Homelessness in Russia

In the recent 5 or even 10 years I noticed that the amount of people living in a street has significantly decreased. I don’t base it on any statistics, it’s just my personal observation, because when I was small passed by such people almost every day. Now it’s not like that at all.

Nevertheless, there are still homeless people, most of whom, I beleive, both have mental problems, and don’t want to change the way they live whatsoever. I think they just gave up any hope or reason to at least come back to their families.Allthough, the family should be the first in line to hellp as if even the family doen’t care a bit about them, nobody will. Except for the volunteers, of course, who seem to be more interested in helping such people than the government. I have never heard of any programm, event or anything, provided by the authirities to somehow combat the homelessness. Nothing of that exists.

The way I see it, the government has all the resources needed, but they still do nothing about the issue. Moreover, ,they can contact with the existing volunteer organizations and be much more effective as they will work with people who have experience in the field, who know what the homeless need. Just a little bit of cooperation and people will get their shelters, food, necessary documents, and maybe even a job.

By the way, a long time ago I came across a video about a homeless Londoner Natasha. Her story is quite sad, but it does have a happy ending. If you’re interested, I’ll leave the links to the original video and un update on Natasha’s life here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TLVgwoqhoc&t=72s — the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvIj4IHvx4&t=0s — the update