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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks, when you talk about building housing for the unhoused, what are you talking about?   Homeless shelters free housing?  Who is going to pay for all this?  If you become a mecca for free housing, it will just attract more people who want free housing.  But who pays for it.  Taxpayers will only stay in a jurisdiction so long if their taxes are going to house the unhoused rather than paying for excellent schools, police protection, etc.  There is a balance that needs to be struck.  I think our goal should be getting the unhoused into jobs so they can pay rent and taxes.
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homeless people don’t want jobs. you people are so so clueless. [/quote]

So what do you propose as the solution for the homeless crisis? I think most of them have major mental health issues. [/quote]

Honestly, we need to warehouse the mentally ill and addicts  in treatment facilities, voluntarily or against their will, for as long as it takes even if it’s forever. The down on their luck crowd would do fine in SROs and we should build more of them. [/quote]

What's with the homeless encampments still in Rock Creek Park?  There was one near the K Street overpass that recently was removed but there's currently a camp (and trash dump) in the park near the "Buffalo Bridge" at Q Street.  If I want to take my family camping in Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, I need a permit.  Why does NPS continue to tolerate this, with the attendant public health and sanitation challenges, in Rock Creek?[/quote]

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