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What's with all the homeless people in Atlanta? Is this a new thing?
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:29 am
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:29 am
In Atlanta for a work convention and did a run this morning around downtown and Georgia Tech and felt like the entire run I was having to dodge and weave my way around and endless conga line of homeless people.
Has Atlanta always been a Hotspot for homeless or is this a recent development? Don't remember it being this bad
Has Atlanta always been a Hotspot for homeless or is this a recent development? Don't remember it being this bad
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Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:31 am to goldennugget
Yes been that way for going on 10Y
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:31 am to goldennugget
It’s a newer development post Covid. Thankfully most of the dicey ones stay around the central downtown area. Nothing to do there anyway.
This post was edited on 10/15/25 at 9:32 am
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:33 am to goldennugget
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around downtown and Georgia Tech and felt like the entire run I was having to dodge and weave my way around and endless conga line of homeless people.
um, duh?
Have you been to literlaly any big city's downtown? Homeless aren't unique to atlanta.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:34 am to goldennugget
It’s not new. Atlanta has had a visible homeless population for decades, mostly concentrated around downtown and the Connector. The last few years just made it more obvious because of housing costs and shelter cuts.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:34 am to WG_Dawg
They are in the suburbs, too. Just pray they don't set an interstate on fire.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:35 am to goldennugget
Homeless encampments and visibility have exploded in every city of any size since 2020
Zero chance you didn't know this GN
Zero chance you didn't know this GN
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:08 am to goldennugget
It's been that way for quite some time now. You should see all the folks lined up on the exchange ramp from I-20E to I-75/85N in the afternoons. It's been the same 20 or 30 people lining the ramp there for at least six years.
Not sure if they're actually homeless or have just set up tents to wait out the elements between panhandling sessions if the weather turns sour. Either way, they're not going to miss the opportunity to look pitiful as they stare at the people stuck in slow-crawling traffic who are trying to merge.
Not sure if they're actually homeless or have just set up tents to wait out the elements between panhandling sessions if the weather turns sour. Either way, they're not going to miss the opportunity to look pitiful as they stare at the people stuck in slow-crawling traffic who are trying to merge.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:13 am to goldennugget
It's bad & they are all over the city. If you allow homeless in your city it will eventually disintegrate & Metro Atlanta allows it. It is one of the reasons I moved, it got pretty tiring.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:13 am to goldennugget
Went to Centennial Park about 20 years ago, it was full of homeless… 
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:15 am to goldennugget
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What's with all the homeless people in Atlanta? Is this a new thing?
Are you 12?
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:25 am to goldennugget
Northern cities like NY, Philly, Baltimore, Boston, have been shipping their homeless to southern cities since about 2005.
They buy them a bus ticket and a weeks stay in a no tell motel. After the money runs out, they are the new cities problem.
The new City of St. George has been sending these people back to their home states if they are willing to go, or they can go into treatment (or jail if there are warrants)
They buy them a bus ticket and a weeks stay in a no tell motel. After the money runs out, they are the new cities problem.
The new City of St. George has been sending these people back to their home states if they are willing to go, or they can go into treatment (or jail if there are warrants)
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:27 am to goldennugget
Every major city esp in downtown areas are full of homeless people.
I honestly wished they expat them to dedicated camps on the outskirts to somehow deter people from choosing to be homeless.
I honestly wished they expat them to dedicated camps on the outskirts to somehow deter people from choosing to be homeless.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:31 am to goldennugget
Did you know that if you stop feeding the bears in Yellowstone, they learn to go out and get their own food again*?
* There is this unique concept called self-sufficiency, where you take care of yourself and are not dependent on others for what you need to be happy, joyous, and FREE.
* There is this unique concept called self-sufficiency, where you take care of yourself and are not dependent on others for what you need to be happy, joyous, and FREE.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:31 am to goldennugget
Atlanta has had a homeless problem in that area for my entire lifetime.
Had a family member work for delta so I used to get $40 round trip tickets to Atlanta on a whim and fly out there and frick around for the day and fly back when Young SS was a teenager. One of my top things to do was to go frick off on GT campus after leaving the underground
Had a family member work for delta so I used to get $40 round trip tickets to Atlanta on a whim and fly out there and frick around for the day and fly back when Young SS was a teenager. One of my top things to do was to go frick off on GT campus after leaving the underground
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:36 am to goldennugget
Last time we went to Atlanta was 2019, and there were homeless encampments on the grass of the interstate exits. People chilling out like right next to the interstate.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:29 am to goldennugget
100% chance of seeing homeless people begging on the I-20 eastbound to I75/85 northbound exit ramp.
Been this way for years.
Been this way for years.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:38 am to Honkus
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Yes been that way for going on 10Y
It was that way before the Olympics. When has it not been that way?
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:42 am to goldennugget
It's been that way for decades. It got bad during Bottoms's administration during COVID It really hasn't gotten worse since but it is a problem.
This post was edited on 10/15/25 at 11:47 am
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:46 am to WG_Dawg
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Have you been to literlaly any big city's downtown? Homeless aren't unique to atlanta.
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