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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need a radical new approach.  The current situation helps no one.  First step, the federal government should purchase one of the many ghost towns in rural America that time has passed by.  Second step, offer a chance to 100 able bodied homeless to move there where they will receive free housing, food, and counseling.  Teach them roofing skills, how to hang drywall, basic plumbing, life skills, etc.  Pay the first 100 livable wages to rehab the town.  Then, 100 more move in.  They can leave at any time with a set of actual skills or stay and continue to rehab additional housing.  If successful, this could be done on scale at 100s of sites around the country. [/quote]

You are brainstorming from the incorrect assumption that these are able bodied people of sound mind who are homeless simply because they haven't found work lately.[/quote]

One town is for the able bodied to learn a trade.  Another town is for the addicts who will receive on site services.  Another town is for the mentally ill to receive care.  Each town would have a different mission and set of resources.  Local laws should be changed and enforced to make camping illegal.  Those arrested will have a choice: go to jail or go get help in this pilot program.  This should be piloted in a small scale.  What’s to lose?  [/quote]

Are you going to build a fence around the town?[/quote]

If camping is illegal then where will these people go? Surely free shelter and food would be a more attractive option compared with begging in the city and sleeping under the sky on the streets exposed to weather elements.  And if carts and other belongings homeless scatter around residential streets will be constantly removed, they will move to greener pastures.  No wall needs to be built when something looks like "greener pasture" compared to unbearable life on city streets.  If you keep making encampment life comfy, nobody will move, no brainer here.[/quote]

I think you vastly underestimate the situation. No matter how bad you make it, there are people that will want to be on the streets in the city. [/quote]

Where the drugs are.[/quote]

Drugs follow demand and dealers come to the areas where there are buyers.  It's a self-perpetuating circle of hell.  Keeping tent cities would bring more dealers into the areas where they are concentrated, and in turn would bring more and more tent dwellers.  And there are very nice areas of the city where these tents are appearing too, there were no drug issues in these areas from what I would gather.  
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