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So the rough sleepers I see are the people whose city it was - people with jobs and households, relationships and support networks. They got renewal offers they couldn’t sign, and had nowhere to go / no money to relocate when their leases expired.

Jesus. For like $3,000 I can buy someone a plane ticket to a more reasonable market and a few weeks of temporary accommodation there. That’s all they would need to have permanent normal lives again, and our government is somehow not doing this? Who even cares, if this is real I’ll do it myself starting tomorrow.

Or could it be that our social services agencies are not actually stupid, and the homeless population has extensive special needs that are incompatible with the modern world for deep-seated reasons unlikely to change this century?