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[quote=Anonymous][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]

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Same thing for the whole idea of "affordable housing." If you want affordable housing, no problem. The bus leaves in 30 minutes and [b]you will arrive in cow country in 1 hour.[/b][/quote]

Yeah, but who is going to care for them in cow country?  Even if there are cabins available with indoor plumbing someone has to pay to maintain this primitive housing in functioning order and pay for utilities.  What about food? How will homeless eat?  Believe it or not, they get free food in the cities from various charity organizations and from empathetic pedestrians.  Even if they are able to cook for themselves where will they get groceries in the rural land without a car and money? What about medical care? Expensive ambulance rides to tiny rural hospitals? Here they can walk into any emergency room and won't be turned down, nothing to collect, so they get free medical care (at least emergency care).   Do you see how they can only be served in the city and survive in the city given that they can keep themselves dry and warm? For rural thing to work there has to be a commune with services and also employment opportunities for those able to work (to run some services), and job training for those willing and able.  [/quote]

News flash:  Labor cost to care for them is a lot cheaper in cow country, too.  And how do you think rural people get their food?  From stores.  From farms.  You don't think the homeless could learn a bit of farming?  Do you think the charities that take care of the homeless now will just say "huh, I guess there are no more homeless" and just close shop?  You have a lot of flaky ideas believing that rural America is some kind of complete vacuum where nothing exists.  I grew up in rural America, people can live just fine there.[/quote]

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