r/raleigh • u/Unusual-Horse-7709 • 28d ago

Question/Recommendation Anyone else live very close to a large homeless camp?

I hope this post doesn't get too controversial, but it's getting to a point where I no longer want to work in my garden when I'm home alone. More people have been approaching our home lately. Me, my partner, and even his mom on separate occasions have been asked for things. We've had multiple things stolen, mostly small, but with kids things get left outside.

Do you have a homeless camp within a block or two of your home, and if so, how do you deal with it?

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u/tzulover 28d ago

Yeah you’re absolutely right. They do it because they live for heroin or meth. That is the most important thing and just about the only thing that will make a person live like that.

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u/Shy_Limp_Dick 28d ago edited 28d ago

Well I mean the stats of people on heroin that started on prescribed medication is crazy high. Above 70 percent in some cases. These pharma companies ravaged America 10 years ago with little repercussions, and with no affordable health care I don't see people getting the help they actually need.

But yeah fuck the homeless it's always their fault

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u/D0UB1EA Cheerwine 28d ago

People don't throw away their lives when there's still hope.

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u/Strong_Landscape_333 27d ago

Most people do their drugs in a house or an apartment

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u/nunyabizz62 28d ago

🤡

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u/tzulover 28d ago

You know what you should do? You should go out there and give them money and food and clothes and offer to bring them job applications. I’m sure you’d be welcomed with open arms. And when the weather is shit, you should go get a big bus and bring them into your home. They’re harmless people just down on their luck because of capitalism and job loss right?

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u/Cavatica83 28d ago

yes this is actually it

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u/bpvanhorn 27d ago

I've done that occasionally - invited people inside to have food and a shower.

Not saying I'd invite every struggling homeless person into my home, but, I also wouldn't invite everyone who rents an apartment into my home, or everyone who owns their home.

People are people.

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u/nunyabizz62 28d ago

Time for you to go.

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