to be in the shelters.

it might lead to other challengaes but everyone needs somewhere to stay and make sure they aren't being mistreated

Increasing funds would help so that people who are less fortunate can get the care they need

no, there needs to be a private solution which is subsdidized

Homeless shelters are a bandaid on a bullet wound.

It will lead to america in debt more and more people becoming homeless.

Increase Funding For People Who Don't Want Help WHY?

I think increasing for homeless shelters would truly help homeless people and those who are in needs.

It's hard to determine it might help and might not. But let the states create the shelters instead of leaving them homeless.

No it will just spend more taxpayer dollar on a badly run system.

I believe that by increasing funding that homeless shelters are given will help to promote and provide these resources to individuals that are unhoused.

I think increasing funding for shelters will truly help because it will give better resources to the homeless and help out shelters financially.

It will probably have new challenges, but it will be worse without them having shelter

It will lead to more challenges, most people who are homeless are homeless for a reason, drug addiction, criminal, etc. Some of them will just end up back on the streets. I just don't think this idea works

I think it will help but there will also be more challenges along the way

It will open some doors, and shut others. We need to support homeless individuals as a society, but drug use has ran rampant in that community, leading to danger for all groups. We should increase funding to mental healthcare, and support for drug users, but also increase affordable housing for homeless individuals who aren't using.

We need more rounded vision of how to help the people who are currently homeless. Many struggle with addiction, mental health, or disabilities that put them on the streets in the first place. They need support in a number of areas first, as well as better facilities to house them while they recover, and get on their feet.

Increasing funding could help, but it would not solve homelessness as a whole.

there is many homeless people who are not drug addicts or people who are violent it is people who are genuinely trying. People can not do good if they don't even have a fighting chance.

probably other challenges, mostly financial in that people in charge won't have the homeless best interests at heart

I don't think it'll matter just get rid of drugs and alcohol and most the homeless population would not exist

I think that it will help, and regardless it needs to happen. There is not enough resources for the homeless and that needs to change.

I think there should be reform with homeless shelters. There are shelters available in my current area and many homeless do not want to use them due to conditions of the facility.

I'd rather homeless people had a safe place to live while they sorted their lives out than on the streets of the city.

It will lead to other challenges because most homeless shelters are a place for homeless people to do drugs and take advantage of the resources.

It doesn't matter, if your homeless you've chosen to be by making pour life choices. You obviously are too lazy or dumb to act correctly and have no value to society

More homeless shelters might be a good idea at the time, but after a while they will leech off them for the health benefits.

Increase funding for shelters. Create a sense of wellbeing for them and create a sanctuary type living space where they can heal, find purpose and transition back into the world.

It will help and probably lead to challenges we cannot think of at the moment

I think it can help but we need more than just shelter programs

I think increasing the funding for shelters will help equip them with better utilities for the homeless, but there is the fear that they may start requiring more things from the homeless and/or include a fee.

Funding should be at a baseline of what they need and more for employee/volunteer incentives. It won't have an affect, if we decrease foreign spending.

it would help most people because lots of people don't have lots of money and cant afford a shelter.

I believe it will cause other problems such as the cities or towns having more tax or an increase in overdose from drugs due to the mass amount of homeless that take or use drugs.

Shelters shouldn't be the solution in the first place, just make affordable housing

I think it's will help people that have no where to go.

I think it will help the community by giving more housing to all people.

yes because many people are really trying to get a home

it will help if you can get it to bigger and better for the Homeless

We 100% need increased funding for homeless shelters as well as affordable housing in order to prevent homelessness in the first place

This helps to ensure that individuals are able to maintain their health and well-being, and reduces the risk of illness and injury.

I think it will truly help more homless people find a place to stay and live and to live a better life.

I think homeless people should have a nicer place of their own.

Yes it could help if people really want to work for it and try.

I think increasing the funding for shelters will help, especially in bigger cities and places with higher taxes that a lot of people struggle in.

Increasing funding for shelters will allow people to have somewhere to sleep and be safe during harsh weather

I think it could help, there are many house or apartments in which homeless people can go live in

No because of the amount of homeless people in the population that will just give them the satisfaction to homeless if you find them just as much as school they wont wanna be better at least most of them. The main reason people push to be rich is because they don't wanna go through the pain of being homeless because no one helps you but if you homeless and get help or increased budgeting the number of homeless people will up because they know they will have help.

More challenges, feeding them, keeping them safe and making sure drugs arent present.

They are already well funded. Lower housing costs and decrease the homeless

It will truly help, in my opinion. The rate of homelessness has drastically increased in the past years, and i would like to be able to walk without encountering a poor doomed soul destined to starvation.

just because you make a homeless shelter doesn't mean that they will use them

Truthfully, it may lead to other challenges, but not ones that cannot be fixed with experience and proper regulation. The only way to create a successful system is to start it and then make necessary changes.