DJ Calvert told BBC News NI: “I’ve been let down - and I’m not the only one.”

It was proof that Northern Ireland’s health and social care system had “crashed”, said the 49-year-old.

  • Marxism-Fennekinism
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    1111 months ago

    You can survive easy out here if you can stay sober enough to make a few phone calls and show up to appointments. Most of the homeless crisis is really just a drug crisis.

    I trust that in order to make such such a generalizing and dismissive statement you have some form of qualification or primary experience?

    • THCDenton
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      011 months ago

      Yes. I get free healthcare, and I qualify for free food and low income housing. Many of my friends have been homeless and they have had an easy time finding a shelter.

        • @MycoBro@lemmy.world
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          -111 months ago

          You sure were getting geared up to put him in his place though, huh? I’m going to just start telling people like you “thank you for your service “