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unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

So what happens if you try to sleep outside? Do the cops pick you up and bring you to a shelter where they provide a bed, meals, and a roommate named Bubba who thinks you’re purdy?

Conservatives are so short sighted - this is just giving handouts with extra hands and limited humanity.

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jonne@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s probably exactly what happens. Or they get a bus ticket to the nearest big city that does have some services, after which conservatives can rail about how the city has become a hellhole that’s full of homeless people.

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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  AAAAAHHHHH!!! Stop being factually correct, but completely wrong!!!
  
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- DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Did you read the article? The actual details of the program are pretty far from what you say here. Don’t have time to bullet point at the moment but please trust me and just take a full look. As someone with deep personal experience around this issue, their method might be a genuine answer to the problem, when properly scaled. Not the first time a plan like theirs has been tried either; Olympia, WA has a similar program for direct outreach.
  
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  - exanime@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Did you?
    
    They spent almost $3 million in helping 37 people in 2 years (that’s $81,000 a pop) with very vague “getting them help”. Very much looks like most of what they do is ship them to out of county
    
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    DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think you’re being intentionally obtuse. The article is anything but vague. Are they supposed to name the exact agencies and businesses involved, or can we reasonably assume that Laydon is referring to state funded assistance? Here’s some select bits of the article since you don’t want to read.
    
    Douglas County had created a team of experts, known as the “Homeless Engagement, Assistance and Resource Team," to help tackle the issue. The HEART team, as county officials call it, is made up of experts in behavioral health and who are deployed in branded vehicles to help people living on the streets.
    
    Here’s how the county handles it. When a report is made about a panhandler or a homeless person, a HEART vehicle is deployed to the area and make an assessment.
    
    Laydon called Douglas County’s approach “housing plus,” which, he said, is a balanced approach to “trauma-informed practices.”
    
    “For us,” Laydon added, “‘housing plus’ means wraparound. So, it is housing, but it is also food, shelter, job counseling, mental health counseling. It’s treating those substance abuse issues that we know often come hand in hand with a lot of the issues that the unhoused face.”
    
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  - jonne@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Since HEART has launched, the county has engaged with roughly 215 people on the street, according to the commissioner.
    
    So in 2 years they spent $3 million dollars to “help” 215 people. And the article is very vague and full of euphemisms that make me suspect they’re just pushing them out to Denver.
    
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    exanime@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    engaged with roughly 215 people on the street
    
    Key word being “engaged”, later the slip in there that 80% end up not getting “helped”
    
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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The point isn’t to get rid of homelessness, but to get rid of the homeless within their communities.

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PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Wait till you read about “crime free housing”

crime-free-association.org/about_crime_free.htm

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