Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?

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Anonymous wrote:We should enact an “adopt an unhoused person program”where we do outreach and establish a rapport, familiarity and ongoing conversation with an unhoused person culminating in house sharing-moving the unhoused person into our home and making them part of our family.’

A town in Belgium has been doing that for over 700 years. The town is anchored by a psychiatric hospital where patients receive medication, therapies, and daily activities. Some portion of the patients live as boarders in the homes of town residents.

The system only works if you have stable government funding.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/world/europe/belgium-geel-psychiatric-care.html

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Anonymous wrote:We should enact an “adopt an unhoused person program”where we do outreach and establish a rapport, familiarity and ongoing conversation with an unhoused person culminating in house sharing-moving the unhoused person into our home and making them part of our family.’

A town in Belgium has been doing that for over 700 years. The town is anchored by a psychiatric hospital where patients receive medication, therapies, and daily activities. Some portion of the patients live as boarders in the homes of town residents.

The system only works if you have stable government funding.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/world/europe/belgium-geel-psychiatric-care.html

Which we never have for anything here in the US because GOP obstructionism while mumbling incoherent garbage about "communism."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We should enact an “adopt an unhoused person program”where we do outreach and establish a rapport, familiarity and ongoing conversation with an unhoused person culminating in house sharing-moving the unhoused person into our home and making them part of our family.’

A town in Belgium has been doing that for over 700 years. The town is anchored by a psychiatric hospital where patients receive medication, therapies, and daily activities. Some portion of the patients live as boarders in the homes of town residents.

The system only works if you have stable government funding.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/world/europe/belgium-geel-psychiatric-care.html

Which we never have for anything here in the US because GOP obstructionism while mumbling incoherent garbage about "communism."

You do remember that the GOP loves to lock up the public in institutions? Democrats won't fund involuntary incarceration.

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Will never happen because “freedom”

[Anonymous]

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Which again needs a.) cheap real estate for building housing b.) an environment for development that will allow it c.) sustainable staffing, jobs and resources to sustain it (though the Finnish program ultimately saves taxpayers money) and d.) political will.

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Which again needs a.) cheap real estate for building housing b.) an environment for development that will allow it c.) sustainable staffing, jobs and resources to sustain it (though the Finnish program ultimately saves taxpayers money) and d.) political will.

Which goes back to the original premise, that this needs to be done 1-2 hours away from DC, at an affordable location.

[Anonymous]

Too many resources are being spent on chicken dinners, gumbo, and goody bags to enable the street life.

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Which again needs a.) cheap real estate for building housing b.) an environment for development that will allow it c.) sustainable staffing, jobs and resources to sustain it (though the Finnish program ultimately saves taxpayers money) and d.) political will.

Which goes back to the original premise, that this needs to be done 1-2 hours away from DC, at an affordable location.

Yes, we know you'd love to pawn off DC's homeless on VA and MD suburbs. Not happening, thanks for playing.

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Which again needs a.) cheap real estate for building housing b.) an environment for development that will allow it c.) sustainable staffing, jobs and resources to sustain it (though the Finnish program ultimately saves taxpayers money) and d.) political will.

Which goes back to the original premise, that this needs to be done 1-2 hours away from DC, at an affordable location.

Yes, we know you'd love to pawn off DC's homeless on VA and MD suburbs. Not happening, thanks for playing.

Why not? We already know that most of DC's homeless were pawned off on DC from outside of DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too many resources are being spent on chicken dinners, gumbo, and goody bags to enable the street life.

I actually agree with this. Give to vetted institutions.

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Which again needs a.) cheap real estate for building housing b.) an environment for development that will allow it c.) sustainable staffing, jobs and resources to sustain it (though the Finnish program ultimately saves taxpayers money) and d.) political will.

Finland has not let millions and millions cross the border. Get rid of all non-citizens and then we can talk.

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Which again needs a.) cheap real estate for building housing b.) an environment for development that will allow it c.) sustainable staffing, jobs and resources to sustain it (though the Finnish program ultimately saves taxpayers money) and d.) political will.

Finland has not let millions and millions cross the border. Get rid of all non-citizens and then we can talk.

FFS. Most of the homeless are home-grown. The ones who cross the border work hard, pay for the roof over their heads and the food on their tables.

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Which again needs a.) cheap real estate for building housing b.) an environment for development that will allow it c.) sustainable staffing, jobs and resources to sustain it (though the Finnish program ultimately saves taxpayers money) and d.) political will.

Finland has not let millions and millions cross the border. Get rid of all non-citizens and then we can talk.

FFS. Most of the homeless are home-grown. The ones who cross the border work hard, pay for the roof over their heads and the food on their tables.

There are far more foreign-born homeless here than you might expect. They become homeless at a roughly similar rate to native born, but without local connections they often congregate in cities like DC.

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Which again needs a.) cheap real estate for building housing b.) an environment for development that will allow it c.) sustainable staffing, jobs and resources to sustain it (though the Finnish program ultimately saves taxpayers money) and d.) political will.

Finland has not let millions and millions cross the border. Get rid of all non-citizens and then we can talk.

FFS. Most of the homeless are home-grown. The ones who cross the border work hard, pay for the roof over their heads and the food on their tables.

There are far more foreign-born homeless here than you might expect. They become homeless at a roughly similar rate to native born, but without local connections they often congregate in cities like DC.

Citation needed