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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there no shelters for the homeless in DC?[/quote]

Not enough and they don't want to go there. And you can't make people stay where they don't want to stay. [/quote]

That doesn't mean you get to live on the streets. [/quote]

You can't get blood from a stone.  People don't have anywhere to live.   Whether you want to look at it or not, they don't have anywhere to live.

The amount that is being spent on this national guard nonsense could certainly go towards trying to solve that problem.  But it won't and eventually the national guard will leave and people still won't have anywhere to live.  [/quote]
NP. Disagree. Many do have places to stay and don't want to stay there. Living on the streets just cannot be an option. We have thrown lots and lots of money at the problem, but it won't be solved until the option just isn't there anymore for them to be on the streets.

Another big issue with allowing people to live on the streets is that this is where many of them get addicted to drugs. It's a bad cycle that will continue. The streets are not a safe place. There's also a lot of violence amongst the homeless that's rarely discussed.[/quote]

I may be wrong, but my understanding is that vouchers were available for those who had been homeless for more than a year. If true, it seems it would be an incentive to come here and to cause an increase in the number of unhoused in DC. [/quote]

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