Well not my neighborhood, but in my broader municipal area, only about half the shelter/housing capacity is used. The number of empty but available free shelter capacity is close to the estimated number of people on the streets. They haven’t figured out how to get them to prefer the shelters over street living.
Not to say there aren’t problems but even when they make a pretty compelling effort, it’s still not a slam dunk to get the unhoused into proper accommodations.
I want to be left alone too. But the homeless live where I live and I never get peace. You get to leave the homeless encampment and live in peace. I don’t get peace in my neighborhood, so what’s the answer to that?
Right, hard working Americans and their children are now exposed to public defecation, open air drug use (not a big deal to me, except for the needles left behind), and antisocial behavior. We don’t have an answer to that in this shithole country 😂😂
Do you live in a neighborhood with a homeless crisis?
Well not my neighborhood, but in my broader municipal area, only about half the shelter/housing capacity is used. The number of empty but available free shelter capacity is close to the estimated number of people on the streets. They haven’t figured out how to get them to prefer the shelters over street living.
Not to say there aren’t problems but even when they make a pretty compelling effort, it’s still not a slam dunk to get the unhoused into proper accommodations.
I’m frequently in the Boston area nicknamed “methadone mile”. And, as I said, very many of these people want to be left alone.
They don’t want to be forced into treatment or into shelters.
I want to be left alone too. But the homeless live where I live and I never get peace. You get to leave the homeless encampment and live in peace. I don’t get peace in my neighborhood, so what’s the answer to that?
I don’t have an answer. That’s why I asked in my initial comment.
Right, hard working Americans and their children are now exposed to public defecation, open air drug use (not a big deal to me, except for the needles left behind), and antisocial behavior. We don’t have an answer to that in this shithole country 😂😂