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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a homelessness crisis in our nation, but nobody wants to do anything about it. Instead, everywhere you look a new luxury condo/apartment complex is being built. Our country is pathetic.[/quote]

People want to do something about it, but the problems is that no one wants to do the tough measures required.  NYC recently increased it budget to help the homeless to 2 [b]B[/b]illion dollars to help the 80,000 homeless, most of it apparently going to NGOs and all of their bloated managers.  In San Fran, the city directly operates homeless tent camps costing $60,000 per tent/year.   There is plenty of money going to the problem.

They tried to forcibly remove the tents and encampments to make these people get help, but they were sued and now must have a hands-off approach.   If you do not force change, it will not happen, and no one will forcibly remove these people and MAKE them go into centers to get help.  Vagrancy used to be against the law.  Now it is not compassionate and we don't care.  Baloney.  We care to get them off the streets and into safe, sanitary housing, but in most cases, they don't want to follow the rules required to obtain the housing.

As to your statement regarding the luxury condos/apartments, they have built endless housing units out of old motels and homeless shelters, and they either destroy them or say they do not want to live by the rules.  There was a poster here a while back stating her husband was part of a construction team that built an amazing shelter somewhere in NOVA, and they had donations from major donors, such as Nike for shoes and clothing, local restaurants to provide food, etc.   They were called back to do repairs within a few months because the sinks had been kicked off the walls, spray paint all over, toilet paper holders and stall doors ripped down, trash everywhere.

Have you looked at European cities?  They have barriers in place all over their cities to discourage homeless lounging on the sidewalks and in doorways.

What is it you would like your pathetic country to do that we are not doing?  [/quote]

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