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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Y’all complain about the homeless crisis.
Y’all complain about a housing shortage.
Y’all complain about proposed solutions.
Rinse and repeat.

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This is actually more horrific than the problem, though. Right now, I walk past the homeless on my way to my office in the urban core of a city. You're suggesting that we should ship them off to neighborhoods.  No. People aren't homeless due to housing shortage. They are homeless due to substance abuse and mental illness. This isn't a solution for that problem. It makes the problem more potent. [/quote]

There are people who are homeless because, despite having jobs, they cannot afford housing where they work or close to it, so they live in their car or in a tent. Yes, this does actually happen. If there were MORE housing where the jobs where, the relative cost would come down, you know, supply and demand.

And yes, there are also significant mental health and substance abuse issues. The GOP has NO solution or proposed legislation around those issues.[/quote]

Well, one thing is for sure.....
The GOP is not trying to force the mentally ill and drug addicted homeless into suburban neighborhoods.  
That is a Democratic policy.  [/quote]

No, they forced them out of mental institutions and defunded the rehab facilities, so they are homeless. I don't know what you mean by "forcing...into suburban neighborhoods" - I guess you only want homeless people to be in urban areas? Or you think there aren't suburban people who are forced out of their homes and are just homeless where they are? Can you clarify this because it doesn't make any sense to me.[/quote]

A lot of the urban homeless got sent to cities from elsewhere, picked up by the sheriff and given a one-way bus ticket, by smaller communities who figured the big cities would have the resources to deal with them.  There have been a lot of articles written about this.  There were also notorious cases like the Nevada mental institution that closed down and just dumped over a hundred mental patients onto street corners in San Francisco.  [/quote]

A lot of the homeless are also drug addicts who went to the city to chase after their poison of choice.[/quote]

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