Should we provide more shelters for the homeless?

Because economic instability leads to many people losing their jobs, lots of people become homeless, and that does not means they become useless. Some of them just need a chance; therefore, providing more and better shelters are  important to homeless people. If they get a place to stay at night to protect them from bad weather, they will not do something illegal, and that is the different way to support a safe society. However, it will cost a lot of money for government, and it will also have risk because we can not make sure these homeless people will become better and repay society.

The most important reason for providing more shelters is because homeless people is a big group, we can not let them be without organization, we can not care them less as well. If we ignore them for a long time, they may shape a huge antisocial group that bring more dangers to our society. Moreover, if we do not care them, some bad guys will use them, and they will become cat’s paw. For instance, in my country, homeless always used by some merciless organizations, they entice some healthy homeless people to their organization and promise to give them a place to stay, in fact is use drug to dizzy them, then take some organs out of their bodies to sell out to earn money. When they wake up, they become to the disabled people, and some of them even unfortunate dead.

Moreover, providing more shelters can make the homeless more productive, and since so many homeless sleep on the street, they make the cities appear unpleasant. That makes normal residents feel uncomfortable with homeless people, so that brings some contradictions between homelessness with residents. If we provide more shelters to them, they will become more productive people who have place to stay at overnight. That can not only enhance homeless people’s self-sufficiency, but also solve some residents’ misconceptions; in other words, if homeless people get enough sleep at night, they will have more energy to work during the daytime. And, besides, if residents find homeless working very hard instead of begging on the street, they may change their mind, and they will not think that homeless people just lazy or incapable, and they will think the homeless are more productive guys than their impression. 

Furthermore, not all of homelessness choose to go to shelters now, because they do not trust people, also they do not think governments can help them, even can bring them back to the normal lives, therefore they abandon themselves to vice. If we provide them more shelters, they will be back to their live faster. Because some of them at least will try to go there, when they feel comfortable at shelters, they will tell their friends. Thus, more homeless would try to stay at shelters. Then, they can get more helps, in other words, they will get more chances be back to their lives. For example, some homeless teenagers got help from job advisories at Urban Peak (a homeless teenagers’ shelter in Denver), and some of them work at Walmart or Safeway now, also most of them are cured their manic and learnt how to control their emotions as well.

However, that will be a enormous investment for government, especially in times of economic uncertainty, so they may do not willing to give more money to some unsuccessful people. Even if homeless people will do some contribution to society, yet it will cost a long time to verify, government have no time to wait, and the situation do not allowed them to wait. To ensure most people’s benefit, the government will not take the risk, so they need to maintain the status quo then change it better, no one wants more people become homeless. Even though governments have extra funds, and they will use them to improve residents’ living standards, because people pay taxes for themselves ultimately, government do not want to lose public support as well.

As said above, providing more shelters for the homeless creates some risk, but the government should probably put funds to more useful way, while others also argue that residents should not pay taxes for people who can not bring contribute. Despite all that, I insist we need to provide more shelters to homeless, because we are living in this equal society, and we get everything from that. As a result, we owe this society something, so we have responsibility to make it better. Helping homeless people is the one of way to help our society, since providing more shelters not only can  reduce mortality and crime rate, the most important is it also can bring hopes to some people no direction, if everyone has a thankful heart, our society will become stronger.