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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are two separate issues--

-normalizing homeless encampments in shared city spaces

-the need for clean, safe public restrooms for everyone

They may overlap, but the former should be challenged while the second can be supported

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A public restroom in DC will be usable for exactly one day before it is severely vandalized and made unusable by people doing their business on the floor in sinks and elsewhere not meant for urination or defecation or a homeless person moves in.  Don’t believe me, see Union Staion.[/quote]

True. Which is why DC should

a) address (appropriately move along) homeless folks who prefer to live in restrooms than shelters or hospitals

b) buy advanced self-cleaning toilets and pay for the cleaning, maintenance upkeep

We have a budget surplus and can address both.

Or, we can just accept being a s*-hole. Pardon the pun.[/quote]

Don't some states give homeless people bus tickets and send them out west where the clinate is nicer. Why not do that?[/quote]

DC absolutely should encourage and help recent arrivals to return home..also, sleeping in park encampments should not be allowed.[/quote]

That's where part of San Francisco's homeless problem came from - police rounding up the homeless and giving them one-way bus tickets, "Hey wanna go to California?  It's warm there!"  They also send them to the nearest city, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were right wing sheriffs sending homeless to DC.  Instead, the homeless should be sent back to the communities they came from.  Homeless shelters need to be better figured out - addressing the things that make homeless people feel safer on the streets than they do in shelters.  And, kicking them out on the streets every morning is a bad plan.  And in addition to homeless shelters, maybe communities should provide stipends for family members to take them in.  If they are seriously mentally ill they should be institutionalized.  [/quote]

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