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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are all of these inane posts coming from the same insecure McLean Gardens resident?

This shelter will be temporarily housing homeless families.

Not the long-term mentally ill homeless.

I hope the folks who are posting about pan-handling realize that most homeless are actually employed full time?

And the point of quickly getting them into transitional housing is to keep them employed and thus capable of paying their own way so they don't become part of the long term homeless crowd and so that their children's educations aren't interrupted.

But McLean Gardens go ahead and keep it classy and paranoid on here![/quote]

Nobody sees the homeless people who don't look it but are actually living out of their cars and even though they have a job its low-paying and they simply can't afford an apartment in this area.
Nobody sees the homeless families who don't seem it but are actually bouncing from one friend/family members place to another every few months relying on generosity until it ultimately runs out.
Nobody sees the nuances of homelessness the only thing society sees are the extremes.
Society sees the dirty, foul-smelling, drug-addicted psychopaths who lay sprawled out on sidewalks or loitering around stores begging for change and assume that's the one and only version of homelessness.[/quote]

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