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It's part of living in a broken city.

Your city (and country) does not need to have a massive homeless problem. This is something the city and state government can fix. Housing, mental health support, drug treatment support and better community policing are all possible, and proven to work.

How to get the city and state (and national) governments to fix this problem is another issue.

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Ah yes blame the "city" and not the various municipalities sending their homeless to said city. Most of the homeless are not from the cities they are in. They just end up there and then the city has to pay for it for some reason.

We’ve created the lawless environment that attracted them to our cities. They weren’t coerced to come here, we enticed them to come here.

I've lived in a major us east coast city up until the pandemic. My tax dollars kept going down the drain dealing with homeless who by in large were not originally city residents. Your opinion that these people were enticed to the city is wholly unfounded and totally made up. Just another reason I've mentally checked out of the debate. Y'all have fun with that. I'll live in the burbs.

Your comment isn’t coherent. The homeless haven’t been forced into the cities. They chose to go there and the cities chose to welcome them.

I don't entirely blame the city government, though that does have some responsibility, the rest lies with the State and national government.

If the homeless people got the support and resources (eg, healthcare, a secure job, and a reasonably priced place to live) they needed somewhere they were familiar with, far fewer would be leaving to head to a city to try and survive.

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