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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]

Maybe don't put those individuals together?  Maybe actually do the work evaluating each of these people and their needs like all homeless and mental health outreach services promise to do? And don't create generic one size fits all shelters.   What we need instead is institutionalize mentally ill and severely drug addicted, ship all the lifestyle hobos who prefer outdoor living and don't want any rules outside of city limits into the open campground field somewhere with toilets and communal kitchens (campgrounds), and provide tiny private units or even pods for people who want the rehab and to get back on their feet.  Make education or part time work doing whatever one can mandatory to get a unit and you will see that people who seek help will get back on their feet faster and feel like human beings who are respected and contribute, or at least take care of themselves and their housing.  [/quote]

+1 excellent proposals[/quote]

Think this through. Where is the money for your proposal coming from? As if no one ever thought of this and lobbied for those funds before.

Also, what if the "hobo" doesn't want to live at your campground?  [b]Are you willing to make it a crime to be mentally ill or unemployable or in serious debt? Are we OK with debtors prison[/b] when 90% of the time the debt is due to predatory practices or lack of knowledge?[/quote]

DP. Why not? It worked for the Victorians. But, seriously, the GOP pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mentality effectively sees mental illness, unemployment, or debt as moral failings which should not be shouldered by the wider society as a whole. [/quote]

Society is best served when we take care of people, especially the most vulnerable.

ICYMI: you can’t punish the crazy out of the mentally ill. You can’t punish the poverty out of the poor. You can’t punish the frailty out of the elderly, infirm, disabled, etc.

Google “exercise in futility.” [/quote]

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