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The vast majority of homeless are drug addicts and alcoholics. The receive welfare but choose to spend their rent money on booze and drugs. We should take the potion of their benefits intended for housing (50%?) and ensure that is spent on hosing.

To do this all welfare payments should be divided into two approximately equal parts. One part should be given to a government agency who will spend it to provide housing and the second part would be paid to the beneficiary. This would end the financial benefit of being homeless and encourage them to leave the streets.

How 'bouts the payments just stop. I have to work for my drug and booze money. Govn't doesn't give me any money. Make 'em get a job.

With a government bureaucracy running the housing,
The homeless wouldn't be allowed in a cardboard box.

And couldn't afford a $50 tent.

Leaving them to sleep in the rain on the sidewalk.

It's what government does.
Makes things harder, more expensive,
Worse!

Personal priorities would be a good start.

With 22 shells running ten cents a pop, it's a real problem.

Just like a problem bear, quit feeding it and it will go away.

Free meth and they have to purchase needles.

From a practical standpoint I doubt that it would work. That was basically the concept of housing projects. Housing a bunch of addicts increases the problems. The last thing addicts unwilling to work need is to be artificially government subsidized housed next to each other and bringing all of their kids into it with them.

Flushing them out of homeless camps while offering drug rehab and mental health programs as an option to jail with a very temporary homeless shelter for those that choose to take advantage of it is the most humane and practical option IMO. It’s sad but some won’t take advantage of it due to very severe mental or chemical problems. As a society they still need to be ran out of camps that are a magnet for societal problems for them and everyone else.

Giving addicts or the mentality ill free housing is not humane. It’s bad for them and worse for their kids. They’ll take the free housing and minimal welfare support and then pay for their habit with rampant crime.

The most humane solution for them and for society is to jail them for all of the crimes that come with homeless populations. Open intoxication, vagrancy, theft, fights, drug use, prostitution ect and offer drug and mental health facilities for those that choose to take advantage. Some will take advantage and some won’t lock up the ones that won’t. Sad but realistically what else can you do?

Give them property to squat in the cold places. Force it.

39 lashes every time they're caught high.

You propose another government sponsored ponzi scheme? There would be a few real estate developers who would be billionaires on the backs of taxpayers.

Nope.

Their "job" would be armed robbery, burglary, and petty theft. You serious don't think you'd see any of these people working the drive thru at Chic-fil-A?

When I was a boy I had an old Cherokee Chief (1976)... I used to mud alot back then.

Papa came out one day mad as hell... mud all over the driveway. Raising hell...

I tried to standup to him... 16 year old backtalking chit. "What is the Problem!?"

"Son... there are "Problems"... and there are "Situations"!" He said

Being stupid (and falling for the bait) I ask what was the difference...

"This fugging Jeep is a Problem, but I can sell it and solve that Problem immediately."

Doubling down on my stupidity (and mad)... I asked what was a "Situation"?

Stone cold sober he stopped and turn around... "The Middle East... THAT is a "Situation"... always has been AND always will be!"

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Homelessness is identical...

So is Stupid...

America is ate up with the stupid in 2022.

The Government can't house the homeless, every motel/hotel room is being used to house illegal aliens. They are a priority in Slo-Joe's administration.

Cut them off and run them all out of town. Simple.

Free fentanyl dispensers.

Take the money spent in Ukraine and aggressively start treating drug addictions. Or keep sending it to Ukraine and to hell with our addicts. I hate going to Denver for anything these days. Thousands upon thousands of drug addicts lining the streets.

The problem is so bad that I am convinced it takes a pretty good distribution management system to get that many drugs to that many homeless. Be interesting to unravel who is behind that system.

That would ruin the Marxist Profit Sharing Plan..

If people WANT to overdose and live homeless... why in the world should we stop them?

That is a real question...

And please do not respond "Because they steal and such..."

That is what Gaston made a Glock for...

Well i guess they could all be rounded up and placed on reservations.
That might work, so long as one of them dosent find some gold in the area.
But first things first.
lets start a real war at the southern boarder.