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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in NW DC, the homeless folks haven't gone anywhere, after clearing the nearby encampments there is a distinct uptick in the number of people I see now laying out on the medians, park benches, bus stops and in front of the libraries. It's not like any meaningful change was made, and once this all blows over I guarantee you the encampments will return.[/quote]

The encampments were actually an improvement over homeless in the parks and sleeping on the street. Now they are gone...[/quote]

if only there was a place they could shelter or be detained if they commit crimes?[/quote]

There would need to be a whole lot of very inexpensive housing built in DC for the sheltering to happen. For mentally ill and addicts, the official shelters don't work well.

I'm old enough to remember that old hotels would be turned into cheap rooms for rent for extremely low earning people: you would rent a bed and room and that was it. All of those have been torn down, but need to make a comeback if you want people off the streets. [/quote]

You want the likes of Tenderloin district in San Francisco?  It's what they have, cheap rundown hotels full of drugs, prostitution and worse.  People who aren't homeless technically still loitering outside bent over and passed out in their own feces, drug deals in the open, people shooting up in the open on the sidewalks in front of the busy farmer's market my elderly relatives frequent.  The saddest thing driving around there is seeing kids in strollers rolled by their degenerate parents who are high on drugs.

Honestly, people hate to say this because it's not PC, but nobody wants degeneracy around them.  Nobody wants housing for addicts and people who cannot take care of their own bodies, not to mention their apartments near them.  It's like kicking the can down the road, not solving the problem.  The truth is that half of these people need to be institutionalized as they don't just need a roof over their heads or a meal, they need caretakers.  [/quote]

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