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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No worries, pp. Every shelter checks for residency...especially for families. DC, MD and VA all check for residency. They also collaborate on a regional level.

It's a myth that homeless people are "from someplace else." [/quote]

Why would they check for residency? A homeless shelter should take in anyone in need of shelter and food.[/quote]

Tell that to all of the communities that round up the homeless and ship them elsewhere.  It's a fact that it happens, and more frequently than you realize.[/quote]

Well, Rudy Giuliani famously did that...put them on buses and drove them to Jersey.

But this doesn't happen anymore. Lawsuits prevent this (for the most part).

Everyone thinks that homeless people flock to their communities for free housing and services, but the data proves that homeless people are locals.

Signed,

20 years of homeless advocacy [/quote]

It does still happen, quite regularly.

The flipside of communities busing homeless out is organizations like Little Sisters of the Poor and others busing the homeless into the community from other locales.  That also happens, quite regularly.

I've seen both of these scenarios, first hand.[/quote]

Do you work for a homeless service provider in the region? While exceptions are sometimes made, the majority of programs are limited to residents. Period.

Sometimes communities will pay to transport someone to another jurisdiction/state if there's someone willing to take responsibility for them in the new community.

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That's what charities do - they bring in homeless from outside and "take responsibility" - except it's the local taxpayers who end up footing the bill whether they like it or not.[/quote]

Not true. You are delusional if you think the homeless people in dc were brought in from other jurisdictions. [/quote]

Done discussing this with you if you're going to accuse others of delusion.  You are free to sit back in your armchair and believe whatever you like and chastize anyone who doesn't comport with your comfortable and convenient little worldview.  I happen to KNOW otherwise. [/quote]

Your anecdotes are meaningless. I've worked in the homeless advocacy arena for two decades...on the national, state and local levels. I'm intimately aware of how providers are funded and how they function...particularly in our region.

Communities do not ship off mass quantities of homeless people.

If you actually worked with homeless providers in the metro area, you'd realize this. The majority of homeless people in dc are residents...lifelong residents. They turn away people from other jurisdictions (as if people would flock here anyway). In MoCo, they turn away dc and PG residents. Fact. [/quote]

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