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

[Anonymous]

^^

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

PP here. I agree completely, but they are making the choice to remain on the streets. That's not an acceptable option for the community/city in which they live.

Wrong. There is no choice. The availability of shelter beds changes daily, but yesterday there were 7 male beds and 10 female. Today there are zero available. There are approximately 700 DC people experiencing homelessness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

PP here. I agree completely, but they are making the choice to remain on the streets. That's not an acceptable option for the community/city in which they live.

Wrong. There is no choice. The availability of shelter beds changes daily, but yesterday there were 7 male beds and 10 female. Today there are zero available. There are approximately 700 DC people experiencing homelessness.

Why is this so hard to understand? There isn't enough housing.

[Anonymous]

I’m all for making sure our public spaces are clean and safe, and not places where people sleep or defacate or sit and do drugs in the open or engage in prostitution.

But … I’m unclear on how the GOP thinks that telling people they are not allowed to be homeless will work. Is there plan to just arrest their way out of this so they all end up in jail?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

PP here. I agree completely, but they are making the choice to remain on the streets. That's not an acceptable option for the community/city in which they live.

Wrong. There is no choice. The availability of shelter beds changes daily, but yesterday there were 7 male beds and 10 female. Today there are zero available. There are approximately 700 DC people experiencing homelessness.

Why is this so hard to understand? There isn't enough housing.

But how many people are coming specifically to DC from elsewhere to pop up tents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

PP here. I agree completely, but they are making the choice to remain on the streets. That's not an acceptable option for the community/city in which they live.

Wrong. There is no choice. The availability of shelter beds changes daily, but yesterday there were 7 male beds and 10 female. Today there are zero available. There are approximately 700 DC people experiencing homelessness.

Why is this so hard to understand? There isn't enough housing.

These people are mentally ill, drug addicted and sometimes violent (including sex offenders). While housing costs may have something to do with it on the margins, even a free apartment would not solve the issue (because they would act antisocially and get kicked out).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

PP here. I agree completely, but they are making the choice to remain on the streets. That's not an acceptable option for the community/city in which they live.

Wrong. There is no choice. The availability of shelter beds changes daily, but yesterday there were 7 male beds and 10 female. Today there are zero available. There are approximately 700 DC people experiencing homelessness.

Why is this so hard to understand? There isn't enough housing.

But how many people are coming specifically to DC from elsewhere to pop up tents?

Nobody is moving to DC to save on housing costs by living in a tent. That is not how it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

PP here. I agree completely, but they are making the choice to remain on the streets. That's not an acceptable option for the community/city in which they live.

Wrong. There is no choice. The availability of shelter beds changes daily, but yesterday there were 7 male beds and 10 female. Today there are zero available. There are approximately 700 DC people experiencing homelessness.

Surely all the wealthy in dc can build a place to house them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

PP here. I agree completely, but they are making the choice to remain on the streets. That's not an acceptable option for the community/city in which they live.

Wrong. There is no choice. The availability of shelter beds changes daily, but yesterday there were 7 male beds and 10 female. Today there are zero available. There are approximately 700 DC people experiencing homelessness.

Why is this so hard to understand? There isn't enough housing.

The mayor has said on multiple recent occasions that the shelters have capacity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

PP here. I agree completely, but they are making the choice to remain on the streets. That's not an acceptable option for the community/city in which they live.

Wrong. There is no choice. The availability of shelter beds changes daily, but yesterday there were 7 male beds and 10 female. Today there are zero available. There are approximately 700 DC people experiencing homelessness.

Surely all the wealthy in dc can build a place to house them.

Surely if you are ok with spending $480,000 per day to kick them around, you're ok with prividing housing for those people for $160,000 per day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

PP here. I agree completely, but they are making the choice to remain on the streets. That's not an acceptable option for the community/city in which they live.

Wrong. There is no choice. The availability of shelter beds changes daily, but yesterday there were 7 male beds and 10 female. Today there are zero available. There are approximately 700 DC people experiencing homelessness.

Why is this so hard to understand? There isn't enough housing.

The mayor has said on multiple recent occasions that the shelters have capacity.

But you cannot physically force someone to sleep in a shelter. The logical outcome of the GOP’s approach is that all the homeless people will constantly get arrested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m all for making sure our public spaces are clean and safe, and not places where people sleep or defacate or sit and do drugs in the open or engage in prostitution.

But … I’m unclear on how the GOP thinks that telling people they are not allowed to be homeless will work. Is there plan to just arrest their way out of this so they all end up in jail?

Why hasn't DC built needed facilities and buildings for the unhoused?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

Those who refuse to take medications need to be placed in an institutionalized setting or group home with close supervision.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Not enough and they don't want to go there. And you can't make people stay where they don't want to stay.

That doesn't mean you get to live on the streets.

You can't get blood from a stone. People don't have anywhere to live. Whether you want to look at it or not, they don't have anywhere to live.

The amount that is being spent on this national guard nonsense could certainly go towards trying to solve that problem. But it won't and eventually the national guard will leave and people still won't have anywhere to live.

NP. Disagree. Many do have places to stay and don't want to stay there. Living on the streets just cannot be an option. We have thrown lots and lots of money at the problem, but it won't be solved until the option just isn't there anymore for them to be on the streets.

Another big issue with allowing people to live on the streets is that this is where many of them get addicted to drugs. It's a bad cycle that will continue. The streets are not a safe place. There's also a lot of violence amongst the homeless that's rarely discussed.

People live on the streets ALL OVER THE WORLD. I'm not saying that's great but it is a problem that virtually no country has solved. The glib responses here are just demonstrations of willful ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters.

Those who refuse to take medications need to be placed in an institutionalized setting or group home with close supervision.

+1

Seems pretty hypocritical coming from the "you can't make me take the COVID shot" crowd.