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

Would you like to spend the night in a room with 50 mostly addicted, mentally-ill and often violent individuals off their meds?

Exactly.

The homeless don't want to share a confined space with these people either. The streets are generally safer than the shelters. [/quote]

PP here. I agree completely, but they are making the choice to remain on the streets. That's not an acceptable option for the community/city in which they live. [/quote]

Wrong. There is no choice. The availability of shelter beds changes daily, but yesterday there were 7 male beds and 10 female. Today there are zero available. There are approximately 700 DC people experiencing homelessness. [/quote]

Why is this so hard to understand? There isn't enough housing.[/quote]

The mayor has said on multiple recent occasions that the shelters have capacity.   [/quote]

But you cannot physically force someone to sleep in a shelter. The logical outcome of the GOP’s approach is that all the homeless people will constantly get arrested. [/quote]

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