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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]well they didn't get the homeless guy who smeared excrement all over a Wisconsin Ave building door just this past Sunday. I don't like Trump but they can come get that guy.[/quote]

And take him where? I mean I'm all for housing these people and institutionalizing them if they need to be monitored, but Trump isn't doing that.[/quote]

outside of the city limits where people live and try to raise families.  Build outdoor compounds with toilets and showers and garbage disposal service outside of the cities in rural land somewhere.  People who want tent living can continue living outdoors, those who want indoor living can have micro apartments. You can even make it a farm commune, which many people may find restorative to recovery.  Have homeless people take care of homeless animals (animal shelter work).  Recovery through labor is very effective.  Part time work based on people's ability can be very rewarding and give needed dopamine to people who are down and out making them feel needed and respected and not treating them as victims deserving only our pity and not respect.  It signals to people that we, as society gave up on them.  Shelters in urban areas can also work, but will have to have strict rules of behavior and open drug use, because it's so dense and in the face of other citizens and families and kids.  People who want to follow rules of behavior can stay in urban shelters, but the shoudl not be so draconian as to make it impossible for people to live with dignity.  Micro apartments or dorm style living with shared bathrooms/kitchens can work, plus requirements for part time work doing simple things that our volunteers are doing now, like cleaning trash, graffiti, invasive foliage, etc, or getting job training.

Dignity and respect is what many of these people need who want to recover, not slow suicide in drug induced coma on the streets and begging and seeing disgust or pity in people's faces who walk by.

For those who are severely mentally ill and too far gone in their drug addiction we need to bring institutions back.  They need caretakers, not billions of dollars that disappear every year from the budget of many cities to address the problem that only gets worse[/quote]

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