r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Garey_Coleman • 9d ago
Where are the homeless supposed to go?
Cities have been cracking down on homeless people so they can’t have encampments or stay on sidewalks. At the same time usually the shelters are full. So those who are unable to get into a shelter, where are they supposed to go?
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u/Reverend_Bull 9d ago
"Away". We think of them like household trash - it goes magically "away" to another place where it ceases to exist. But as anyone who's ever lived downstream of a landfill can tell you, "away" is just someone else's neighborhood.