Outside the Box: It’s bad behaviour to blame the homeless

What’s your biggest fear? Being eaten feet first by sharks? Spiders nesting in your ear? Being thrown off a roof by frothing maniacs?

Mine is street homelessness. Not having a door, some walls, and a ceiling is my biggest fear. I cannot think of anything worse.

In fact for those of us who do have doors, walls, and ceilings, street homelessness is so unthinkable — physically, psychologically, materially, practically, spiritually — that instead of having a collective freak-out that it exists for even one single individual in an economy as affluent as ours, what do we do? We blame the homeless for their homelessness.