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

[Anonymous]

Who is cleaning these houses?

[Anonymous]

If I was the Mayor of DC, I’d bus/fly out any homeless person who wasn’t born in DC or lived here for at least 20+ years. So many are coming from dumpy Red States or the dumpy Red parts of Blue states in search of drug. Once they get caught on a charge, they get escorted to their place of birth by an MPD officer on paid duty to cross state lines.

City Mayors really need to take a hardline on outsiders who come from elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I was the Mayor of DC, I’d bus/fly out any homeless person who wasn’t born in DC or lived here for at least 20+ years. So many are coming from dumpy Red States or the dumpy Red parts of Blue states in search of drug. Once they get caught on a charge, they get escorted to their place of birth by an MPD officer on paid duty to cross state lines.

City Mayors really need to take a hardline on outsiders who come from elsewhere.

I’m sure homeless addicts will gladly produce birth certificates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I was the Mayor of DC, I’d bus/fly out any homeless person who wasn’t born in DC or lived here for at least 20+ years. So many are coming from dumpy Red States or the dumpy Red parts of Blue states in search of drug. Once they get caught on a charge, they get escorted to their place of birth by an MPD officer on paid duty to cross state lines.

City Mayors really need to take a hardline on outsiders who come from elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I was the Mayor of DC, I’d bus/fly out any homeless person who wasn’t born in DC or lived here for at least 20+ years. So many are coming from dumpy Red States or the dumpy Red parts of Blue states in search of drug. Once they get caught on a charge, they get escorted to their place of birth by an MPD officer on paid duty to cross state lines.

City Mayors really need to take a hardline on outsiders who come from elsewhere.

I’m sure homeless addicts will gladly produce birth certificates.

Vital records are all databased. A homeless person already has fingerprints in the system. Hell, if I was mayor, I’d hire a team of 5-6 researchers to figure out where they came from, track down next of kin, etc.

If you come in DC to do drugs and camp in public and generally be a nuisance, you get sent back to where you came from. If DC is your legit home, we will try to get you wrap-around services. The end.

Communities need to take care of their own and stop dumping their problems onto big cities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I was the Mayor of DC, I’d bus/fly out any homeless person who wasn’t born in DC or lived here for at least 20+ years. So many are coming from dumpy Red States or the dumpy Red parts of Blue states in search of drug. Once they get caught on a charge, they get escorted to their place of birth by an MPD officer on paid duty to cross state lines.

City Mayors really need to take a hardline on outsiders who come from elsewhere.

I’m sure homeless addicts will gladly produce birth certificates.

Vital records are all databased. A homeless person already has fingerprints in the system. Hell, if I was mayor, I’d hire a team of 5-6 researchers to figure out where they came from, track down next of kin, etc.

If you come in DC to do drugs and camp in public and generally be a nuisance, you get sent back to where you came from. If DC is your legit home, we will try to get you wrap-around services. The end.

Communities need to take care of their own and stop dumping their problems onto big cities.

What makes you think every homeless person already has fingerprints in the system?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I was the Mayor of DC, I’d bus/fly out any homeless person who wasn’t born in DC or lived here for at least 20+ years. So many are coming from dumpy Red States or the dumpy Red parts of Blue states in search of drug. Once they get caught on a charge, they get escorted to their place of birth by an MPD officer on paid duty to cross state lines.

City Mayors really need to take a hardline on outsiders who come from elsewhere.

I’m sure homeless addicts will gladly produce birth certificates.

Vital records are all databased. A homeless person already has fingerprints in the system. Hell, if I was mayor, I’d hire a team of 5-6 researchers to figure out where they came from, track down next of kin, etc.

If you come in DC to do drugs and camp in public and generally be a nuisance, you get sent back to where you came from. If DC is your legit home, we will try to get you wrap-around services. The end.

Communities need to take care of their own and stop dumping their problems onto big cities.

What makes you think every homeless person already has fingerprints in the system?

Is this a joke? Most homeless people have severe mental issues or were recently released from prison.

Mentally healthy people don’t unroll a sleeping bag on a downtown street because they couldn’t make rent that month.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I was the Mayor of DC, I’d bus/fly out any homeless person who wasn’t born in DC or lived here for at least 20+ years. So many are coming from dumpy Red States or the dumpy Red parts of Blue states in search of drug. Once they get caught on a charge, they get escorted to their place of birth by an MPD officer on paid duty to cross state lines.

City Mayors really need to take a hardline on outsiders who come from elsewhere.

I’m sure homeless addicts will gladly produce birth certificates.

Vital records are all databased. A homeless person already has fingerprints in the system. Hell, if I was mayor, I’d hire a team of 5-6 researchers to figure out where they came from, track down next of kin, etc.

If you come in DC to do drugs and camp in public and generally be a nuisance, you get sent back to where you came from. If DC is your legit home, we will try to get you wrap-around services. The end.

Communities need to take care of their own and stop dumping their problems onto big cities.

What makes you think every homeless person already has fingerprints in the system?

Is this a joke? Most homeless people have severe mental issues or were recently released from prison.

Mentally healthy people don’t unroll a sleeping bag on a downtown street because they couldn’t make rent that month.

I realize your whole plan here is trolling, but you're wrong about this, too. 61 percent of the homeless people in D.C.'s "point in time" survey last year had not previously been involved with the criminal justice system or with mental health institutions: https://community-partnership.org/homelessness-in-dc/ And about half of them have income. A major reason people in D.C. "unroll a sleeping bag on a downtown street" is because they were victims of domestic violence and had to flee their homes. But sure, let's lock those people up if they won't agree to be shipped off to Kentucky or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is plenty of cheap land to be had near the MD/PA border, in southern MD and near Prince William County. Build clean, safe, spacious housing for the homeless there & have them live there only. Bus them to & from DC.

Oh, the poor people in every neighborhood plan of the DC elite and voters is starting to get to you. This is so hilarious, not in your neighborhood. Got it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is plenty of cheap land to be had near the MD/PA border, in southern MD and near Prince William County. Build clean, safe, spacious housing for the homeless there & have them live there only. Bus them to & from DC.

Annnnnd what if they don't want to go?

Totally their choice. Either free nice countryside housing or mandatory trip to shelter. But you couldn't just stay on the street. Shooting drugs on the sidewalk and public defecation on the playground would no longer be acceptable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. It would be much more efficient to provide services to the homeless if they’re housed in one place.

They aren't children or prisoners. Many homeless (and adults in general) do not want others telling them what to do and where to go. Many are not looking for services or housing. They prefer to exist day to day.

That's on DC for letting them destroy our public spaces. That should no longer be a choice. It's also not really compassionate of society to just let someone "choose" to live on the streets and do drugs until they OD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I was the Mayor of DC, I’d bus/fly out any homeless person who wasn’t born in DC or lived here for at least 20+ years. So many are coming from dumpy Red States or the dumpy Red parts of Blue states in search of drug. Once they get caught on a charge, they get escorted to their place of birth by an MPD officer on paid duty to cross state lines.

City Mayors really need to take a hardline on outsiders who come from elsewhere.

I’m sure homeless addicts will gladly produce birth certificates.

Vital records are all databased. A homeless person already has fingerprints in the system. Hell, if I was mayor, I’d hire a team of 5-6 researchers to figure out where they came from, track down next of kin, etc.

If you come in DC to do drugs and camp in public and generally be a nuisance, you get sent back to where you came from. If DC is your legit home, we will try to get you wrap-around services. The end.

Communities need to take care of their own and stop dumping their problems onto big cities.

What makes you think every homeless person already has fingerprints in the system?

Is this a joke? Most homeless people have severe mental issues or were recently released from prison.

Mentally healthy people don’t unroll a sleeping bag on a downtown street because they couldn’t make rent that month.

Wait, when do you think people are fingerprinted? Why would simply having mental health issues result in getting fingerprinted?

Also basically everything y’all are describing is unconstitutional (for now). You are talking about things that would be widely condemned. Criminalizing smoking and sleeping on the sidewalk? Punishing these things with deportation out of the city or forced acceptance of services would simply never happen because it’d get shut down by constitutional challenges immediately.

You don’t know anything about this issue, clearly. You also will get almost no one to staff your concentration camp reservations. Social services work is grueling and has high burnout rates. Working in an institutional setting is even harder. I doubt you’d do it yourself, so maybe consider staying out of complicated issues you don’t understand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So how would they find job/rehabilitation while they’re out there in the middle of nowhere?

Employees would live on-site & security would be strong. On-site medical & addiction services. Busing back and forth to DC for additional resources.

Chain gang, basically. Cool Hand Luke style. What we have here is a --failure to communicate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is plenty of cheap land to be had near the MD/PA border, in southern MD and near Prince William County. Build clean, safe, spacious housing for the homeless there & have them live there only. Bus them to & from DC.

Annnnnd what if they don't want to go?

Totally their choice. Either free nice countryside housing or mandatory trip to shelter. But you couldn't just stay on the street. Shooting drugs on the sidewalk and public defecation on the playground would no longer be acceptable.

""Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I was the Mayor of DC, I’d bus/fly out any homeless person who wasn’t born in DC or lived here for at least 20+ years. So many are coming from dumpy Red States or the dumpy Red parts of Blue states in search of drug. Once they get caught on a charge, they get escorted to their place of birth by an MPD officer on paid duty to cross state lines.

City Mayors really need to take a hardline on outsiders who come from elsewhere.

I’m sure homeless addicts will gladly produce birth certificates.

Vital records are all databased. A homeless person already has fingerprints in the system. Hell, if I was mayor, I’d hire a team of 5-6 researchers to figure out where they came from, track down next of kin, etc.

If you come in DC to do drugs and camp in public and generally be a nuisance, you get sent back to where you came from. If DC is your legit home, we will try to get you wrap-around services. The end.

Communities need to take care of their own and stop dumping their problems onto big cities.

MoCo's model is to attract homeless people thru generous programs, all at the expense of the declining number of taxpayers in MoCo.