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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would really prefer the people who attack me to own homes, or at least be renters. I would feel much less outrage.[/quote]

Your facetiousness isn't bringing victims back to life. People point is that instead of advocating that the mentally ill be given tents, advocate for treatment and safe facilities.[/quote]

Yeah, people who are a danger to themselves and others need help. No one is arguing with you there.

People who you just don't like to see on the streets should get housing, not crappy shelters and restrictions that prevent them from getting work.  Or a tent if they need it to survive in the meantime.[/quote]

Many of them have Ben offered housing and refused it because they don't want to give up using drugs. [/quote]

Why require them to give up using drugs first?  It's not an easy thing.  We don't require homeowners to give up drugs before getting a mortgage interest deduction.[/quote]
Tell you what, if you don't have a problem with people in active, rock-bottom addiction living somewhere, then you go ahead and rent out your apartment to them. See if they burn the place down or kill the kid down the hall by leaving the fentanyl out. I had enough watching fights, people nodding out, scoring, stealing, hustling, and defecating everywhere on 17th street to know I don't want those people in my apartment building until they are clean. If you are in such active addiction that you are now on the street, you are incapable of being okay just because you get housing. [b]There need to be programs that house and treat people simultaneously.[/b] I suspect there are some, but these folks have to want to get clean and most simply do not. [/quote]

Agree 100%. I think the fairly recent opening of rentals in Van Ness-area apartment buildings to recently homeless people has been a disaster because their behavior has been disruptive to the neighborhood. This is unfortunately why "housing first" is not the answer. Nor is it acceptable to leave people without reasonable shelter, and come on guys--tents are not humane! Housing and treatment (voluntary or not) have to go together and might need to be compulsory.[/quote]

Can we go back to when they were stuffed in poor black neighborhoods only?

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From whence they came [/quote]

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