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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need a radical new approach.  The current situation helps no one.  First step, the federal government should purchase one of the many ghost towns in rural America that time has passed by.  Second step, offer a chance to 100 able bodied homeless to move there where they will receive free housing, food, and counseling.  Teach them roofing skills, how to hang drywall, basic plumbing, life skills, etc.  Pay the first 100 livable wages to rehab the town.  Then, 100 more move in.  They can leave at any time with a set of actual skills or stay and continue to rehab additional housing.  If successful, this could be done on scale at 100s of sites around the country. [/quote]

I am 100% with you, I have the same ideas and I am sure many people do too.  There is so much abandoned housing that can be revived with already existing infrastructure, there is no reason for tent cities.  But we need to create amenities there that would attract homeless to move there, amenities like free food and medical care and ability to make some money that they are getting in the cities.  Also a lot of them hang out in the city because this is where the drugs are sold.  If we don't do something about this, nothing will work.  Drug dealers will move to these new towns to have access to their customers. [/quote]

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