PP here. My hometown (small rust belt city) has become a place for a lot of Catholic Charities migrant recipients, and section 8 voucher holders priced out of the NYC metro area. Basically very exburban poverty. People there are very very xenophobic and locales will say things on Facebook & the local newspaper you wouldn’t believe.

Anonymous wrote:Because people think they're entitled to live where ever they want. I agree, build huge homeless shelters in Kansas, etc where land is extremely cheap. If people truly cared about housing needs, they would. But they don't, because they have rights to have easy access to drugs etc. in urban centers where land is much more expensive to house them.

People believe they they're entitled to not be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. I don't know where they get that idea from.

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People who live in small rural towns generally don’t like outsiders & have “tough on crime” mindsets. They’d probably shoot one of the homeless people at first sight.

Anonymous wrote:Because people think they're entitled to live where ever they want. I agree, build huge homeless shelters in Kansas, etc where land is extremely cheap. If people truly cared about housing needs, they would. But they don't, because they have rights to have easy access to drugs etc. in urban centers where land is much more expensive to house them.

I don’t even know where to start with this one

Because each state/county is responsible for them so who would cover all the costs?

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Anonymous wrote:There is plenty of cheap land to be had near the MD/PA border, in southern MD and near Prince William County. Build clean, safe, spacious housing for the homeless there & have them live there only. Bus them to & from DC.

They don’t have access to the services they need in rural and exurb areas.

Answered that already. Service providers would live onsite and provide services. Residents would be bused to population hubs frequently.

Service providers with families and interests dont want to live in the middle of nowhere. Look at small towns without doctors, hospitals that close their maternity centers and surgery centers and lack of mental health facilities everywhere. Plus if you out stuff far awah from public it will be ripe for embezzlement and mistreatment. Just look at private prison system.

Because people think they're entitled to live where ever they want. I agree, build huge homeless shelters in Kansas, etc where land is extremely cheap. If people truly cared about housing needs, they would. But they don't, because they have rights to have easy access to drugs etc. in urban centers where land is much more expensive to house them.

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Anonymous wrote:There is plenty of cheap land to be had near the MD/PA border, in southern MD and near Prince William County. Build clean, safe, spacious housing for the homeless there & have them live there only. Bus them to & from DC.

They don’t have access to the services they need in rural and exurb areas.

Answered that already. Service providers would live onsite and provide services. Residents would be bused to population hubs frequently.

This is woefully naive.

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Anonymous wrote:There is plenty of cheap land to be had near the MD/PA border, in southern MD and near Prince William County. Build clean, safe, spacious housing for the homeless there & have them live there only. Bus them to & from DC.

Annnnnd what if they don't want to go?

Their options should be: go, be put in prison or find market-rate housing yourself.

Why exactly would prison be an option for people who haven't been convicted of crimes?

Pitching a tent on the sidewalk, smoking, littering, causing fires due to portable heaters all should be crimes

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Anonymous wrote:There is plenty of cheap land to be had near the MD/PA border, in southern MD and near Prince William County. Build clean, safe, spacious housing for the homeless there & have them live there only. Bus them to & from DC.

They don’t have access to the services they need in rural and exurb areas.

Answered that already. Service providers would live onsite and provide services. Residents would be bused to population hubs frequently.

Anonymous wrote:There is plenty of cheap land to be had near the MD/PA border, in southern MD and near Prince William County. Build clean, safe, spacious housing for the homeless there & have them live there only. Bus them to & from DC.

They don’t have access to the services they need in rural and exurb areas.

Is a free, elective, participation, prison such a terrible idea? As long as you truly have the freedom to leave. After all some people have confessed that they only committed a crime because they wanted to go back to prison to have housing and food. I don’t think this sounds like such an awful model for a shelter. Obviously, you would have to search people upon entrance for weapons and drugs, actually not that different than being put into prison. But you could allow people to leave, have minimum wage work on site not to similar to prison labor, some basic medical care.

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Anonymous wrote:There is plenty of cheap land to be had near the MD/PA border, in southern MD and near Prince William County. Build clean, safe, spacious housing for the homeless there & have them live there only. Bus them to & from DC.

Annnnnd what if they don't want to go?

Their options should be: go, be put in prison or find market-rate housing yourself.

Why exactly would prison be an option for people who haven't been convicted of crimes?

Anonymous wrote:Like reservations?

Or concentration camps.

Anonymous wrote:Stop offering the homeless services, and you’ll stop attracting them. Also, give them bus tickets to southern cities.

This. Free one way tickets to Miami/Tampa/Jacksonville