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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]K St was the only one cleared, not the L or M St at Metro. That said, there are still tents under K St, so unless the city is going to do daily enforcement, this is all much ado about nothing.

I vote for a designated camp ground for those who could go to shelters but just don't want to. Perhaps in one of the NE industrial zones along the rail heading out of the city. Maybe even go full on IDP (internally displaced persons) / refugee camp with provision of food and tents and a dedicated security and Red Cross or other NGO staff. And for those who are so mentally deteriorated (whether through addiction or illness) that they are a danger to themselves and others, I don't see any humane solution other than state-funded institutionalization. [/quote]

Yes. The reality is that streets in big cities are becoming open air adult daycare centers and residential mental health facilities.

If that's where the patients are, that's where the services have to be.

One of the services could be to identify people who are too aggressive or too disruptive in other ways to be left on the streets. If homeless people are sitting on the streets and quietly, politely panhandling: OK.

If the street people are being disruptive, or living in a way that shows they're disoriented and not capable of managing their affairs, then we need to figure out how to get them into some kind of formal program.

If people are poor, hate shelters, and can scrape up enough cash through casual labor and polite panhandling to survive, then they ought to have the option of being street people. Maybe they shouldn't be able to camp out wherever they like, but we should designate places where they can camp out.

If street people are actively making other people miserable, or they aren't capable of making a rational decision to live on the street, then, in a kind, orderly society, they shouldn't be living on the street.
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Very reasonable. The let free range homeless advocates are so powerful though, and include pretty much all of our DC council. How and to whom does one make this point.[/quote]

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