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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No worries, pp. Every shelter checks for residency...especially for families. DC, MD and VA all check for residency. They also collaborate on a regional level.

It's a myth that homeless people are "from someplace else." [/quote]

Why would they check for residency? A homeless shelter should take in anyone in need of shelter and food.[/quote]

Tell that to all of the communities that round up the homeless and ship them elsewhere.  It's a fact that it happens, and more frequently than you realize.[/quote]

Well, Rudy Giuliani famously did that...put them on buses and drove them to Jersey.

But this doesn't happen anymore. Lawsuits prevent this (for the most part).

Everyone thinks that homeless people flock to their communities for free housing and services, but the data proves that homeless people are locals.

Signed,

20 years of homeless advocacy [/quote]

It does still happen, quite regularly.

The flipside of communities busing homeless out is organizations like Little Sisters of the Poor and others busing the homeless into the community from other locales.  That also happens, quite regularly.

I've seen both of these scenarios, first hand.[/quote]

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