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by toyg 2480 days ago
I live in Manchester, UK, and this hits the spot. Homeless people move here from less tolerant towns in Southern England, and we end up with a problem. The weather is more like Seattle than SF but pretty tolerable bar a couple of months - which is when all alarms go off and you get huge appeals to find places where to host them to avoid dozens of deaths.

I think of myself as a very progressive guy (son of communists and all) but this is not sustainable, it’s unfair to unload national problems on individual cities just because they are traditionally more compassionate, and it’s obviously unfair to the homeless who end up moving even further away from whatever small support network they have near home.

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It is unfair there are so many homeless. It did not used to be like this.