Yes, but when your solution is to lock them up or have the cops come kick them out and move them along, you’re admitting you don’t actually care about solving the problem, only keeping it out of your sight.

Not to say that is what your solution is, but I live next to a high homeless population, but extremely affluent area, and the discussion on Facebook and Reddit would have you think that the only feasible solution is to build prisons and lock these people up forever, but they always preface it with that same needle complaint, as if that justifies dehumanization of people, and isn’t just an indictment on our systems.

Needles in your front yard isn’t as important a priority as human beings having a place to sleep and something to eat. It just isn’t.

We should house anyone without means as a society.

In lieu of that, they set up tents in the commons, because we are a profoundly antisocial, individualistic selfish society and aren’t willing to do better for our fellow citizens as they’re our capitalistic competition.

To then petition your local government to remove tent cities by your house, or call the cops on a homeless person taking refuge in an area of the commons near your home, is just further harassing the brothers and sisters of our society we have already failed so completely.

Our homelessness epidemic is a reflection and condemnation of all of us. It’s sad that for so many, the priority is getting that reflection out of their eyeline. Ignorance is bliss.