I feel this pain fundamentally.

Tax dollars used to improve public safety, put 1/3 of that group in better and more sustainable conditions, allow access to public resources and pay district residents for their labor? Sounds like a four way success to me

DC makes it almost impossible to be involuntarily homeless (or at least to go without a roof over your head at little or no cost). Maybe this is callous of me but I don't have much tolerance for those who turn that down, pollute the city with drugs and needles, turn sidewalks into no-go zones and relieve themselves in public parks.

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You literally just quoted me than paraphrased it wrong.

I can't teach you the nuances of written English.

Harm reduction isn’t easy, but usually when someone got addicted, it wasn’t easy either. Most of the people I speak to when I’m supporting them with fresh supplies say that they want to get clean, but they don’t know where to find support. The folx who can find MAT clinics and stay supported eventually do get sober. Sobriety isn’t an overnight thing. LA I believe has a housing first model that does get people housed and slowly weans them off of whatever they’re using on the streets and gets them onto a MAT regimen. There’s also a program in North Carolina that does the same thing. The main block to those programs being implemented nationwide are policy changes and funding.

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>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".
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>"a dozen or 2 homeless people who decided to build a shanty town in a central park"

You said they werent homeless. Then you said they were homeless. This isn't word games. Either you're trolling or truly contradicting yourself.

They like it.

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Nah u/lenme125 is just here to virtue signal and feel good about themselves. That way they can pretend that they're Compassionate Helpers without actually having to show compassion or help.

If you interacted with them directly, you would see public nudity and shooting up. There were needles and narcan everywhere. The drugs made some of them violent. These are just facts.

...," they said, having literally no idea what they were talking about.

>I’d rather not have city paid drug dens.

Tbh I'd prefer this over a city subsidized open air homeless encampment where presumably the same activity happens.

As opposed to the three thirds that remained on the street prior to the clearing…

1/3 off the street is great!

Agreed. There’s been reports that the money that’s supposed to be going towards housing the folx in the parks people on this sub are clutching their pearls about is actually being spent clearing them instead. Color any of us surprised.

That's what the ADHD pros tell me.

And a different park is not. In a year, they will come back to this park when the current dirty park is cleaned.

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If your issue is resolved, you lack object permanence.

Lol!

Taxes. Taxes aren't your money. I have yet to bomb a small Yemen boy with my stealth bomber because it's not my money.

There's a decent number of people that honestly just have zero interest in rejoining society. A lot of people don't want to accept that. "Just give them homes" isn't a catch all solution.

Nah, you're just using a weird aloof super progressive attack pose to try and push me into saying something you can screenshot for a tweet later. Just let it go man. Everyone else knows what I said. I don't need an editor.

I can understand your perspective that that’s a particularly bad spot for a homeless encampment I just don’t see why you feel the need to vilify the homeless people themselves

Well the park is clean now, so while you work on that other business, my issue is in fact resolved.

Yep. They still can't turn McPherson SQ into their personal KoA.

Where is the money coming from then?

But there is no way to deal with a judgement proof tenant next door. What are you going to do about them? “The same way I deal with other neighbors” is as vague as can be.