Conversations about homelessness and empty homes are incomplete without acknowledgement of the fact that being housed is not a prefered or even a tolerable situation for everyone.
Be it mental illness, or neurotype, or character, some people can not find what they need out of life in a permanent home and some would simply be happier if they could have quality of life without it.
And if that is you, what you’ll need is access to food when you are hungry, warmth when you are cold, public toilets and showers, health care, etc. And, ya know, not getting criminalized for sleeping wherever you plan to sleep that night.
Yes,we need to take empty homes and give them to homeless people who want to be housed, but being housed also shouldn’t be obligatory and shouldn’t be necessary to get access to quality of life.
