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But if folks here really want downtown "cleaned up," perhaps they can ask themselves if they believe in the idea that we should be helping people before they fall into homelessness and addictions.
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^ of course you need to provide better supports to prevent people from living on the streets in the first place and offer better systems for when it occurs.
That doesn't mean that you don't also address the issue at hand either (vandalism, litter, tent cities, people living in bus shelters, etc.).
People still have the right to expect a relatively clean and orderly city - just as much the vulnerable should expect better support systems.
The current system seems to be everyone throwing up their hands, and hoping the next guy deals with it.