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There’s Billions$$ of middle class bureaucrat and NGO incomes in homelessness.

Many cities have lost all economic purpose and seek homeless and migrants to justify their budgets, NY State hands them a $10,000 ATM card. The bill will be sent to DC, who will pay.

An appeal to the very people whose power and livelihood depend on the “crisis” is pathetic and more insane than the policy itself- which is evil but sane .

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Bullseye 🎯

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This is a useful study. I largely concur.

Re the community service requirement for entering the shelter, how about also having (legitimate) private employment count? One of the single most valuable steps the homeless can take is to start becoming self-supporting. Becoming self-responsible and productive is more useful than all the counseling or even job training in the world, and it requires the individual to be active in reversing his/her course. Community service is fine, but gainful employment better. So both.

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Yes. This is as good point and something we discussed. We should have included it

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yes, you should have. As well as public/private partnerships. Employers have a vested interest in employees and a good lesson could have been had from "company towns" (coal mines etc.) and their providing as part of compensation housing.

Every solution doesn't need to involve growing goverment.

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Amazing that a town of 8,000 people can't figure out how to solve homelessness and drug problems. America went from solving the impossibility of getting to other worlds to being unable to solve the obvious in its small towns, all within one lifetime. What does it say about our politics and political society that these social ills are now intractable and near-impossible to solve.

Great report, looks like it was a ton of effort.

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My fraternity chapter’s house was ransacked by a homeless man in Hillsdale, destroying lots of valuable personal belongings as well as fraternity artifacts. I was very sad when I heard, and I am glad yall are facing the issue

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Sigh. Good luck. Clearly author you are trying to do the right thing.

With the kind of money at play discussed to be diverted towards expanding jail for criminals , expect the interests involved to come after you- they will.

Good luck.

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It has already been a war. But someone needs to have this fight.

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This set of recommendations to curb homelessness and its ills could be applied to almost every city in America. These ideas are not new or innovative; they are common sense (albeit well-explained by Mr. Lippincott). City politicians fail their communities by being weak. Good people everywhere have to remove the cowards from office and elect those who possess this kind of clarity and fortitude.

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This is exactly right

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Jailing people is expensive, cruel, and does not appear to have much deterrent effect on the criminal class. We should consider following Singapore's lead and replace many jail sentences with public caning. This will give greater deterrent effect at far lower cost.

No doubt some Prog kangaroo court would try to prevent it; but nevertheless it's something that ought be tried.

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I support flogging and executions. I am a moderate centrist.

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