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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s a red state blue state thing.

Red states (rural areas) deal with homelessness by buying the homeless bus tickets and sending them to metropolitan areas within blue states. Basically, red states create issues with homelessness because of their social policies, then externalize the consequences of those policies. This has been the case for decades. Before 2010 this was almost exclusively a red state issue. They would buy a homeless person a bus ticket to CA or NY and that was that. However, more recently some blue cities like Portland are trying the same strategy.

I thought this was common knowledge around homelessness in the US, that it was a blue state problem caused by red states.

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