There's a forum online with a variety of ongoing discussions about issues concerning homelessness:
http://www.homelessforums.org/
After looking at only a couple of discussions, I very quickly realized that in many ways, homelessness is a "hot topic." In this particular forum, there's a mixture of homeless people, formerly homeless people, and people who have never been homeless at all. In one particular discussion, a rich man from Florida was moaning about his meaningless, sad life, and was contemplating becoming homeless because he thought that they seemed happier, more fulfilled, and enjoyed the things in life he wanted to enjoy, out from under the oppression of the work force and money. At first there was no reply but multiple views, until eventually a couple of girls began to explain to him that he needed to look into the reality of being homeless, not just his vision of being homeless. A couple of homeless people that I had noticed commented on a lot of discussions explained to him that they would love to have money in the bank and the security of a job, a home, and healthcare. Eventually the discussion calmed down and other people started giving suggestions for those with money.
The discussions I looked at all got extremely heated in just a few posts, and this seemed to be a trend in the discussions. Homelessness is clearly an important topic to a large variety of people, which indicates that the questions I ask on the forum will bring me plenty of interesting replies from people of different economic classes. Just don't rock the boat!
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