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According to data, 50% of homeless people in America are substance abusers, and 30% of them are mentally ill. For anyone familiar with general contractors or any type of tradesmen, the data is quite the same. Could the solution to homelessness be right under our noses?
Whether you’re a carpenter, a painter, or the tile guy, learning and perfecting your craft is only half of the battle. Ask any GC you know, and they’ll tell you. The craft is important, but learning how to balance mental illness, physical pain, and its subsequent substance abuse is vital.
“Yeah, I’ve been fixing people's batchrooms for twenty years. Those first tree or four years it was tough, you know. I was young and wet behind the ears. Sometimes literally! That’s when I discovered the healing potion of oxycodone and peppermint schnapps. Now, I work 70 drug-addled hours a week as the premier batchroom guy in Essex County!” Vinny Spumeone of Essex County, NJ told Casino Boogie.
“When I was a carpenter's apprentice, I was silent. I listened, obeyed orders, and worked my hardest. But now, after having my own practice for over eight years, I’m silence-and-rage! That’s right! At any given moment your job site can go from dead silent to an obscene opera house if a measurement is a millimeter off! If you saw this behavior anywhere else you’d wish you had a tranq-gun from a zoo!” said Teddy BiPolowiski of Youngstown, Ohio.
There are over half a million homeless people in America today. If we use even the most modest of estimates, over 200,000 of them are addicted to drugs, mentally ill, or a cocktail of both. That’s 200,000 people just as capable of screaming expletives in front of your children as your local tradesmen. 200,000 more people who could be freebasing crushed-up vikes and fixing your leaky pipes.
“I had to go to city hall the other day, and this guy was shivering around outside in tattered, messy clothing. He was yelling about needing one more coat, and I honestly thought it might have been the painter I just hired. But it turned out to just be some homeless guy.” - Doris Lilyliver of Thousand Oaks, CA.
A lot of recent solutions to social problems only focus on one symptom of a greater problem and not the full picture. But with this idea, we kill two birds with one stone.
The next time you put a dollar in the tin cup…ask the bum if he can grout.
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