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How is it affecting you? You don’t live in a tent. Do you just not like seeing poor people?

The parks are not for camping. Set up Quonset dorms with facilities, including dining and a health clinic at the unused RFK parking lot.[/quote]

I actually think this is not a bad idea because I agree with you that parks (or sidewalks, in the case of Dupont Circle) are not for camping; however, there are already sufficient shelters, the issue is that mentally unbalanced homeless people do not want to use them---the non-violent mentally ill quite rightly don't want to be jammed into close quarters with the more volatile and potentially violent mentally ill.  Add to that that most homeless shelters do not allow people to stay in them all day and drink/do drugs.  Quonset huts would essentially be an outdoor mental hospital---and just having a police presence wouldn't be sufficient---you would need trained staff capable of handling and de-escalating situations.  What you are describing is almost like Hamsterdam in "The Wire".[/quote]

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