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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get why DC is such a magnet for the homeless.  I suspect red states and red counties round up a lot of their own homeless and dump them on DC as some kind of "statement" the way Abbot does with migrants.  But it's stupid, because everything costs so much more in DC - real estate costs, labor costs, etc.

Perhaps a better plan would be for DC to buy land and build facilities in a much affordable community like Charlotte or Hickory NC, or Huntsville or any number of other places, and move them there to care for, and they could do it for a third of the cost of trying to care for the homeless in DC.  And, it would make it a lot easier to transition them out to independent living there as well.

We've already heard that many of the homeless don't have family here in DC - and many of them aren't originally from DC.  What's to keep them here?[/quote]

Same reason they are homeless:  inertia. Get somewhere, stake out a place, learn who has the best free food, find a drug source, figure out where to pee and poop. Done and dusted.  [/quote]

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