The amount of panhandlers has increased exponentially since covid and was on the rise prior to covid.
I think this has as much to do with supply as demand. People in Iowa are nice and it’s easy money if you are willing to beg.
What’s happening to Des Moines?
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I think this has as much to do with supply as demand. People in Iowa are nice and it’s easy money if you are willing to beg.
Never been to Boise, but lived in Little Rock for a year. Your comment makes me wonder if you have been there. LR has a long way to go to be in the same discussion as DSM
Plenty of panhandlers in the Phoenix metro. The freeway exits sometimes get 2-3 on each side of the road at the light.
And generally more social services available. Those cities\states, in effect, end up picking up some of the load for other cities\states that aren't doing as good of a job.
Try Denver out if you want a fairly high number of homeless considering the winter months.
Sounds to me like it’s a nationwide problem.
So what’s the cause, and what’s the solution? A lot of complaining on here, but no solutions.
So what’s the cause, and what’s the solution? A lot of complaining on here, but no solutions.
This. I've lived in the DSM and surrounding metro and worked downtown for 15 years and have never seen a homeless person doing anything like that. There is the occasional homeless person, but if anyone thinks it's bad in DSM they need to travel more. Like a LOT more.
A few years ago my cousin her husband and my wife were driving home to their place out in the country in SE Iowa only to roll up on a lady taking dump in the ditch. We drove past slow cause it’s a rock road laughing and she flipped us off lol!!
There are a variety of reason's people are homeless but I think addiction and mental illness are the two largest contributors.
You didn't honk? That would have really have scared the #### out of her.
The two things America will never acknowledge or address. Everything is perfect here and to say otherwise is anti capitalist.
Based upon this article and story from December 2020, it doesn’t appear as though homelessness in DSM is increasing - https://www.kcci.com/article/organi...ss-in-need-of-shelter-is-down-in-dsm/35100386
Everything I have read says there are two classes of homeless people in the US. The first group tend to be homeless for less than 6 months. Many in this group have fallen on hard times, lost job, lost their home or whatever. They tend to be living out of their car if they have one or be part of the system until they get back on their feet.
The second group are the long term homeless, many of these people have mental or drug issues and a lot prefer to live on the street, as crazy as that seems.
You can help the first group, but the second is generally beyond hope without mental or drug treatment hospitals. Which are becoming fewer and fewer unless you can pay for it.
The second group are the long term homeless, many of these people have mental or drug issues and a lot prefer to live on the street, as crazy as that seems.
You can help the first group, but the second is generally beyond hope without mental or drug treatment hospitals. Which are becoming fewer and fewer unless you can pay for it.
I think addressing mental health would go along way.
Just give them a house and they won't be homeless
Not redistribution of wealth as you hinted at above.
