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Why don't cities gather their homeless and bus then far away?

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DCal430

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Seems to me it could be an effective way to remove the homeless problem in a city. Just take the homeless and buy them a bus or train ticket to another city far away. Seems simple.
 
DCal430 said:
Seems to me it could be an effective way to remove the homeless problem in a city. Just take the homeless and buy them a bus or train ticket to another city far away. Seems simple.
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They do! Atlanta was notorious for this in the 80s/90s when they were cleaning up downtown. They used to give one way bus tickets to the FL keys out like candy, many times it was "not optional"... Atlanta PD was known to also drive them several counties away and dump them. A lot of the shit that went on in Atlanta in the 80s is crazy.
 
DCal430 said:
Seems to me it could be an effective way to remove the homeless problem in a city. Just take the homeless and buy them a bus or train ticket to another city far away. Seems simple.
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So NYC sends theirs to Chicago, Chicago sends theirs to L.A., L.A. sends theirs to Miami and Miami sends theirs to NYC. Seems perfect, how could that possibly fail?
 
I've never been able to find any confirmation, but it was rumored once upon a time that Chicago sent a lot of people to Minneapolis because we have very generous welfare here and those bus rides are cheap and short.
 
Pay them to leave and point them to somewhere that has a more generous welfare system. It's a win-win. Well accept for the people in the community that the homeless end up. But they get the fruit of the seeds that they sow.
 
It's called section 8. They take people who would normally not be able to afford white, low crime, middle class neighborhoods and stick them there, charging them 20 bucks a month for rent. They lower property values and increase crime rates as a result.

It's mostly this reason I won't vote democrat... but I won't vote republican either.
 
stockwiz said:
It's called section 8. They take people who would normally not be able to afford white, low crime, middle class neighborhoods and stick them there, charging them 20 bucks a month for rent. They lower property values and increase crime rates as a result.

It's mostly this reason I won't vote democrat... but I won't vote republican either.
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So they commit less crime while living on the street?
 
stockwiz said:
It's called section 8. They take people who would normally not be able to afford white, low crime, middle class neighborhoods and stick them there, charging them 20 bucks a month for rent. They lower property values and increase crime rates as a result.

It's mostly this reason I won't vote democrat... but I won't vote republican either.
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I work with a lot of the developers of the "projects" and some ( small number) are actually done right in my opinion. Instead of going after as much government subsidy as they can and doing the bare minimum and creating a giant development that brings in hundreds of low income people into an area to create a pocket of crime and poverty that slowly drags down the area around it, they create a mixed use, mixed income property. A number of market level units mixed with commercial space and smaller amounts of low income units brings in businesses and jobs to serve the new residents as well as providing an environment where lower income families are brought into low crime middle class neighborhoods where they can acclimate or at least give their kids a chance to attend decent public schools and grow out of it.
 
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