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1. What is your personal attitude about homeless people? Why so?

I am interested in how did they ended up homeless, what was the reason. I would like to help them but i can’t if they don’t help themselves, beacause many of homeless people also drink alot and then there’s no use of giving them money.
Theyre own fault, because they are lazy or they dont want to do any work. This city have all opportunities to help homeless, but if homeless dont want help...
I sometimes feel pity to them or i give them a money, to have some food.
I keep distance, cause they tend to look revulsive, but I don’t despise them, unless they give me a reason.
I feel sad for them. Because they have no home to live and so on.
My feelings are mixed: blame and pity, and only one student said that he has a very bad opinion about the homeless.
I think that most of them become homeless due to excess of alcohol and drug consume
I keep distance, cause they tend to look revulsive, but I don’t despise them, unless they give me a reason.
I am neutral . In those things but certainly I dont blame them because I dont know them or their situation.
They are normal people, but the have bad financial situation due to they sometimes tend to drink a lot alchol or they have lost a job etc.
Usually I have pitty of them and it makes me sad, but it depends, beacause some of the homeless people are just lazy, they even don`t want to work and they like the life they live.

80% of respondents are agree with this:

Yes, sometimes they have not enough courage and self-confidence to stand for themselves and for their rights
Yes, with drunken head nobody wants to help them exept police and certainly drugs.
Yes, theres not enough space for all homeless people in the shelters

barrier	description
Lack of information about availability of services	They just don`d hear about their abilities which are available; Homeless do not have access to media
Having no fixed address	There is too much confusion; It's hard to find homeless people to help them
Location of services	The services are too far away; Bad transprtation or none at all, if the place is too far than people cannot go
Entry/eligibility criteria for services (e.g. must not be ‘using’ to access service)	For some of the homeless people it`s very hard to not „use“ and because of that they don`t get for example accommodation
Opening hours	Even when homeless people can spend their night „under the roof“, in the day-time they have no place to spend their time and they have to be on the streets.
Client’s mental health problems	Usually homeless people don`t have the sickness insurance