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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They could have redeveloped the hospital into a state of the art medical grade shelter and then passed a nanny law (they love those for other circumstances) mandating forcible hospitalisation for the dire homeless we all pass on the streets every day. But no, they'd rather use bus shelters and the computer section of all our public libraries - forget the kids doing research, older people without tech and job seekers. Oh, and rather than stick the new family shelters near the limo liberals houses (like the observatory) let's crowd up Wisconsin and CT. Ace with even more development. Let's waive aesthetic and height codes. I totally applaud any NIMBYs who wanted the CP library to just be a.library. this city has ample.resources for planned development and taking care of people, but instead create fake concerns about skin in the game to cloak basically more.mismanagement and selling out to developers..[/quote]

How about, Ronald Reagan shouldn't have closed all of the federal mental facilities. If you really want to get down to brass tacks about why the homeless situation is where it is. Kids doing research at libraries? The internet has completely displaced that. Primary and secondary sources abound at the fingertips. Development should be on Wisconsin and Connecticut Avenue - where do you propose new development go?[/quote]

The state mental institutions were shut down because the left hated them and thought them institutional and repressive, and the courts also ruled that people couldn't be institutionalized against their will, even if they were certifiably crazy. The idea was to replace the state mental institutions with more intimate group homes in normal settings, with the belief that many of the people formerly in the institutions could become part of the local communities. As it turned out, the mental inmates went straight from the group homes to the streets, because most had drug/alcohol problems and group homes couldn't allow possession of drugs/alcohol on the properties. Blaming it on Reagan does you no good when the vast majority of the blame falls squarely on liberal do-gooders and their ultimately flawed beliefs and ideals surrounding the mental institutions and mentally impaired people. And, that our laws prohibits us from committing people to mental institutions against their will. [/quote]

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