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How should we address homelessness?
A homeless individual lacks a permanent and safe nighttime residence. Approximately 150 million people worldwide suffer from homelessness. Although a wide variety of potential solutions exist, experts disagree about the correct response to this widespread problem.
We should help people who are homeless through social services.
Social services provide homeless people with more extensive aid, helping them to obtain housing, health care, and education in ways that individual donations can't.
We should help homeless people through improving the economy.
This position holds that homelessness is best addressed by improving the wider economy. It argues a prosperous society gives more to charity and offers the homeless more opportunities for jobs, housing and healthcare — tackling the cause rather than just the symptoms.
We shouldn't do anything to help people who are homeless.
This position argues that nothing should be done to help homeless people. Though it calls homelessness heartbreaking, it holds the problem is an unavoidable part of life, that some are homeless by choice, and that those affected must ultimately learn to help themselves.