This week I was in Texas for baseball, so I decided to look at what kinds of shelters where around my area.  To my surprise there were a lot of places that homeless people could get help but if you looked at the homeless count here you’d realize that 32% of homelessness here is chronic.  2018 research found out that the homeless population was rising in Austin, Texas.  According to kxan.com, the city is spending more than 33 million dollars to combat homelessness.  With 2,147 people experiencing homelessness, they say 1,014 people are living on the streets unsheltered and that’s just the numbers that have been documented.  I’m sure there are plenty others that are not accounted for.  It’s crazy to see just how severe homelessness is everywhere, not just in our cities in California.  One of the things that struck me was kxan talking about the federal government, saying that the federal government should be funding programs that help the homeless.  They have the money and it would better our economy if we did help.  It sucks to see so many homeless, and organizations such as Redlands Family Services that I intern for lose funding.  Especially when the government has money that could go towards getting people off the street and getting them the help they need.  Whether that be mental, physical, a job, clothes, or food; we need to be funding and creating programs, organizations, and jobs that can combine all the needs for homeless and the less fortunate together.  Creating a way for the homeless and less fortunate to help themselves all in one place would do the economy a great service, because it would give them a job to make money to support and buy themselves necessities, get the mental and/or physical help they might need, plus clothe and feed them all at the same place.  They would be able to relate and help each other out, with the help of supervisors and other medical care physicians that would make sure everything goes smoothly.  Stepping in whenever there’s a real problem or situations that need to be addressed.  We just have to make it a reality because its implications would be tremendous  for the economy as a whole.