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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi all, if you have time to whine on DCUM about homeless people you have time to google the answers to your questions. Yes many cities do bus "our citizens" to lower cost of living areas. It doesn't necessarily help them.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-homeless-people-cities-are-bussing-them-out-of-town[/quote]

It doesn't solve the problem but it still has to be a lot better than being in the highest cost-of-living part of the country.  Even if the homeless get a disability check or other source of money it won't go as far here in DC than it would elsewhere.  And the services like providing food for them costs donors and taxpayers a whole lot more to do here in DC than it would elsewhere.  Also, when other municipalities send thousands of homeless to San Francisco or Washington DC it overwhelms and breaks the system, as it has done with the thousands sent here by Greg Abbott.

So no, it doesn't make the problem go away but it is nonetheless better and makes a lot more sense to bus them out of expensive locations where the homeless have been historically concentrated than to do nothing and let the current paradigm just get worse and worse.[/quote]

Thank you for sharing your uneducated opinion. So valuable.[/quote]

We've already seen your "educated" opinion - that its's somehow fine to just allow every other community in America to bus their own homeless, their own mentally ill, their own drug addicts away and dump them on cities like San Francisco, DC, Philadelphia and so on.  That it's somehow fine to burden the cities with all of that, overwhelming their shelters, their mental health treatment and intervention infrastructure, their police, their social services, their charities, their tax base etc. That's your brilliance already on display with the tent camps and poop on sidewalks.  BRILLIANT.  What an educated genius you are.  CONGRATULATIONS.[/quote]

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