Someone has started sleeping on the sidewalk next to our house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think you've lost touch with reality and are arguing with some figment of your imagination.

You realize you can both interact with a person as a human being and call for help if that's what they need? Connecting people with available resources is a great thing. If there's a city housing program they can get connected with and you can help make that connection, that's pretty awesome.

If you're just trying to impose your will on them because it's icky to you that's where I have a problem. Keep in mind their humanity and genuinely care about them and I'm sure you'll do right.

Oh brother. Once you have to cross the street because you witness fights, open air drug usage, open air defecation, and constant drug deals outside your local grocery store because nobody bothered to find a better solution for people on the street, then you can come back and tell me just how “icky” it is. This is happening in all corners of the city, destroying once very desirable neighborhoods. This will eventually affect you even if it’s not now. All because people thought they were being kind and humane. It’s not humane to allow people to not follow our agreed upon laws for a safe and clean city.

This points to the larger question. Why isn’t our city council addressing this, along with rising crime issues? Both have serious impact on QOL issues

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think you've lost touch with reality and are arguing with some figment of your imagination.

You realize you can both interact with a person as a human being and call for help if that's what they need? Connecting people with available resources is a great thing. If there's a city housing program they can get connected with and you can help make that connection, that's pretty awesome.

If you're just trying to impose your will on them because it's icky to you that's where I have a problem. Keep in mind their humanity and genuinely care about them and I'm sure you'll do right.

Oh brother. Once you have to cross the street because you witness fights, open air drug usage, open air defecation, and constant drug deals outside your local grocery store because nobody bothered to find a better solution for people on the street, then you can come back and tell me just how “icky” it is. This is happening in all corners of the city, destroying once very desirable neighborhoods. This will eventually affect you even if it’s not now. All because people thought they were being kind and humane. It’s not humane to allow people to not follow our agreed upon laws for a safe and clean city.

This points to the larger question. Why isn’t our city council addressing this, along with rising crime issues? Both have serious impact on QOL issues

I always thought they should build a state of the art homeless "hospital" (mental health, drugs etc for the hard to reach homeless) at the site of the old DC General. These folks do not belong in family shelters around the city. They need hospitalization and possibly life long medical care. If a homeless person is not from DC, they need to be offered a bus ticket to their home state/town. I agree it is something our City Council needs to look at ASAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think you've lost touch with reality and are arguing with some figment of your imagination.

You realize you can both interact with a person as a human being and call for help if that's what they need? Connecting people with available resources is a great thing. If there's a city housing program they can get connected with and you can help make that connection, that's pretty awesome.

If you're just trying to impose your will on them because it's icky to you that's where I have a problem. Keep in mind their humanity and genuinely care about them and I'm sure you'll do right.

Oh brother. Once you have to cross the street because you witness fights, open air drug usage, open air defecation, and constant drug deals outside your local grocery store because nobody bothered to find a better solution for people on the street, then you can come back and tell me just how “icky” it is. This is happening in all corners of the city, destroying once very desirable neighborhoods. This will eventually affect you even if it’s not now. All because people thought they were being kind and humane. It’s not humane to allow people to not follow our agreed upon laws for a safe and clean city.

This points to the larger question. Why isn’t our city council addressing this, along with rising crime issues? Both have serious impact on QOL issues

I always thought they should build a state of the art homeless "hospital" (mental health, drugs etc for the hard to reach homeless) at the site of the old DC General. These folks do not belong in family shelters around the city. They need hospitalization and possibly life long medical care. If a homeless person is not from DC, they need to be offered a bus ticket to their home state/town. I agree it is something our City Council needs to look at ASAP.

I am for this too. My kids all go to private. Use my tax dollars in this manner ( the hospital).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think you've lost touch with reality and are arguing with some figment of your imagination.

You realize you can both interact with a person as a human being and call for help if that's what they need? Connecting people with available resources is a great thing. If there's a city housing program they can get connected with and you can help make that connection, that's pretty awesome.

If you're just trying to impose your will on them because it's icky to you that's where I have a problem. Keep in mind their humanity and genuinely care about them and I'm sure you'll do right.

Oh brother. Once you have to cross the street because you witness fights, open air drug usage, open air defecation, and constant drug deals outside your local grocery store because nobody bothered to find a better solution for people on the street, then you can come back and tell me just how “icky” it is. This is happening in all corners of the city, destroying once very desirable neighborhoods. This will eventually affect you even if it’s not now. All because people thought they were being kind and humane. It’s not humane to allow people to not follow our agreed upon laws for a safe and clean city.

This points to the larger question. Why isn’t our city council addressing this, along with rising crime issues? Both have serious impact on QOL issues

I always thought they should build a state of the art homeless "hospital" (mental health, drugs etc for the hard to reach homeless) at the site of the old DC General. These folks do not belong in family shelters around the city. They need hospitalization and possibly life long medical care. If a homeless person is not from DC, they need to be offered a bus ticket to their home state/town. I agree it is something our City Council needs to look at ASAP.

I am for this too. My kids all go to private. Use my tax dollars in this manner ( the hospital).

+1

[Anonymous]

People saying to help are nuts. Homeless people don’t operate in normal, rational ways. Do not talk to this person directly. That’s what homeless shelters are for. Don’t touch his/her stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think you've lost touch with reality and are arguing with some figment of your imagination.

You realize you can both interact with a person as a human being and call for help if that's what they need? Connecting people with available resources is a great thing. If there's a city housing program they can get connected with and you can help make that connection, that's pretty awesome.

If you're just trying to impose your will on them because it's icky to you that's where I have a problem. Keep in mind their humanity and genuinely care about them and I'm sure you'll do right.

Oh brother. Once you have to cross the street because you witness fights, open air drug usage, open air defecation, and constant drug deals outside your local grocery store because nobody bothered to find a better solution for people on the street, then you can come back and tell me just how “icky” it is. This is happening in all corners of the city, destroying once very desirable neighborhoods. This will eventually affect you even if it’s not now. All because people thought they were being kind and humane. It’s not humane to allow people to not follow our agreed upon laws for a safe and clean city.

This points to the larger question. Why isn’t our city council addressing this, along with rising crime issues? Both have serious impact on QOL issues

I always thought they should build a state of the art homeless "hospital" (mental health, drugs etc for the hard to reach homeless) at the site of the old DC General. These folks do not belong in family shelters around the city. They need hospitalization and possibly life long medical care. If a homeless person is not from DC, they need to be offered a bus ticket to their home state/town. I agree it is something our City Council needs to look at ASAP.

I think what you're referring to is a wrap around service center. Housing, food, showers/laundry, and social/mental health services. Make it attractive enough that people choose that rather than your sidewalk.

I don't think there's a way to discriminate between people from DC vs elsewhere. What if they move to DC and then become homeless? It would be better if there was a common level of service throughout the area (or nation).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People saying to help are nuts. Homeless people don’t operate in normal, rational ways. Do not talk to this person directly. That’s what homeless shelters are for. Don’t touch his/her stuff.

Dehumanizing is your first step. Why don't you talk about where your thought process leads to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think you've lost touch with reality and are arguing with some figment of your imagination.

You realize you can both interact with a person as a human being and call for help if that's what they need? Connecting people with available resources is a great thing. If there's a city housing program they can get connected with and you can help make that connection, that's pretty awesome.

If you're just trying to impose your will on them because it's icky to you that's where I have a problem. Keep in mind their humanity and genuinely care about them and I'm sure you'll do right.

Oh brother. Once you have to cross the street because you witness fights, open air drug usage, open air defecation, and constant drug deals outside your local grocery store because nobody bothered to find a better solution for people on the street, then you can come back and tell me just how “icky” it is. This is happening in all corners of the city, destroying once very desirable neighborhoods. This will eventually affect you even if it’s not now. All because people thought they were being kind and humane. It’s not humane to allow people to not follow our agreed upon laws for a safe and clean city.

This points to the larger question. Why isn’t our city council addressing this, along with rising crime issues? Both have serious impact on QOL issues

I always thought they should build a state of the art homeless "hospital" (mental health, drugs etc for the hard to reach homeless) at the site of the old DC General. These folks do not belong in family shelters around the city. They need hospitalization and possibly life long medical care. If a homeless person is not from DC, they need to be offered a bus ticket to their home state/town. I agree it is something our City Council needs to look at ASAP.

they actually are building supportive housing there, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People saying to help are nuts. Homeless people don’t operate in normal, rational ways. Do not talk to this person directly. That’s what homeless shelters are for. Don’t touch his/her stuff.

Dehumanizing is your first step. Why don't you talk about where your thought process leads to?

well, your thought process leads to large swaths of public space being dominated by encampments, crime, filth, drug dealing. And worse. I saw a developmentally disabled women being prostituted in an encampment, not a mile from the Capitol. So yeah, you let drugs, crime, open defecation, and sex trafficking/rape flourish all over the city - what does THAT lead to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People saying to help are nuts. Homeless people don’t operate in normal, rational ways. Do not talk to this person directly. That’s what homeless shelters are for. Don’t touch his/her stuff.

Dehumanizing is your first step. Why don't you talk about where your thought process leads to?

well, your thought process leads to large swaths of public space being dominated by encampments, crime, filth, drug dealing. And worse. I saw a developmentally disabled women being prostituted in an encampment, not a mile from the Capitol. So yeah, you let drugs, crime, open defecation, and sex trafficking/rape flourish all over the city - what does THAT lead to?

Preach

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think you've lost touch with reality and are arguing with some figment of your imagination.

You realize you can both interact with a person as a human being and call for help if that's what they need? Connecting people with available resources is a great thing. If there's a city housing program they can get connected with and you can help make that connection, that's pretty awesome.

If you're just trying to impose your will on them because it's icky to you that's where I have a problem. Keep in mind their humanity and genuinely care about them and I'm sure you'll do right.

Oh brother. Once you have to cross the street because you witness fights, open air drug usage, open air defecation, and constant drug deals outside your local grocery store because nobody bothered to find a better solution for people on the street, then you can come back and tell me just how “icky” it is. This is happening in all corners of the city, destroying once very desirable neighborhoods. This will eventually affect you even if it’s not now. All because people thought they were being kind and humane. It’s not humane to allow people to not follow our agreed upon laws for a safe and clean city.

This points to the larger question. Why isn’t our city council addressing this, along with rising crime issues? Both have serious impact on QOL issues

I always thought they should build a state of the art homeless "hospital" (mental health, drugs etc for the hard to reach homeless) at the site of the old DC General. These folks do not belong in family shelters around the city. They need hospitalization and possibly life long medical care. If a homeless person is not from DC, they need to be offered a bus ticket to their home state/town. I agree it is something our City Council needs to look at ASAP.

Don’t assume there’s any support network in the home town. Sometimes people leave for very good reasons like they are fleeing domestic violence or there’s no mental health services in their home town.

[Anonymous]

Keep in mind, many of these people are still homeless by choice. We need to face the fact that shelters and social programs won't have the same affect on them as they do with the temporary homeless or families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep in mind, many of these people are still homeless by choice. We need to face the fact that shelters and social programs won't have the same affect on them as they do with the temporary homeless or families.

Why are there no public campgrounds for people who don't want to live in a house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People saying to help are nuts. Homeless people don’t operate in normal, rational ways. Do not talk to this person directly. That’s what homeless shelters are for. Don’t touch his/her stuff.

Dehumanizing is your first step. Why don't you talk about where your thought process leads to?

well, your thought process leads to large swaths of public space being dominated by encampments, crime, filth, drug dealing. And worse. I saw a developmentally disabled women being prostituted in an encampment, not a mile from the Capitol. So yeah, you let drugs, crime, open defecation, and sex trafficking/rape flourish all over the city - what does THAT lead to?

That's completely misguided and a sick way to justify dehumanizing people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Keep in mind, many of these people are still homeless by choice. We need to face the fact that shelters and social programs won't have the same affect on them as they do with the temporary homeless or families.

Why are there no public campgrounds for people who don't want to live in a house?

Be ause they want to live alone on the sidewalk near your fence. Who tf wants to live among a bunch of homeless people?