NationStates Jolt Archive

The Homeless Shelter Act
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights Strength: Significant Proposed by: Servakia
Description: I want to propose a resolution that would give shelter to the homeless and get them off of streets, as well as put food in their mouths. I think that the homeless need a place to be sheltered from the harsh enviroment they endure. I have seen many homeless sleeping in the rain on enches with only newspapers to cover them, and i want that stopped. I would propose to make homeless shelters mandatory in all nations. This would have animmeadiate effect on living conditions in cities, because people are more at ease and happier when they dont see homeless people having to dig throught their trash just to stay alive.

A very worthy issue, but not specific enough - this would put a disproportionate burden on developing nations (where heavy urban drift has produced homeless populations numbering many millions), whereas the large-income-gap nations who should be able to provide for their homeless could just set up two low-quality homeless shelters (capacity: four) and, having fulfilled their requirement to set up homeless shelters, go about their business. Things like vagrancy laws and police harassment should be addressed as well in any UN resolution.

This is not the role of our government. We have private chairities which take of the homeless/lazy. Until there is ice-skating on the river styx, we will oppose this proposal.

We deport those worthless bums via cannon into the stratosphere. Either that, or we use them as fuel for the furnaces that keep our boardrooms nice and warm.

let's try it out and see how the delegates feel?

it's not really possible to make transients be sedintary in the sense that you mean. When people want to change their situations, they do. Wanting to "make it better for them" speaks of your own feelings regarding them which is projection. Just because YOU don't think it's right, doesn't mean THEY don't think it's right. I think it's a relatively naieve idea which is why it has ALWAYS failed through history.

I'm all for helping the homeless, but that is absurd, not to mention vague. And it would never pass for those two reasons, not to mention the fact that no one would vote for mandatory shelters, instead letting sovereignty do its job. Perhaps you should wrote a regular issue instead?

And if they can get living quarters for free, what encouragement do they have to change their situation? In fact, economies would probably (I say probably because the very idea of taking an economy course, much less majoring in it like my dad puts me to sleep so I have little economic understanding) be crippled because if people could get adaquet living quarters at the expense of the gov't, many people would probably quit their jobs and settle for homeless shelters rather than pay rent to some evil landlord. So, it's a very impractical proposal, and hardly UN material anyways.

TRUE DAT!

*ahem*

I mean, HEAR HEAR!