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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there an organization that is helping them in terms of toiletries and winter clothing? Are there any children in those encampments and do they have access to a school, school supplies clothing etc.?[/quote]

I can't speak to DC but my town has groups (some charity, some government funded) that drive around and drop off tents, sleeping bags,
socks, food, and give information on where do get medical and dental assistance.

My boyfriend has an encampment behind his work place and a RN and social worker have dropped by to check on one of the residents
several times.[/quote]

Why are we encouraging encampments and focusing on making people comfortable camping on city streets? This is not the right thing to do and helps nobody.  The focus should be on relocating these people into permanent or at least temporary housing with sanitary facilities and hopefully services that these people need.  These are people, not stray cats! Your fake compassion is actually killing them by perpetuating the problem and encouraging the proliferation of street life and all the ills it brings with it: drugs, sexual assaults, crime, trash and more rats.   Turning our city neighborhoods into 3rd world shanty towns isn't the solution, but this is precisely what will happen if people will keep focusing on keeping street campers comfortable where they are instead of finding solution to relocate them and help those who could be helped get on their feet and acquire permanent housing and jobs, and getting those addicted or mentally ill help they need.  [/quote]

We closed the mental institutions in the 1970's and it is legal not to treat your own mental illness.[/quote]

Had tent cities been so bad in the middle of all our major cities for all these decades, or is this a recent thing?  And if this is recent, then it must have been illegal before to camp out on city streets.  I don't remember DC being this bad before.  NYC was turning very bad during the pandemic , but they do not allow tents on the streets and they cleared all the encampments at some point a while ago.  Don't get me wrong, NYC still has a huge homelessness problem, and there are unhinged people walking the streets in the numbers that are incomparable to DC, but at least there are no tents on the streets, and clearly NYC isn't trying to make street life comfortable unlike DC.  [/quote]

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