Anonymous
Post 06/13/2023 21:25     Subject: Re:Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
If you wanna put the unhoused in concentration camps Just say that. Lol
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2023 11:35     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Then why did DC become a sanctuary city if they don't want immigrants? smdh. Do you DC folks even stop to think for 40 seconds before you vote on stuff?


Because as has already been explained many times before, "sanctuary city" just means the city won't police their immigration status. That's the federal government's job. It DOES NOT mean whatever the hell you think it means or whatever the hell some idiot on conservative talk radio told you it was.


It also means that they will not cooperate with immigration authorities. You get what you ask for
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2023 11:34     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.




Like reservations. Or residential schools.

Ick.
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2023 11:32     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
Anonymous wrote:I say we send the homeless to all of these megachurch pastors. Let them try faith healing the mentally ill and drug addicts. 😆

Make them use their millions on God's work as they claim they would, instead of mansions, yachts and private jets.


Start by putting them on buses to Joel Osteen's neighborhood in Houston, TX. Send them to Kenneth Copeland's house in Fort Worth. Pat Robertson's house in Virginia Beach. Jesse Duplantis and Benny Hinn.
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2023 11:28     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
Anonymous wrote:Homelessness is wildly different depending on which population you are talking about. Women are different from men, who are different from families, and the solutions vary with each. Affordable housing is the solution for families only. Women need jobs, protection from men, job training and housing. Most of the men in shelter have jobs. Skilled job. The come in and out when the money runs out. They working poor. They need AA, NA, then housing. The streets are hardcore homeless. But the streets are 10x safer than shelters - disease, abuse, sex. It's like a prison movie. Mentall illness is a core population, but the rest is hardcore drug use.


There's alternative housing for anyone who is abusive or violent in a shelter: prison. Make use of it.
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2023 09:48     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
Why don’t “advocates” for homeless (or anything) ever advocate to build next to them?
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2023 08:57     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
> Mentall illness is a core population, but the rest is hardcore drug use.


Both of these cause each each other.
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2023 07:02     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
Homelessness is wildly different depending on which population you are talking about. Women are different from men, who are different from families, and the solutions vary with each. Affordable housing is the solution for families only. Women need jobs, protection from men, job training and housing. Most of the men in shelter have jobs. Skilled job. The come in and out when the money runs out. They working poor. They need AA, NA, then housing. The streets are hardcore homeless. But the streets are 10x safer than shelters - disease, abuse, sex. It's like a prison movie. Mentall illness is a core population, but the rest is hardcore drug use.
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2023 06:49     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
Anonymous wrote:Then why did DC become a sanctuary city if they don't want immigrants? smdh. Do you DC folks even stop to think for 40 seconds before you vote on stuff?


They vote with their guilt and egos. So no.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2023 22:12     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
The problem is that the homeless mostly mentally ill people just up and leave wherever they are housed.
They’d be back in DC in no time unless held there at the facilities
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2023 22:01     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
Anonymous wrote:Then why did DC become a sanctuary city if they don't want immigrants? smdh. Do you DC folks even stop to think for 40 seconds before you vote on stuff?


Because as has already been explained many times before, "sanctuary city" just means the city won't police their immigration status. That's the federal government's job. It DOES NOT mean whatever the hell you think it means or whatever the hell some idiot on conservative talk radio told you it was.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2023 22:00     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
I say we send the homeless to all of these megachurch pastors. Let them try faith healing the mentally ill and drug addicts. 😆

Make them use their millions on God's work as they claim they would, instead of mansions, yachts and private jets.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2023 12:06     Subject: Re:Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
I live in a small city that frequently makes lists of “10 cheapest housing markets in the U.S.”

There are multiple tent encampments here nonetheless.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2023 09:41     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
Then why did DC become a sanctuary city if they don't want immigrants? smdh. Do you DC folks even stop to think for 40 seconds before you vote on stuff?
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2023 09:39     Subject: Why don’t advocates for the homeless build spacious housing for them 1-2 hours away from DC?
Anonymous wrote:To the original point, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to house migrants and homeless people in Texas than it would in DC.

Average cost of an acre of land in Texas: Less than $4,000
Average cost of an acre of land in Washington DC: over $4,000,000

How does it make any sense to send them to a place that costs 1,000x more?


This is the only viable and sustainable answer - set them up where housing and services can be provided in a cost-effective way.