Hungary bans homelessness

• Oizen wrote on 2011-12-04 08:39

  
  As of today, it is illegal to be homeless in the European country of Hungary, as a new law prohibiting it comes into effect. Those who are found to be in breach of this law will initially be given a warning for sleeping out on the streets. Offenders may also face a fine of US$600, which equates to £382 or €445, or a jail sentence.
  
  A significant majority of the National Assembly of Hungary voted in favour of the law in October of this year. The Fidesz, a ruling party in the country, proposed the law on the basis that homelessness was becoming too significant a problem for the capital Budapest. The city is thought to contain ten thousand homeless individuals.
  
  The unemployment rate for Hungary as a whole is approximately 10.7%. However, for the Romani people, this figure may rise to somewhere in between sixty and ninety per cent, according to International Business Times. 48% of those in the country without an occupation have not had one for at least twelve months, RTTNews reported.
  
  According to BBC News Online, the new law has attracted a substantial amount of criticism from various quarters, including charities supporting the homeless, that it could not be enforced, while there are too few positions available in hostels, they have claimed. Hungarian Maltese Charity Service deputy head Miklos Vecsei believed that the laws were put in place due to the dissatisfaction of the public and had not been based on any professional or rational examinations. Vecsei believes that the problem of homelessness should not be outlawed but resolved.
  
  István Tarlós, the Mayor of Budapest, told The Budapest Report that "those who believe that all problems would be solved if homeless people were given housing" would be "mistaken" in thinking so.
  
  Mate Kocsis, the Fidesz MP that created the law, said that the issue of homelessness is one that should be rectified by the local councils of Hungary, while indicating that various recently introduced plans for and positions in hostels existed. Charities for those affected by homelessness believe that this would nonetheless cause one to three thousand individuals to have no shelter to reside in. Those who do not approve of the law are preparing to demonstrate to the National Assembly in opposition of it.
  
  

  
  
  http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Hungary_bans_homelessness
  
  ....
  
  :fail3:
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-12-04 09:52
  Slightly embarassed to share the same geographical region.
• Mentosftw wrote on 2011-12-04 10:07
  .-. Solve social issues by banning them.
  
  Brilliant.
• Invisible wrote on 2011-12-04 10:12
  I've never been homeless or in jail, but wouldn't going to jail be an upgrade from sleeping on the streets?
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2011-12-04 11:49

  Quote from Invisible;680968:

  I've never been homeless or in jail, but wouldn't going to jail be an upgrade from sleeping on the streets?

  
  
  in the US yes. Can't say the same for other countries though.
  
  Anyways, this is terrible. There is so much stupid in this law that I don't even know where to start.
• Fabian wrote on 2011-12-04 11:54

  Quote from Invisible;680968:

  I've never been homeless or in jail, but wouldn't going to jail be an upgrade from sleeping on the streets?

  
  
  Not if you get raped by the other inmates. Or is that a good thing? xD
• Chillax wrote on 2011-12-04 12:15

  Quote from Fabian;680993:

  Not if you get raped by the other inmates. Or is that a good thing? xD

  
  
  [video=youtube;rf5SCa0NqbM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf5SCa0NqbM[/video]
  
  Though I would expect not having to beg for food would be a good thing. Not hungry in Hungary?
• Fabian wrote on 2011-12-04 12:25
  ^ Too bad they don't let you wear those in prison...
  
  :XD:
• Niuu wrote on 2011-12-04 14:14

  Quote from Mentosftw;680966:

  .-. Solve social issues by banning them.
  
  Brilliant.

  
  
  I remember someone said a joke like that a while ago, We were talking about nexon dealing with gold inflation and nexon locking everyone.
  
  And someone said as a joke. They should ban Americans to solve US's financial problem.
  
  Well here's the proff they really doing it.
• paladin wrote on 2011-12-05 03:07
  Enforcing this
  I feel sorry for hungrian police forces
• Adelynn wrote on 2011-12-05 06:47
  The thing about homeless people is they don't have their own place to go to...
• Fynl wrote on 2011-12-05 12:54

  Quote from Adelynn;681768:

  The thing about homeless people is they don't have their own place to go to...

  
  
  And probably not that much money to pay the fines...
  Even if they did, paying the fine would just force them to live on the streets longer or push them to steal or something.
  
  This is kind of a vicious cycle ._.
• Joker wrote on 2011-12-05 13:58

  Quote from Mentosftw;680966:

  .-. Solve social issues by banning them.
  
  Brilliant.

  
  Prohibition of death...
  
  

  One place has an actual policy against allowing natural death in the community—the remote Norwegian town of Longyearbyen in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. In this case, the prohibition is a practical response to the unusual environmental conditions in the region.[11]

  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_of_death
  
  :imdead::point:
• Adelynn wrote on 2011-12-07 01:54
  Wow, I didn't think it could get that stupid.
• Yoorah wrote on 2011-12-07 05:27
  Gotta love it when people make judgments while being clueless about the situation. xP