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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the homeless are from dc or md. Few  others may be originally from elsewhere, but moved to dc for work and lost their jobs.

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Most from DC?  What percentage, and where did you get that data?  I ask because I hear a lot of non-DC accents among the homeless.

And how many who came here did in fact merely lose their jobs, no other issues like mental illness or addiction?  If that's truly the case then why isn't anyone back home helping them get back on their feet?[/quote]

DC creates the problems, let DC deal with the problems. IMHO they should be dumped in front of the Capitol and let the law makers deal with what they begat.[/quote]

That is, without a doubt, the most moronic thing anyone has said in this thread.  You should be embarrassed, PP.

First of all, DC didn't create the problem.  DC does not even have federal representation.  DC residents create NO federal policy of any kind.  DC has no say in anything anyone does other than within city limits.  Instead, policy is created by people from the REST of the country, THEY are the ones coming to DC making federal policy.  Learn some damn civics, PP.  Don't post idiotic nonsense in a politics board if you are that ignorant.

Secondly, whose fault is it?  Most of the homeless are mentally ill or have other serious issues and can't hold down a job because of those disabilities.  So are you going to blame them?  Is it their own fault that they are mentally ill?  Which party has ever bothered to actually try and help them?  Republicans?  Hell no.  What Republican policies have ever done anything for the homeless?  If anything, Republican policies have only ever resulted in cutting funds for mental health treatment and social programs to try and keep the homeless from starving in the street.

If they should be sent anywhere it should be send them to the offices and front yards of Republican members of Congress until they finally get the idea that having mentally ill people freezing and starving in the street isn't a good thing.[/quote]

No offense, but DC has a largely Democrat mayor, council etc. Who legislate. We can certainly tackle homelessness. Instead we told the federal park police to NOT dismantle these camps, and so it continues that that "is the solution"[/quote]

That is not a solution.  But Park Police being shitty toward the homeless is not a solution either.

My proposal would be something like this:
1. Mental health evaluations
2. Evaluate where they are from.  If they are not from DC, then someone else should be taking care of them and take whatever legal action necessary, whether getting their home communities to take them in or forcing their home communities to pay.
3. If they are a danger to themselves or anyone else, put them into an institution under supervised care
4. If they are not a danger to themselves, provide them with managed housing (not tents and not paying above market rate).
5. They are also responsible for the upkeep of the housing.  Unsanitary behavior gets them referred to institutional care.
6. Integrated case management and assistance with clear timelines, milestones and objectives - for example treating substance addiction or helping those who just had an issue where they became homeless because they lost their job and couldn't pay rent and getting them back on a path to self sufficiency.
7. If the homeless don't like it, they can move to somewhere else with different policies with the homeless.[/quote]

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