Noticable reduction in homeless and tents in DC, what about libaries and metro?

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the homeless people i encounter are elderly and often struggling mentally as well.

They need a safe place to live longterm and healthcare. So many with abscesses on their feet and missing teeth from lack of health and dental care.

Trump doesn’t care about them, Trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He just wants to push them further away from the White House and couldn’t care less if they died. He’d probably be happy if they did.

Have they lived their lives in a way that leads to a long, healthy life?

Such an astonishingly dumb, privileged, moronic question. Doesn't even deserve a response.

Not at all. Drug use is a choice before it becomes an addiction. Many homeless choose that lifestyle even when offered rehab, housing, and food.

Do they? How many? And i also wonder what you'd have us do with those people. Should we just exterminate them so you'd be happy????

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Trump signed an executive order four weeks ago laying out exactly how they plan to address the homeless, mentally ill and addiciton crisis. More involuntary civil commitment, more federal funding, etc. Deinstitutionalization was the mistake that got us here. You should read it:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

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Anonymous wrote:Please have your date nights in your burb. We don't want you here.

Dumb

Nope! Anyone celebrating that Trump simply pushed these folks to some burb is dumb and heartless. He didn't solve the problem. He simply made it more difficult for the homeless AND whoever is having to deal with the problem now. And for what, so she can have a date night? GTFOH. I dont want them in my city.

“my city”, meanwhile you are probably a transplant from the Midwest.

Where are you from? Where do you live now?

I’m from DC. I left DC for college, and three years afterwards, but then moved back. So not only was I born here, but I have lived here for the majority of my life.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the homeless people i encounter are elderly and often struggling mentally as well.

They need a safe place to live longterm and healthcare. So many with abscesses on their feet and missing teeth from lack of health and dental care.

Trump doesn’t care about them, Trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He just wants to push them further away from the White House and couldn’t care less if they died. He’d probably be happy if they did.

Have they lived their lives in a way that leads to a long, healthy life?

Such an astonishingly dumb, privileged, moronic question. Doesn't even deserve a response.

Not at all. Drug use is a choice before it becomes an addiction. Many homeless choose that lifestyle even when offered rehab, housing, and food.

Do they? How many? And i also wonder what you'd have us do with those people. Should we just exterminate them so you'd be happy????

You are making assumptions and statements based on emotions and not facts. Your last question does not deserve a response.

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Anonymous wrote:Please have your date nights in your burb. We don't want you here.

Dumb

Nope! Anyone celebrating that Trump simply pushed these folks to some burb is dumb and heartless. He didn't solve the problem. He simply made it more difficult for the homeless AND whoever is having to deal with the problem now. And for what, so she can have a date night? GTFOH. I dont want them in my city.

“my city”, meanwhile you are probably a transplant from the Midwest.

Where are you from? Where do you live now?

I’m from DC. I left DC for college, and three years afterwards, but then moved back. So not only was I born here, but I have lived here for the majority of my life.

uh hmmm...I so totally believe that.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the homeless people i encounter are elderly and often struggling mentally as well.

They need a safe place to live longterm and healthcare. So many with abscesses on their feet and missing teeth from lack of health and dental care.

Trump doesn’t care about them, Trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He just wants to push them further away from the White House and couldn’t care less if they died. He’d probably be happy if they did.

Have they lived their lives in a way that leads to a long, healthy life?

Such an astonishingly dumb, privileged, moronic question. Doesn't even deserve a response.

Not at all. Drug use is a choice before it becomes an addiction. Many homeless choose that lifestyle even when offered rehab, housing, and food.

Do they? How many? And i also wonder what you'd have us do with those people. Should we just exterminate them so you'd be happy????

You are making assumptions and statements based on emotions and not facts. Your last question does not deserve a response.

How convenient. I find that most of the time it's a man making this comment to discredit a woman. What is your plan, tough guy?

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the homeless people i encounter are elderly and often struggling mentally as well.

They need a safe place to live longterm and healthcare. So many with abscesses on their feet and missing teeth from lack of health and dental care.

Trump doesn’t care about them, Trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He just wants to push them further away from the White House and couldn’t care less if they died. He’d probably be happy if they did.

Have they lived their lives in a way that leads to a long, healthy life?

Such an astonishingly dumb, privileged, moronic question. Doesn't even deserve a response.

Not at all. Drug use is a choice before it becomes an addiction. Many homeless choose that lifestyle even when offered rehab, housing, and food.

I hate to use the word "privileged" but this post personfies the word. You have no idea what it's like to not grow up in a world where drugs and crime are a part of life. It takes a lot to make someone who they are -- it took a lot ot make you so successful and safe (and smug). You were not born that way -- you were raised that way. So were a lot of people who grow up to be drug addicts. And don't forget people who are mentally ill through no fault of their own. You are a despicable person, PP. Show me one religion -- ONE -- that endorses cruelty and judgment on those less fortunate or suffering. You suck.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump signed an executive order four weeks ago laying out exactly how they plan to address the homeless, mentally ill and addiciton crisis. More involuntary civil commitment, more federal funding, etc. Deinstitutionalization was the mistake that got us here. You should read it:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

It was Ronald Reagon who "deinstitutionalized" the mentally ill while he also slashed funding for social services.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump signed an executive order four weeks ago laying out exactly how they plan to address the homeless, mentally ill and addiciton crisis. More involuntary civil commitment, more federal funding, etc. Deinstitutionalization was the mistake that got us here. You should read it:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

It was Ronald Reagon who "deinstitutionalized" the mentally ill while he also slashed funding for social services.

Reagan.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in NW DC, the homeless folks haven't gone anywhere, after clearing the nearby encampments there is a distinct uptick in the number of people I see now laying out on the medians, park benches, bus stops and in front of the libraries. It's not like any meaningful change was made, and once this all blows over I guarantee you the encampments will return.

The encampments were actually an improvement over homeless in the parks and sleeping on the street. Now they are gone...

if only there was a place they could shelter or be detained if they commit crimes?

There would need to be a whole lot of very inexpensive housing built in DC for the sheltering to happen. For mentally ill and addicts, the official shelters don't work well.

I'm old enough to remember that old hotels would be turned into cheap rooms for rent for extremely low earning people: you would rent a bed and room and that was it. All of those have been torn down, but need to make a comeback if you want people off the streets.

You want the likes of Tenderloin district in San Francisco? It's what they have, cheap rundown hotels full of drugs, prostitution and worse. People who aren't homeless technically still loitering outside bent over and passed out in their own feces, drug deals in the open, people shooting up in the open on the sidewalks in front of the busy farmer's market my elderly relatives frequent. The saddest thing driving around there is seeing kids in strollers rolled by their degenerate parents who are high on drugs.

Honestly, people hate to say this because it's not PC, but nobody wants degeneracy around them. Nobody wants housing for addicts and people who cannot take care of their own bodies, not to mention their apartments near them. It's like kicking the can down the road, not solving the problem. The truth is that half of these people need to be institutionalized as they don't just need a roof over their heads or a meal, they need caretakers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the homeless people i encounter are elderly and often struggling mentally as well.

They need a safe place to live longterm and healthcare. So many with abscesses on their feet and missing teeth from lack of health and dental care.

Trump doesn’t care about them, Trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He just wants to push them further away from the White House and couldn’t care less if they died. He’d probably be happy if they did.

Have they lived their lives in a way that leads to a long, healthy life?

Such an astonishingly dumb, privileged, moronic question. Doesn't even deserve a response.

Not at all. Drug use is a choice before it becomes an addiction. Many homeless choose that lifestyle even when offered rehab, housing, and food.

I hate to use the word "privileged" but this post personfies the word. You have no idea what it's like to not grow up in a world where drugs and crime are a part of life. It takes a lot to make someone who they are -- it took a lot ot make you so successful and safe (and smug). You were not born that way -- you were raised that way. So were a lot of people who grow up to be drug addicts. And don't forget people who are mentally ill through no fault of their own. You are a despicable person, PP. Show me one religion -- ONE -- that endorses cruelty and judgment on those less fortunate or suffering. You suck.

What you're saying is untrue about me. You're making up a description of me based on nothing meaningful or true. I certainly do not ebdorse cruelty and judgment on those less fortunate. I've spent my life working with children and teens with special needs and helping their families find needed supports. I have several family members with significant addiction-related difficulties (including legal ramifications) and mental health issues. Nonetheless, it's a fact that many people living on the streets have made choices that keep them there. They began using alcohol and/or drugs and then refuse meds, assistance, and shelters. That doesn't mean we give up on them. It also doesn't mean we should just leave them there year after year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in NW DC, the homeless folks haven't gone anywhere, after clearing the nearby encampments there is a distinct uptick in the number of people I see now laying out on the medians, park benches, bus stops and in front of the libraries. It's not like any meaningful change was made, and once this all blows over I guarantee you the encampments will return.

The encampments were actually an improvement over homeless in the parks and sleeping on the street. Now they are gone...

if only there was a place they could shelter or be detained if they commit crimes?

There would need to be a whole lot of very inexpensive housing built in DC for the sheltering to happen. For mentally ill and addicts, the official shelters don't work well.

I'm old enough to remember that old hotels would be turned into cheap rooms for rent for extremely low earning people: you would rent a bed and room and that was it. All of those have been torn down, but need to make a comeback if you want people off the streets.

You want the likes of Tenderloin district in San Francisco? It's what they have, cheap rundown hotels full of drugs, prostitution and worse. People who aren't homeless technically still loitering outside bent over and passed out in their own feces, drug deals in the open, people shooting up in the open on the sidewalks in front of the busy farmer's market my elderly relatives frequent. The saddest thing driving around there is seeing kids in strollers rolled by their degenerate parents who are high on drugs.

Honestly, people hate to say this because it's not PC, but nobody wants degeneracy around them. Nobody wants housing for addicts and people who cannot take care of their own bodies, not to mention their apartments near them. It's like kicking the can down the road, not solving the problem. The truth is that half of these people need to be institutionalized as they don't just need a roof over their heads or a meal, they need caretakers.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the homeless people i encounter are elderly and often struggling mentally as well.

They need a safe place to live longterm and healthcare. So many with abscesses on their feet and missing teeth from lack of health and dental care.

Trump doesn’t care about them, Trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He just wants to push them further away from the White House and couldn’t care less if they died. He’d probably be happy if they did.

Have they lived their lives in a way that leads to a long, healthy life?

Such an astonishingly dumb, privileged, moronic question. Doesn't even deserve a response.

Not at all. Drug use is a choice before it becomes an addiction. Many homeless choose that lifestyle even when offered rehab, housing, and food.

I hate to use the word "privileged" but this post personfies the word. You have no idea what it's like to not grow up in a world where drugs and crime are a part of life. It takes a lot to make someone who they are -- it took a lot ot make you so successful and safe (and smug). You were not born that way -- you were raised that way. So were a lot of people who grow up to be drug addicts. And don't forget people who are mentally ill through no fault of their own. You are a despicable person, PP. Show me one religion -- ONE -- that endorses cruelty and judgment on those less fortunate or suffering. You suck.

And? The solution is to let them fester on the streets and camp out in rat infested unsanitary under-highway compounds? City streets do not have infrastructure to support people living outside, no toilets, not enough garbage disposal and even then many of these people are incapable to taking care of throwing out their own trash. Some cannot even take care of their own bodies. These are people who gave up and are slowly dying by extended suicide. Are you honest enough with yourself to recognize this? they gave up on life, but because they don't have safety net of a family to stay with or an institution or aren't in the extreme state to actually kill themselves they are doing this slowly festering on the streets one day at a time. Very few are trying to get up on their feet and usually seek help or stay in rehabs and deal with draconian shelter rules to get ahead.

We do need better shelter system that provides non-prison like rules and allows couple to stay together, allows some pets, allows people to come and go (like in any other form of housing) at any time, which allows homeless to take on some shift work. We need shelters with dignity for people who want to recover. But those who don't or too far gone (dude to severe mental illness or addiction or both)? What are you going to do about this, witness their mass drawn out suicide outside of your home in plain view?

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Anonymous wrote:Drove to DC for a work meeting with a customer, and the reduction in homeless people and tents was noticeable.

It was a positive change, as usual. DC looks depressing with all the homeless people and encampments.

Does anyone know if they are still congregating in other areas like the libraries and metros? If they aren't, I may revisit date nights, etc, taking the metro and walking around at night.

Liar. MAGA employee posting this crap.

Where are they supposed to go? Libraries are open to the public. Same with metro. Please do revisit date nights -- we don't want your kind in dc.

Your administration greatly increased the problem with open borders straining social services past the breaking point. We never want "your kind" in power ever again!

Now it's blatantly obvious you're a MAGA troll posting from anywhere but DC. The homeless population is DC has nothing to do with immigration. Immigrants do not put a strain on social services. Poor white folks in red states do that.

You are so fos.
I've lived (unfortunately) in the DC area or DC my entire life.

Bulllll shitttttt......no one who lives here thinks that homeless are immigrants. We know better.

There are definitely foreign homeless in DC.

Sure, a small handful. The rest are not foreign. We all know this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the homeless people i encounter are elderly and often struggling mentally as well.

They need a safe place to live longterm and healthcare. So many with abscesses on their feet and missing teeth from lack of health and dental care.

Trump doesn’t care about them, Trump doesn’t care about anyone but himself. He just wants to push them further away from the White House and couldn’t care less if they died. He’d probably be happy if they did.

Have they lived their lives in a way that leads to a long, healthy life?

Such an astonishingly dumb, privileged, moronic question. Doesn't even deserve a response.

Not at all. Drug use is a choice before it becomes an addiction. Many homeless choose that lifestyle even when offered rehab, housing, and food.

I hate to use the word "privileged" but this post personfies the word. You have no idea what it's like to not grow up in a world where drugs and crime are a part of life. It takes a lot to make someone who they are -- it took a lot ot make you so successful and safe (and smug). You were not born that way -- you were raised that way. So were a lot of people who grow up to be drug addicts. And don't forget people who are mentally ill through no fault of their own. You are a despicable person, PP. Show me one religion -- ONE -- that endorses cruelty and judgment on those less fortunate or suffering. You suck.

What you're saying is untrue about me. You're making up a description of me based on nothing meaningful or true. I certainly do not ebdorse cruelty and judgment on those less fortunate. I've spent my life working with children and teens with special needs and helping their families find needed supports. I have several family members with significant addiction-related difficulties (including legal ramifications) and mental health issues. Nonetheless, it's a fact that many people living on the streets have made choices that keep them there. They began using alcohol and/or drugs and then refuse meds, assistance, and shelters. That doesn't mean we give up on them. It also doesn't mean we should just leave them there year after year.

No one "chooses" to be a homeless person.