[alephnerd]

Nevada did this to California a couple years ago actually [0][1]. That said, a number of major em cities such as New York do offer homeless people the choice to accept a lump sum and a ticket to the city of their choice IN RETURN for them being ineligible to homeless services in the source city [2][3].

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mental-patients/san-f...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-patients-dumping/neva...

[2] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-sued-over-program...

[3] - https://www.nyc.gov/site/hra/help/sota.page

[mamonster]

Wow. Thank you very much for the links, I guess I was completely misinformed with regards to this already being a policy for some local governments.

[js2]

The first time I heard of this was Atlanta dealing with its homeless population before the 1996 Olympics and I'm sure that wasn't the first time. It's been going on a long time:

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19960322&slug...

Atlanta also dealt with homelessness by criminalizing it and putting folks in jail:

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/01/us/as-olympics-approach-h...