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/mortalmonger]

This is hard to answer as homeless is not a good description. There are lots of types of homelessness and until we can talk about homelessness that way it’s not something we can solve. Here is a good example:

-a homeless veteran fighting mental health issues -a mother and toddler son fleeing domestic violence -an LGBTQIA teen kicked out by his family for being xxxxx -a drug addict -a man who lost his apartment and living in his car while working -a bipoler woman refusing to take her meds and hallucinating and paranoid -a sex offender that has done his time and can’t find housing due to being a sex offender

Literally there is no “one place” all these people should go…

Homeless is the state you are in because of some other problem or choice….until we speak of homelessness by discussing the causes of homelessness and how we can prevent or mitigate those causes we are not solving anything. It would be like a doctor giving the same cure to everyone in a hospital and then being perplexed why the insulin didnt heal all the asthma and cancer patients…..

[u/printershredder → u/mortalmonger]

How about rather than arguing about the causes of homelessness address the original question? Where to go? Demolish an abandoned building and the occupants go somewhere. In my city the homeless tents under freeway overpasses were bulldozed. So the former occupants got into their custom tour bus and decided to drive to Orlando for a week at Disneyland? NO THEY DID NOT!

They are poor/homeless and don't have a tour bus or a Toyota Camry. They have shopping carts, duffel bags, trash bags, and rolling luggage. And they walked from the freeway overpass where they were living to the street half a block from my home. A neighbor with kids call police when a naked guy (obviously a wack job) walked down the street.

So back to the original question: where should they go? My answer is to build dormitory hosing as cheaply as possible near high jobs of opportunity. Consider chicken-plucking plants and dairy farm where people are needed replacing deported workers. Setup a YMCA equivalent with free wifi, bathrooms, laundry, showers, basic health food, and a minimal clinic they can access from their dorm. Setup a cheap canteen and they only have to pay for healthy dorm food meals. Not every homeless person would go, but some people wanting a life restart would love to be able to save 90% of earnings.

Yes, all the problematic people make life in one of these dorms tough. Build housing in small geographically disbursed clusters. If they scream all night, let them be the founding member of the scream all night dorm. Let the domestic abuse escapees create their own dorms and run their own daycare with live video feed going to every parent. Etc.