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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't the DC government put the homeless in the vacant office buildings and have a kitchen on the ground floor to feed them?[/quote]

The congress force a blllion of our own money in cuts. What you suggest would be feasible with resources to pay the landlord and procure the needed supplies. Oh well. [/quote]

It isn't about lack of housing only.  Nobody likes to live near homeless shelters or low income/no income housing because of people loitering outside doing drugs or whatever.  For example, in SF Tenderloin area (drug infested skid row) there are many junky "hotels" that provide housing and not all the people you see hunched over or laying around are homeless.  Yet they are making the area look like skid row, which is what residents of any city do not want.  Homeless shelters are practicing extreme measures to avoid this activity, but not in the right way.  They become too restrictive and prison-like to the point that homeless needing help and wanting to recover or get jobs cannot use them.  They restrict times of entry making it hard for people working weird shifts to use them a housing.  They don't allow couples even if married or pets, which means that homeless who are couples or have pets have to surrender their loved ones to get a roof over their head.  Shelters are very helpful as temporary spaces, but they aren't housing.  But just providing housing also isn't going to help many homeless who are addicts or have mental health issues and need caretakers because they can't even take care of themselves not to mention their dwelling. [/quote]

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