r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Garey_Coleman • 10d 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/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 10d ago

In my neck of the woods, there's a NIMBY campaign to try and stop a project that will turn a rundown old motel into transitional housing. They justify this by saying that it's half a mile from a school, but this is a small town - everywhere is at most half a mile from a school. It's not in the middle of a residential neighorhood, either - it's located by a freeway offramp next to a bunch of tire shops. If that's not an acceptable place to these people for a shelter, then where should it go?

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u/Guidance-Still 10d ago

Oh I get it nobody with the money has the answer either

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u/someguyonthisthing 9d ago

So if you lived there, have kids, you’re saying you should just accept that’s life? Well kids, the drug users who shit their pants in our neighborhood is just a way of life! Someday you’ll grow up and aspire to do drugs and live on the streets 👍 lmao