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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m all for making sure our public spaces are clean and safe, and not places where people sleep or defacate or sit and do drugs in the open or engage in prostitution.

But … I’m unclear on how the GOP thinks that telling people they are not allowed to be homeless will work. Is there plan to just arrest their way out of this so they all end up in jail? [/quote]

Why hasn't DC built needed facilities and buildings for the unhoused?[/quote]

The money goes to NGOs that try to run shelters. However, local neighbors fight them. So that money pays salaries to spreadsheet warriors and lawyers. [/quote]

Neighbors don't want degeneracy around them, they don't want drug alleys, people screaming or fighting all hours of the day or having sex in the open, they don't want needles to step over.  Shelters have draconian rules and do not allow people to do any of the above on premises, they also have curfews.  What inevitably happens is that shelter inhabitants take all the activity outside.  It's like none of you have a brain to not understand this simple fact or have never been to places near shelters, public housing, methadone clinics or visited glorious SF Tenderloin district where people are not all homeless, but yet you won't want to lilve there or walk around there.

Shelters like we have do not belong in residential areas. Instead we need micro-apartments or dorms with shared kitchens and bathrooms maintained by the residents as part of labor requirement.  The only people allowed to live in these shelters have to be enrolled in some rehab, education program and/or do part time community work (like taking care of their own building)  This can lead to future job opportunities and these type of shelter would allow couples, pets and life with dignity and privacy.  But you cannot stuff these places with mentally ill who need to be in an institution or severely drug addicted who need careful rehabilitation or those who just gave up on life and waiting to die.

Also what happens near shelters is opportunist drug dealer targeting the area knowing there are many customers.  Without strict control of this the idea of an urban shelter simply won't succeed.  I've lived and worked near shelters and methadone clinics in more than one city. [/quote]

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