re: What can actually be done about homeless people?

Genocide



---100% not serious, but I'll bet I can find some people that think that without saying it.

A first start would be zero tolerance for homeless villages. Stop letting tent cities pop up, and stop tolerating bad behavior from the homeless.

Crack a few skulls for taking a shite on a sidewalk, and you’ll start to see the homeless clean up their act

The question might be better posed:

What can YOU actually do about homelessness.

Rather than wait for others to take action to address the ills of society, decide to take action yourself. From delivering a tent, to housing someone in your own home, there are steps that each of us can take

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What can YOU actually do about homelessness.

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Also, people's families need to do something. I thought if someone became disabled before a certain age their family was responsible for them. Seems like if someone is mentally disabled before that age then the family should take care of them and not taxpayers.

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Forced mental health and rehab facilities.

Offer $1,000 to them to sterilize them.

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A lot of homeless are so brain dead no amount of mental health care, or rehab will ever make them a productive member of society. Some can probably still be saved, but they have to be willing to change their life, you can't just force them.

Agree with you on the paid sterilization. We need that available for more than just the homeless.

Its actually a concept that almost got passed in the 60's under Nixon (the democrats killed it because they wanted to ask for more money lol).

Thomas Paine and Milton Friedman were for it.

Ask yourself - do you want the gov't to have all the money siphoning into programs with tons of bureaucratic waste? OR would you rather it be in your hands to improve yourself as you see fit - basically Alaska and the petroleum fund.

There is also the give directly initiative in Kenya which has seen strong increases in effectiveness of aid by putting money directly into the hands of villages instead of some "aid package" that ends up not really helping much relative to its costs.

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I think we have to first look at what causes homelessness. Is mental illness a primary cause? If so, then how do we get them help? Without looking at any numbers, if I had to guess, I would think that addiction and mental illness is the primary cause.

There are homeless shelters available, but it seems to be a first come, first serve type of deal.

Homelessness is a problem in every major city and is a burden on the cities. I think there needs to be some type of shelter built that provides the basics. The shelters can be individual blocks (like apartments, but much smaller). The blocks will have a bed & a small bathroom with a shower and toilet and one electrical socket and provides one hot meal a day (have a few that is a little bit bigger. That has 2 beds, for families).

From there, law enforcement can then be more aggressive enforcing laws that restrict homeless people from sleeping in public, begging, etc. etc. That's really all I can come up with.

Round them up and put them on Alcatraz

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Better access to mental health care facilities. Many homeless folks suffer from severe mental health issues and we have a huge, huge lack of affordable inpatient facilities in this country.

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Wont do much good without the ability to coerce them. It's really hard in this country to force someone to do something against their will. That's overall a good thing, but this is an unintended consequence.