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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks don't understand how limiting and dangerous shelters can be. Many homeless prefer to be on the street than in a shelter. Most shelters kick out people from 9am to 6pm each day, so you need to pack up and move your stuff daily.

There's a lot more fighting, theft, and sexual abuse in shelters than on the streets. More interaction with police in the shelters because they are constantly being called to deal with disturbances and interpersonal issues (eg, fights).

At least on the street a homeless person will be left alone if that's what they desire. They don't need to move their stuff everyday. They can keep themselves physically distant from other homeless people.

[b]This city really needs to move to a "Housing First" approach for those homeless who can take care of themselves. Next, the city needs to apply involuntary commitment for those who are mentally insane or too disabled to care for themselves. Finally, any recent homeless who are not from the DC area should be escorted back to their home towns and left with authorities; let them spend their own tax monies on solving this issue. Too many regional localities dump their homeless & mentally ill on DC.[/quote][/b]

I agree with this, but what would the litmus test be? And I can already see the legal challenges to commiting or escorting. Unless DC lays this out as PART of the plan, [b]we are going to be the new hosts for the entire nation's homeless[/b].[/quote]

What do you mean we are going to be? The homeless from all over the country are already streaming to DC because our city is already super generous.[/quote]

Yes, like San Francisco and look what's happening to it. Horrible[/quote]

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