Where are the homeless supposed to go?

[u/Garey_Coleman]

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?

[u/bannedbooks123]

As long as people aren't shooting up heroine in them and leaving their dirty needles around that you couldn't pay someone enough to clean up. Speaking of, heroine needles are another health hazard

[u/jimthesquirrelking → u/bannedbooks123]

There are sharps boxes that are mass produced and easy to leave in these restrooms. You can throw as many "but what about this dirty thing or that gross thing!" As you like but at a certain point its cheaper to accommodate these needs than criminalize them and incarcerate  them. Unless of course you make money off slave, I mean prisoner labor... (Edit) also you're very uninformed if you think no one can be hired to clean up needles, people often clean worse, you just need proper ppe 

[u/bannedbooks123 → u/jimthesquirrelking]

I also want to add that I knew someone who was a drug abuse counselor who had once been addicted to meth and living on the streets. He said getting arrested saved his life because it forced him to get sober. While he was in prison, his gf who was also homeless and addicted to drugs died of an overdose.

I went to his 4 year sobriety party where his mother broke down and cried, saying that she was relieved when he got arrested because she lost so many nights of sleep thinking of him on the streets and what might happen. She also couldn't do anything about it because he was an adult. She was so proud of who he became after. At least while he was in prison, he was alive and she knew where he was.

So, prison may not be the worst thing to happen to someone.

[u/Curious-Author-3140 → u/bannedbooks123]

Yes, the blessing to have help that restored the chance for a healthy fulfilling life! Our ability to successfully help those with so many of the life threatening illnesses that, not just the victim, but our communities struggle with has improved exponentially! Tech advances especially have been instrumental in ability to quantify the effectiveness of the science in real time. The value to his community and to the economy they bring back is much greater than the current costs of care, in taxed income alone, but in other measurable metrics as well.

We should make the investment, I can’t argue with the data, we know that. I just feel that in this challenging economy, with the national debt at breaking levels, it is fiscally imperative that we consider how much higher the cost of intervention in acute stages has than providing the basic services to prevent and mitigate the condition in the first place! Look up the statistical data and analysis of fiscal implications..