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Maybe the small town America should be dealing with their own homeless rather than shipping them off to the &quot;liberal cities&quot; and then disingenuously talking about those cities' homelessness problems.  Many of DC's homeless aren't originally from DC.[/quote]

This is a myth.

In general, &lt;10% of the homeless in the major cities in America are from out of the metro area. An even smaller percentage is from out of state.

The majority of homeless are “temporarily” homeless — albeit temporary can be a long time, and I can only imagine how long it feels to the family.

Most homeless are families, with a working mom (sometimes dad) and school aged children.

The “Reagan cut funding to mental health” is mostly a red herring these days, so that liberals in the cities (I’m a liberal, in a city) can justify their NIMBY opposition to housing but still live with themselves.

The solution to homelessness is dramatically more housing in our cities. Not “affordable” housing, just dramatically more supply of housing. If we doubled the supply of housing in DC, the demand would be there to soak it up. Sure, my house value in my leafy Ward 3 neighborhood *might* go down. The horror. But there’s also a chance my children might be able to afford to live in the city. I’ll take that.

Whatever you think of his politics, if you are interested in this topic, Mathew Yglesias is a very thoughtful and grounded-in-the-data writer on this topic.[/quote]
，most of homeless families do not sleep on DC streets. 
The homeless people who sleep on street or under bridges are adults with some personal issues that could be mental health and/or drug.    When was llast time you saw a homeless family sleeping on street ?[/quote]
Where do the homeless families go?  This is a sincere question.[/quote]

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