You can fit a million doses of ******** inside a shoe box and it's odorless. You'll never stop it.

My buddy volunteered once a week at some hobo assistance thing for God knows what reason for a couple years and he said less than 5% could be even remotely helped or rehabilitated.

Libs will tell you it's a cost of living issue (while raising taxes) but that's utter nonsense.

make it easier to construct new homes, instead of needing paperwork for every little detail, making it really expensive to build new homes. Sadly a lot of politicians and people in local government make their money off real-estate so this will never happen.

men have no incentive to try because women are only giving it up to Chad these days. We need government mandated gfs.

The issue of homelessness isn’t really an issue of homelessness.. it’s an issue of drug addiction.


I don’t have the stats on hand, but here in Canada some whopppingly high % of homeless are addicted to heavy drugs such as heroin or crack and are in the situation they are in as a direct result of those drugs.

If you can find a solution to drug abuse then you will have fixed homelessness. Srs.

No real solution to the problem. You cannot force people to be sober and to be a working, healthy member of society, etc. Very small percent of the long term homeless population are in their right mind and sober and are in that spot due to the cost of housing.


You can have police make and/or enforce city ordinances that drive them out of a city. Which is pretty much the strategy to keep them out of places that don't want them.

- Its illegal to loiter on side-walks and in roadways in most places.
- Its illegal to panhandle (beg) in most places.
- Its illegal to consume alcohol in public in most places.
- Its illegal to possess narcotics and paraphernalia (In most places...)
-Add to those statutes that its illegal to give money to panhandlers and start arresting/fining people that give them anything so you start hooking/fining citizens that enable them.
-Add a bunch of strict regulations to any 'shelters' or 'diners' that house or feed them.
-Anytime a homeless is arrested all of his property except the clothes on his back becomes abandoned property on the side-walk/in the street so its dumpstered. Etc.

Have the police enforce all of those ^ with 0 tolerance. On their release from jail provide them a 1 way bus ticket to the nearly liberal city that caters to homeless.



Walla you've just solved homelessness in your city. Any homeless that do wander into your fair city will soon move along down the highway when nobody gives them anything and they get fukked with non-stop for every crime they commit.

Here's the problem though, often times especially in colder months homeless would welcome an arrest. They get a bed, shelter free food etc. For homeless in the winter commuting crime is a win win situation.

Seems to be addicts and mental illness including bipolar. Neither allow someone to function with society. It takes a unique individual

You really think there is a way to fix it? You can't make people hate doing drugs, actually want to work or improve themselves in any way. You can lead all the horses to water but they'll just roll out for another hit of H under the bridge.

There should be harsher punishment for violent homeless, and for repeated offending homeless.

"The homeless problem" will mean different things to different people. Sometimes it's high housing costs, sometimes it's mental health, sometimes it's medical costs bankrupting people. I live in the Bay Area, CA, and probably as is the case for any city in America, the problem is drug addicts.

No amount of assistance, shelters, low-cost housing, financial aid/UBI, or even caring, is going to solve these people's woes. This is why I propose doing 2 things:

1. Decriminalize all drugs, and release current prisoners held for drug possession. This is going to seem to contradict what I just said, but prisons are over-crowded, and many of those people would be functional outside of prison, even if they do drugs. The drug-addicts currently out on the street are not being charged for their constant crimes because we can't afford to jail/imprison them. So step #1 will be reallocating space in our prisons to the people causing problems - that will require freeing up space as we just can't afford infinite prison space for every degenerate.

2. Start considering drug addiction a mental health problem serious enough for involuntary commitment. These people are causing harm to themselves and society if they are homeless, and should be committed. This is going to shift drug addicts from prisons to homes where they can get help. There isn't much hope for the majority of people who would be committed, but it's better than sending them to prison, and it's better than letting them wreak havoc on anyone around them.

And where are they gonna build these homes? Half the problem is nobody wants these people around. NIMBYism kills a lot of projects or ties them up in legal battles. On top of that a lot of these drug rehab places are simply not that effective. It's an easy payday since insurance pays everything and the licensing isn't that strict. Company I used to work for would furnish a lot of these places, owner of one ODed in a parking lot.

Drugs/alcohol addiction are heavily tied with homelessness. I don't see how legalizing or decriminalization would help.

Can't blame people for not wanting dregs in their neighborhoods, they'd have to be moved to trailer parks in some bumfuk area

And where are they gonna build these homes? Half the problem is nobody wants these people around. NIMBYism kills a lot of projects or ties them up in legal battles. On top of that a lot of these drug rehab places are simply not that effective. It's an easy payday since insurance pays everything and the licensing isn't that strict. Company I used to work for would furnish a lot of these places, owner of one ODed in a parking lot.

Drugs/alcohol addiction are heavily tied with homelessness. I don't see how legalizing or decriminalization would help.

Can't blame people for not wanting dregs in their neighborhoods, they'd have to be moved to trailer parks in some bumfuk area

These drug addicts are already in people's neighborhoods, just not the suburbs. You're just outsourcing your problem to the city. That's not fair, or financially smart.

These murderers are already in people's neighborhoods, just not the suburbs. You're just outsourcing your problem to the city. That's not fair, or financially smart.

The problem shouldn't be how we eliminate homeless people (not all are bad) it should be how do we eliminate problem homeless people? The homeless people who are addicted to drugs, mentally ill (potentially violent) and out there committing crimes.

For drug addicts, we need to have harsher punishments for repeat convictions of drug use. I know this isn't popular because it goes against the whole "my body" thing, but for people running around naked in the streets high AF, they need more than one night in jail they won't remember and time served. Lets get them off the street for 6 months + at a time, increasing to years. Just like DUI, there should be the separate crime of being under the influence of drugs in public where you are causing a nuisance or endangering others.

For the mentally ill people, we need to bring back mental institutions. Simple. Especially people who have been placed on multiple WIC 5150 holds (mental evaluation holds), after say, 5, you should spend mandatory X amount of time in a mental institution.

For the criminals, we just need harsher punishments and longer jail/prison sentences. It shouldn't be about punishment per say, it should be about getting these people off of the street. My PD has arrested the same guy before twice in a day for the same crimes. They get out, and just do the same chit again that night, and then the next morning, because there's no punishments. Build more prisons. Let's fill those up.

Fixing these 3 groups will get rid of 90% ish of the problem homeless population people bitch about, leaving the "normal" functioning homeless people that don't really bother people left. The ones that are sleeping in their cars when they're not working to get back on their feet or the ones that just like the homeless lifestyle but aren't into crazy drug addictions, mentally unstable, or criminal activity.