Homeless In United States Of America

"People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people with governments that have abandoned them." ~ G. D. Armstrong

"Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless." ~ Pras Michel

"Our Government is proud to support the Provincial Metis Housing Corporation and its local partners, like Yorkton Parkland Housing, and all of the important work they do in our province to help those in need. With a roof over their heads, all Canadians can prosper as we work together towards eliminating homelessness." ~ Garry Breitkreuz

The US has spent over $1.2 trillion in just the past two years on its military and proxy wars across Europe and the world.

Yet, within the US, tens of millions live in poverty while nearly 40 million are coerced into the brutal realism of homelessness.

These are the marks of a grim reality-the stupendous potential of this country, mobilized against the people it is supposed to serve and protect.

The immense wealth of the American government is diverted against those very people it claims to serve and protect, away from its own soil.

The $120 billion spent annually to wage its wars on behalf of Israel and this unbelievable $200 billion thrown at Ukraine in three years should come under the harsh light of scrutiny. These kinds of expenditures reveal a government more willing to fight battles abroad than to heal the fractures within its own borders.

Imagine, for one moment, what even a fraction of these sums could accomplish if invested here at home: With $100 billion, the United States could lead an innovative program of affordable housing construction, deeply cutting into the rate of homelessness and affording millions an opportunity for stability.

This is no fanciful dream; much more than providing a roof above the head of a citizen, dignity will be restored and the bedrock laid for a society where opportunity need not be a preserve of the lucky few.