While by no means a majority, there are people who live around me that only have running water and electricity when they go to a public space that has those things. Rare, not everyone or even a lot of anyone I meet. I see their houses up in the hills, they look abandoned, but people are coming and going... Something about a house with people living in it and no front door makes me feel sick inside.
Of course, but you're just talking about a period of their lives. How many of them never had a couple of months in their life where they had access to those?
It's not like these things take years to learn. Just a few weeks is all you need (perhaps a couple months for those with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities). And the percentage of people with just poverty who never have had access to water/electricity for that period of time in their 30s is exceedingly small. If they truly have never had that, then it's almost certain there's something more wrong with them than simple poverty.
And even then, for things like laundry. That doesn't prevent you from going to a laundromat. These are things that you can learn with a cheap old phone and public wifi.
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u/Hollerhood-Tourguide 3d ago
While by no means a majority, there are people who live around me that only have running water and electricity when they go to a public space that has those things. Rare, not everyone or even a lot of anyone I meet. I see their houses up in the hills, they look abandoned, but people are coming and going... Something about a house with people living in it and no front door makes me feel sick inside.