Why should we care about homeless ex servicemen?
Discussion
Hear me out here.....
Hearing all these stories about tower blocks I regularly see comments that people can be housed but we can do nothing about ex servicemen living on the streets. These seems to have gone up a notch because Camden are emergency funding lots of people yet no doubt there are lots of homeless people in Camden and elsewhere who are not house.
My questions are
1 - are there a higher proportion of servicemen amongst the general homeless population?
2 - if so do they deserve better treatment then the normal homeless?
If these servicemen are homeless as a direct result of something to do with their job and it is a known problem then shouldn't the armed forces take responsibility as part of their budget?
Otherwise, is it just a case of people emotion above fact and reality - which in this case is that the council have a duty to ensure the safety of their tenants.
Hearing all these stories about tower blocks I regularly see comments that people can be housed but we can do nothing about ex servicemen living on the streets. These seems to have gone up a notch because Camden are emergency funding lots of people yet no doubt there are lots of homeless people in Camden and elsewhere who are not house.
My questions are
1 - are there a higher proportion of servicemen amongst the general homeless population?
2 - if so do they deserve better treatment then the normal homeless?
If these servicemen are homeless as a direct result of something to do with their job and it is a known problem then shouldn't the armed forces take responsibility as part of their budget?
Otherwise, is it just a case of people emotion above fact and reality - which in this case is that the council have a duty to ensure the safety of their tenants.
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