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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If the city would just pass a law requiring people with unused bedrooms in their homes to house people experiencing homelessness, this whole problem would be solved overnight. You could do it with a lottery system. Addresses of people who qualified would be picked randomly, and those houses would accommodate one person off the street.

Those who didn’t comply would go to jail, and then their entire home could be used in their absence.

It’s such an obvious solution for a progressive society. It just takes the wherewithal on the part of our elected leaders to implement it.[/quote]

Your would-be satirical troll post is uncomfortably close to what DC policy actually IS---which is paying landlords above-market rents to house the unsupervised homeless in their buildings.  Then the other tenants bear the brunt of the erratic (and sometimes criminal) behaviors.
The PP who suggested reformation of the involuntary commitment laws and a redirection of public funds towards the creation of humane and therapeutic environments for the involuntarily committed  had it right.  But this---like so many policy issues---is where the left and the right fail to come to reasonable compromise.  The left just wants more money funneled to the homeless mentally ill without taking the necessary step of making involuntary commitment a much easier process.  The right doesn't really want to pay for humane facilities, and just wants to shuffle the mentally ill homeless out of sight/out of mind.  That doesn't work either.  [/quote]

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