Run them out... where? Into the woods? Into other cities? This whole "just make homeless people go somewhere else" mindset is part of why things are screwed on the national level. It just results in money being set on fire to bus people around in giant circles.
To a place with cheaper cost of living. There shouldn't be any homeless people in California. It doesn't make economic sense. They will never be able to get back on their feet again.
Tons of homeless people gathering in any place that has a good social safety net and draining it ruins any city's ability to have a good social safety net. It punishes and ruins the cities that try to lead with compassion.
The motivation isn't 'economic sense', it's not dying when sleeping outside in a cold snap.
> Tons of homeless people gathering in any place that has a good social safety net
Maybe the answer here is to actually have a social safety net at the national level, instead of trying to shuffle people around in exactly the same way that hasn't accomplished anything useful since before the Dust Bowl.
> The motivation isn't 'economic sense', it's not dying when sleeping outside in a cold snap.
You keep misrepresenting the situation by dramatizing it. People sleep on the streets of San Francisco (one of the most expensive cities in the US) not because it's literally the only place in the country or even the state where they would not die in a cold snap. SF is brutally expensive, it's unreasonable to expect it to solve homelessness by housing people. It hasn't happened and it will never happen. Ever. We can spend $100B more on this next year, and we will just have more homeless people.
>Maybe the answer here is to actually have a social safety net at the national level, instead of trying to shuffle people around in exactly the same way that hasn't accomplished anything useful since before the Dust Bowl.
This is not a realistic goal, and it would still result in homeless people gathering in cities.
>The motivation isn't 'economic sense', it's not dying when sleeping outside in a cold snap.
There is an entire southern half of the country where that won't happen.
I've seen several interviews with opioid addicted homeless and they've said they prefer the street, because if they OD, someone will call 911. If they were in abandoned houses, they would just die there with no one to see them in trouble.
They are unwilling to run homeless people out of their cities. San Francisco has the same issues but drugs aren't legal there.