SOLUTIONS?

Now one question we face as a society – a broad question of justice and social policy –
is whether we are willing to tolerate an economic system in which large numbers of
people are homeless. Since the answer is evidently, “Yes,” the question that remains is
whether we are willing to allow those who are in this predicament to act as free agents,
looking after their own needs, in public places – the only space available to them. It is a
deeply frightening fact about the modern United States that those who have homes and
jobs are willing to answer “Yes” to the first question and “No” to the second (Waldron,
1991:304).