Currently the district is paying scummy landlords millions of dollars to game the system without actually helping any unhoused people. Take that money and just house people directly.

>It truly shows how easily manipulated these people are.

I mean a few years ago these guys would be attending other right wing rallies and brownshirting there.

If your goal is to get people sober, housing is the most effective first step. That's not an opinion, that's a repeatedly demonstrated fact. It's not the only step, but it's the first step. This is a classic case of "would you rather solve the problem, or would you rather be right"?

That people who want help can get free rehab and then housing.

People who don’t want help can’t be helped. Not everything has a solution

So who should have to shelter people who do drugs and likely won’t take care of their space. You willing to rent out a room to one?

I’d rather not have city paid drug dens.

Do you have a solution or are you here just to point fingers and call names?

There was a pretty extensive outreach campaign before they cleared the square. The hard truth is that a lot of, not all, but a lot of the individuals currently homeless are doing so at least partially by choice.

There are a ton of possible reasons for this, whether it’s an unwillingness or an inability to abide by sometimes strict shelter rules, substance abuse or mental health issues, fear of their remaining possessions being forfeited or stolen, just feeling safer and more comfortable on the street than in an unknown environment, or whatever else. The government is not empowered to involuntarily commit someone who’s not an active danger to some facility.

Fuck the Hate Boys.

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I'm pretty sure I have food poisoning. I tried eating toast with jam not too long ago and I couldn't even finish half of it.

The dozen or 2 people that decided they could build a shanty town in a public park 2 blocks from the White House are not "the homeless". They should have been removed way sooner.

I was approved for unemployment, but could not file my weekly benefits because my account was flagged for fraud also. Every week, they were telling me on the phone they were working on resolving it. It was happening to everyone not just me, blah, blah, blah. I finally had to go in person & they resolved it IMMEDIATELY!

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Indoctrination, toxic masculinity, and religion cover most of the bases.

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Yeah, the area beside the reservoir is nowhere near the actual pentagon though. Google maps must have messed up

what if it cost fewer tax dollars to house people than it does to let people live on the street?

Also why do you think the problem is unsolvable when so many other major cities around the world don't have this problem?

I don’t have one. Homelessness will always exist for my lifetime in this city. But I deff don’t want my tax dollars going to fund crack house shelters.

Just cause I’m white doesn’t mean I have to search out Sbarros.

What's the best way to link up with the parasol folks if we attend one? Just want to make sure I know where/when/how to help out as best we can?

Instead you want people to remain living in parks and sidewalks? Or what is your alternative?

The zip codes were established decades before the anthrax screening facilities.

City paid crack houses? Who can’t get behind that idea?