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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would watch and move their things when they are gone. And call the police/behavior health/shelter emergency line constantly. I’m all for supporting people but not allowing a homeless encampment to be established by my fence. Because it will never go away. They can camp beneath an underpass or on a median - not on a residential corner. [/quote]

:shock:

You are not a good person.

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naively allowing a homeless encampment to grow in front of your house is not being a good person. it’s being naive and hurting yourself and your family, and not helping anyone. it some cases it’s hurting people because it becomes a loci of drug dealing and crime. [/quote]

No one is suggesting just leaving him be. The compassionate people are advocating calling non-profit or government services that can HELP him rather than stealing his stuff, spraying him with a hose (!!) or calling the cops on him.

There's a lot of space between naiveté and calling the cops. [/quote]

And those of us with experience in this area can tell you that the belief that there's some super-nonprofit or government agency that is going to scoop them up and put them in housing is naive.  DC does not forcibly take people to shelters, and most people on the streets chronically are not just waiting for a nice social worker to tell them about their options.  DC doesn't even remove encampments unless they are a clear threat to health and safety, or just truly politically untenable (like the one outside of the school).

Most likely, this is just one person, who will move on. But I certainly would not be sanguine about it, because of the massive issues with encampments we have right now.  [/quote]

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