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Originally Posted by tucker6
The whole idea that taxpayers should foot the bill to build housing for the homeless completely misses the mark. Spend your money on drug and alcohol prevention programs; mental health programs; jobs training. The unfortunate fact is that even if you did all that, a significant amount of homeless would still wish to remain homeless. Those that do decide to live in housing will destroy it in due time.
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Wasted money. 90% of the homeless choose to be homeless.
The other 10% are temp homeless due to unfortunate luck or circumstances and will accept appropriate help up and out.
Some governments actually encourage em. When I lived in SoCal in 2003 I noticed small fires burning and lanterns inside the huge foliage planted inside the entrance ramps to the 405 from Santa Monica. My wife ran a restaurant not far from there. The freeway workers came in one day for a retirement party. My wife asked them about the lanterns at night. She was informed that 25-30 people lived in a homeless camp behind the foliage. The city installed the foliage to cover up the camp and they agreed to let the squatters camp as long as they stayed out of sight.