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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are tent cities because poor people can’t afford DC rents and the housing voucher waitlist has been closed since 2013. Lack of investment in services, shelters, and public housing is what causes tent homelessness. Have compassion. [/quote] Yeah, no. Meth is everywhere, mentally ill people can't be forced to take their medicine or be hospitalized, and people don't like the rules shelters impose.[/quote] I believe that the most recent programs from the city to dismantle these homeless encampments have included re-homing the people displaced into supportive housing (hotels with a plan to move them into apartments). You are surely right that some of these people have problems that supportive housing alone will not solve. But getting them into more permanent, safer, more sanitary housing seems like a great first step, for them and for everyone in the city.[/quote]
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