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[quote=Anonymous]Nothing makes me or my family "special", however education makes me have different values. I grew-up with several girls who had abortions while they were still young teens...they used to gently tease me because I chose not have sex while in high school. I went on to college and carefully planned my family. The homeless are in the position of being homeless because they lack an education...that is what needs to change first. Placing them in an expensive neighborhood without helping them learn the values and skills that will keep them and their children out of poverty does not do anyone any good. Money should be spent on job training and improving schools in poor neighborhoods...not buying million dollar lots and building fancy buildings and then hoping that the education and values of those who surround them will simply rub-off on those who had the misfortune of growing-up poor and uneducated. BTW, lest someone accuse me of racism- - the poor neighborhood that I grew-up in was multi-ethnic and plenty of the boys I knew who went to jail (and some of the girls who had abortions as teens) were white. So it's not about race, but low SES and the accompanying lack of education.[/quote]

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