Welfare system and homeless people

The Street Magazine present to day the story of Anthony the homeless old man that died in the hospital. He prefered to live outdoor despite he had money to choose otherwise. How can we understand that some people choose this kind of life? What does this tell us about our welfare system? For most people persons like Anthony provoke our idea about the civil society and how to behave when you are living in a city. We are likely to think that the people living like this is either alcoholic or mentally ill. Many people seems to think that they are a danger to the society. Bearing diseases, smelling terrible, and is a hunt to our welfare system. But is this true? In the next number of The Street Magazine we will focus more on the situation for the homeless in the park and you can read what the salvation army know about these people, and what our health and social service think they can offer these people. We also offer the readers to bring in their thoughts about this.
The Editor, Street Magazine
(I suggest that we leave this open and that a task for students if they would like to focus on the homeless situation could be to interview the salvation army in their own city and the social autorities and to compare what is done for this group of people. How many are they, what do we know about them? How could John the gardener use the money to the best for these people?)