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/[deleted] 28d ago

Trouble is the solutions aren’t popular with any loud constituency:

(1) Legalize housing: build more affordable housing, preferably close to the city center.

(2) Provide housing vouchers to people who qualify.

(3) Hire more police.

(4) Strictly enforce vagrancy laws.

(5) Build more public spaces and keep tents out

(6) Build shelters

(7) Build mental health and drug treatment centers.

(8) Allow institutionalization

(9) Mandate rehabilitation for drug crimes

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u/__SEV__ 28d ago

Good list, I would add : [10] stop advocating for cashless bail

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u/JoeStyles 28d ago

Except Raleigh doesn't have cashless bail but keep going

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u/__SEV__ 28d ago

Except dems in Durham and more broadly have uniformly been working to reduce bail so my point still stands.

Here is another one for you:

[11] Remove handgun laws preventing trustworthy citizens from carrying a handgun as a deterrent.

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u/Financial_Berry4545 28d ago

hey bud, NC has permitless open carry. Nice try tho

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u/__SEV__ 27d ago

I was referring to the permit-less concealed carry idea dems were melting down about a few weeks ago.

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u/JoeStyles 28d ago

Did you know that there's a Durham Reddit sub right and this isn't it

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u/__SEV__ 28d ago

We are talking about the failure of our soft on crime leadership to address safety and housing.

Democrat’s policy and world views are failing urban areas across the country. What I’m saying applies to Durham, Raleigh, DC and many other US cities. The dems are a DJT knee jerk reactionary mono-party.

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u/JoeStyles 28d ago

There it is!!! Its all the dems fault! 🤣🤣🤣

🤡🤡🤡

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u/__SEV__ 28d ago

Raleigh and Durham’s last Red mayors were in 2001. Posts like this are a result of late stage liberalism.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

DC crime is actually way down.

Crime is down nationwide.