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Tulsa leaders look to Denver for ideas on how to end homelessness
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<blockquote data-quote="Gideon" data-source="post: 3876703" data-attributes="member: 7898"><p>The first step in ending homelessness is to stop pretending that their problem is merely not having a structure to live in. People who experience major life crises (loss of home or family due to disaster, job loss, other emergencies) tend to utilize the programs and help available to them and get out of that situation quickly.</p><p></p><p>Reality is that "homeless" population that we all think of when we hear the term is 99% addicts and mental health cases who don't want to be treated.</p><p></p><p>We closed the institutions, we stopped committing people to them involuntarily. We got a bunch of open-air drug dens in exchange.</p><p></p><p>And he's right, it is simply a condition that they're in, but they're in it because progressive city governments won't round them up and make them square themselves away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gideon, post: 3876703, member: 7898"] The first step in ending homelessness is to stop pretending that their problem is merely not having a structure to live in. People who experience major life crises (loss of home or family due to disaster, job loss, other emergencies) tend to utilize the programs and help available to them and get out of that situation quickly. Reality is that "homeless" population that we all think of when we hear the term is 99% addicts and mental health cases who don't want to be treated. We closed the institutions, we stopped committing people to them involuntarily. We got a bunch of open-air drug dens in exchange. And he's right, it is simply a condition that they're in, but they're in it because progressive city governments won't round them up and make them square themselves away. [/QUOTE]
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