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How America Valorizes Homeless Freedom—and Ignores Real Need

September 2, 2026 · 1 min read

This series on homelessness is what journalists call an explainer. If you’ve been reading along week by week, by now you know much about the facts of homelessness, including both its personal and societal causes. Now we’re getting to proposed solutions—and I’ll lay groundwork with a brief survey of the long disposition in American culture Read more...

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Radmila Nikolić
Kod nas u Beogradu vidim da sloboda bez krova nad glavom brzo postane samo glad i bolest, a ne neki ideal. Članak dobro kaže da se ignoriše stvarna potreba – ljudi prvo trebaju krov, lekara i posao, pa tek onda možemo pričati o slobodi. Hvala na ovom tekstu, podseća me koliko je važno da Crkva konkretno pomogne, a ne samo priča.
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Alexander Miller
In Portland we've got the same thing on the streets downtown—folks talk about "autonomy" while they're freezing or getting sick. The article is right that we skip the basics: a roof, a doctor, and steady work have to come first. Without those, the freedom talk just sounds like an excuse.
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Katarina Đorđević
Potpuno se slažem, Radmila. Kod nas na pijaci vidim iste ljude svakog jutra – bez krova brzo izgube i zdravlje i volju za bilo čim. Crkva ovde u našoj parohiji već godinama deli tople obroke i upućuje na lekara, to je bar konkretno. Jesi li možda išla na neki od tih sastanaka gde se priča o socijalnoj pomoći?
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