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Old Posted May 5, 2022, 12:44 PM
davequanbury davequanbury is offline
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Originally Posted by drew View Post
^ 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.
It's not an easy issue to simplify down.
The conundrum is that we can't criminalize homelessness, so anything like a vagrancy law or panhandling law is ineffective and inhumane. Also, now that the harm reduction lens is being used, sometimes it appears that police and others are being permissive rather than enforcing things. Lastly, litter is a problem coming from all levels of society, there is a huge clean up effort needed outside of downtown.

I don't know why the city doesn't clean up more often. Seems like the easiest part of the problem to deal with...
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