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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do single homeless men need small "neighborhood" based shelters?[/quote]

Spit it out just say what you are afraid of...
The idea of 20-30 junkies nutjobs and criminals all housed in a shelter just hanging around all day congregating on the corners and walking around the neighborhood is frightening and you’re all for helping the homeless but not at the expense of them impeding on your comfortable community and invading your safe space.  You’d rather they be hoarded off and housed in some other part of the city among “their kind” i.e. other low-income undesirables that you similarly would prefer to avoid at all costs.
I totally get it - not judging at all cause it’s an understandable attitude to have but it’s an anonymous forum - so just say it.

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NP - Well, I'll say it.  Most of them would be better off in a long term residential mental health facility.  It is cruel to ill people to leave them sleeping outside, living in their filth and self-medicating their mental illnesses with drugs and alcohol.  It WOULD be better for the community as well.  Too bad that false compassion for civil liberties has overruled common sense.  People who are just down on their luck financially can be housed much cheaper by giving grants of a security deposit and first month's rent for an apartment in a low cost area. - MSW[/quote]

Liberals want them to have all the amenities. Otherwise not compassionate.[/quote]

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