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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks, when you talk about building housing for the unhoused, what are you talking about?   Homeless shelters free housing?  Who is going to pay for all this?  If you become a mecca for free housing, it will just attract more people who want free housing.  But who pays for it.  Taxpayers will only stay in a jurisdiction so long if their taxes are going to house the unhoused rather than paying for excellent schools, police protection, etc.  There is a balance that needs to be struck.  I think our goal should be getting the unhoused into jobs so they can pay rent and taxes.
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Agree with you, but your last sentence is not going to be possible, except for the smallest percentage of people, because a very large number of “unhoused” have moderate to severe preexisting mental health challenges, and various substance dependences, that they simply cannot get themselves out of, even if they had the clarity and determination to do so, which many don’t, without significant investment and time -  by them and by those who will pay for it.  And even then, for many it will not be possible.  Building housing won’t work, it doesn’t solve the real challenge.    [/quote]

Then they should be in a shelter or halfway house where services can be provided -- not in private apartments.[/quote]

People could steal their possessions. You have a private dwelling, do they deserve less than you?[/quote]

People are currently stealing our possessions in our private dwellings.  Is that the goal?  Make it all equally bad?[/quote]

It does seem like the goal is to make it all equally bad... [/quote]

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