living on the street, instead a foreword
Poor people especially homeless do not own anything than they are
wearing and they have no chance to produce something lasting, instead
the most things goes loosing somewhere on the small and big flights.
For the expellee stretch of road between daily warming house and
emergencyshelter, christmasparty and clothing run and social welfare
office, ambulant medical emergency-supply and soup-kitchen. You need
phsycical training a great footwear, profound time-table-knowledge and
first of all: permanent mobility. Everybody are wellcome, but not much
are offered: Insipid soups,
some socks and sometimes a little converstation, an advice or intertainment. When the cold is very bad, bunkers and underground station are being opened but it does not invite to staying there for a long time. Poor people do not have other choices. People that do not show up in time are down on their luck. Then they have to stay outside and have to fight for suvivar. Maybe they get begging some euros or they take a train until the morning to get some sleep for 2-3 hours.
A life outside means living with the permant danger of being deprivated, assaulted or set on fire. The lucky ones can try again the next day. Exhausted like this and soon being completely burned out, homeless people hardly have any other options than involuntarily to prove the prejudice that it is their own fault in the end, you cannot help them and they deserve it. And this is how the homeless people get the most obvious idea: to move into empty houses or other places where they want to stay. They can be sure to be driven away sooner or later because the misery should only be visible for a very short time. The so-calles winter-help for homeless people is another word for freezing to death on the money-saving organized installment plan. If not this winter, then the next one, which is definatly going to come.
Generally speaking: the living situation of homeless people is marked by the far-reading exclusion of social participation and a break-down of individual activities. The cipation and a break-down of individually percieved lack of options and usually lacking perspectieves. Cretive survinging strategies go together with permanent challenges, the living situation supports a dependence on supply-and helpoffers and boards as well as (because of missing financial resources) a latent tendency to small criminal acts (theft, theft of food, joy-rides). Social relations are lost or usually limited to functional contacts to people in the same situation and professional helpers.
Sexual relations or partnerships are only possible under very limited
conditions or take place as prostutition. Competences are lost and qualifications are depreciated. Problems with drugs (often as a strategy of handling and coming to terms with their living situation) arise or develop, physical burdens (cold, weather, unsufficiant foodsupply, drugs) lead to serious, partly lasting, health damages. The lasting whereabouts in structurs like these often lead to mental abnormities, the loss of motivation and meaning with life, resignation, lethargy or individual protest (the I-don´t-careeffect”). Getting out of this situation or changing (improving) it is getting harder the longer it lasts.
stefan schneider, 1994
some socks and sometimes a little converstation, an advice or intertainment. When the cold is very bad, bunkers and underground station are being opened but it does not invite to staying there for a long time. Poor people do not have other choices. People that do not show up in time are down on their luck. Then they have to stay outside and have to fight for suvivar. Maybe they get begging some euros or they take a train until the morning to get some sleep for 2-3 hours.
A life outside means living with the permant danger of being deprivated, assaulted or set on fire. The lucky ones can try again the next day. Exhausted like this and soon being completely burned out, homeless people hardly have any other options than involuntarily to prove the prejudice that it is their own fault in the end, you cannot help them and they deserve it. And this is how the homeless people get the most obvious idea: to move into empty houses or other places where they want to stay. They can be sure to be driven away sooner or later because the misery should only be visible for a very short time. The so-calles winter-help for homeless people is another word for freezing to death on the money-saving organized installment plan. If not this winter, then the next one, which is definatly going to come.
Generally speaking: the living situation of homeless people is marked by the far-reading exclusion of social participation and a break-down of individual activities. The cipation and a break-down of individually percieved lack of options and usually lacking perspectieves. Cretive survinging strategies go together with permanent challenges, the living situation supports a dependence on supply-and helpoffers and boards as well as (because of missing financial resources) a latent tendency to small criminal acts (theft, theft of food, joy-rides). Social relations are lost or usually limited to functional contacts to people in the same situation and professional helpers.
Sexual relations or partnerships are only possible under very limited
conditions or take place as prostutition. Competences are lost and qualifications are depreciated. Problems with drugs (often as a strategy of handling and coming to terms with their living situation) arise or develop, physical burdens (cold, weather, unsufficiant foodsupply, drugs) lead to serious, partly lasting, health damages. The lasting whereabouts in structurs like these often lead to mental abnormities, the loss of motivation and meaning with life, resignation, lethargy or individual protest (the I-don´t-careeffect”). Getting out of this situation or changing (improving) it is getting harder the longer it lasts.
stefan schneider, 1994
