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Originally Posted by 1ajs
the shelters should be forced to clean and sanitize the area as its condition has a huge affect on the health of their clients and yes they call these people clients
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Shelters should focus on using their limited resources to providing shelter services. If they can spare their resources to clean up sidewalks and the 'area' great, but given how they're always seeking more funding and saying they don't have the resources to keep up with demand, I suspect that's unrealistic.
When you go to other cities, the City picks up garbage, cleans sidewalks, vacuums or sweeps sidewalks and either the City or the transit authority cleans and repairs transit shelters. I don't know why our City allows things to get so bad. I suspect they'll say they have limited funds and so can only pick up garbage every three weeks or so (that may be hyperbole - I'm not sure what the City's policies on this actually are). But maybe funds from other departments need to be reallocated if they're unable to clean the downtown.
I'm not sure what is in place right now, but perhaps some sort of fund should be established to help small businesses and/or property owners with the amount they have to pay to replace smashed windows.