Quote Originally Posted by TISS View Post
Isn't homelessness a serious political issue. There has always been homelessness, even in far left economies such as the USSR.

As long as man has lived in cities (starting with the sumerians) we have always had homelessness. It is a surprise that in a modern advanced economy that it exists but this isn't a new phenomenon and isn't unique to capitalist economies as some would have you believe.
All true.
Irrespective of Party Politics it really is more than a 'surprise' that it still exists on the scale that it does. It is a disgrace.
Are we really becoming more civilised? or reverting to a more polarised, selfish society?