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Trump wants to evict homeless from Washington

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I read yesterday , that he wants to put homeless people in a long term institution, it's supposed to be nice. But I doubt it will be nice on the inside. More like our of sight, out of mind. Homeless people are are undesirable looking . Upper middle class and rich people don't want to see ugly things.
 
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I read yesterday , that he wants to put homeless people in a long term institution, it's supposed to be nice. But I doubt it will be nice on the inside. More like our of sight, out of mind. Homeless people are are undesirable looking . Upper middle class and rich people don't want to see ugly things.
Also, over half of them have drug addictions, mental illness, or both.
 
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Also, over half of them have drug addictions, mental illness, or both.
Possibly true.

The question is how best to manage them.

According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, substance abuse is more prevalent in people who are homeless than in those who are not. In many instances, substance abuse is the result of the stress of homelessness, rather than the other way around. Many people begin using drugs or alcohol as a way of coping with the pressures of homelessness. https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-statistics-demographics/homeless
 
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I read yesterday , that he wants to put homeless people in a long term institution, it's supposed to be nice. But I doubt it will be nice on the inside. More like our of sight, out of mind. Homeless people are are undesirable looking . Upper middle class and rich people don't want to see ugly things.
Like the nice hotels they've been housed in for free, they'll completely trash the inside. That's how they operate. That's what happens to the downtown area of the small city I live in. Even with daily clean up crews there's trash and articles of clothing strewn about, lots of half eaten food containers laying around, and excrement and vomit. Us poor working class don't like looking at it either.
 
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And yet they are our brothers and sisters. "Wherever you do to the least of my people..."

But what are we to do besides ship them out of our sight?

In our little community people complain about the soup kitchen because it seems to attract more homeless.
 
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And yet they are our brothers and sisters. "Wherever you do to the least of my people..."

But what are we to do besides ship them out of our sight?

In our little community people complain about the soup kitchen because it seems to attract more homeless.
I'm sure most of society would rather see these people well off living a nice life than being out on the sidewalks. But I've watched interviews of homeless people and heard what social workers have had to say, and a lot of them are resistent to a better way of life because that would require meeting certain standards and giving up certain things and taking responsibility. Proverbs speaks pretty harshly against those sorts of people. There's a difference between someone who's destitute though no fault of their own and those who put themselves on the road of destruction.

As for what is to be done, I think everything that can be done is in place. But again, many who can benefit from it refuse to go along with what is necessary to obtain it. On a support forum I've been on for many years there was a homeless man always asking for a handout or a favor. And one member who is a social worker went out of her way to help him, and he proved to be impossible to help. He wouldn't go along with anything she arranged for him. Apparently all he wanted was handouts and favors and was insistent on carrying out a self-destructive lifestyle.
 
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What ever we are currently doing to solve the "homeless" crisis, it isn't working. Time for some new ideas.
Yeah, new ideas. Like workhouses.
 
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But I've watched interviews of homeless people and heard what social workers have had to say, and a lot of them are resistent to a better way of life because that would require meeting certain standards and giving up certain things and taking responsibility.
Because of mental health issues America is unprepared to support them with.
 
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