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Does Columbia have enough resources for homeless people?
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I just realized that I lived in a town full of ostriches! I guess we didn't learn anything from California . So this is what's going to eventually happen from us letting this problem fester for decades. Drug and crime rate is going to go up exponentially not enough room in the local jail.
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Homelessness is more than just not having a place to live. Its a horrible feeling. Unless u've experienced it for urself, you'll never know ehat being homeless truly means
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Homelessness is a spectrum. We would have fewer unsheltered folks if we had more shelter beds and more affordable housing. There is literally no where for these folks to go right now, this week even. If requests to deliver a dumpster and handwashing stations, creek trash would have been a nonissue.
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Because we don't have enough help for our homeless. Not every person living on the streets has a drug addiction. Many are families. The cost for rent in Columbia is outrageous!!! No wonder we have families living in the woods and under bridges! Better get it together Columbia!!!
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MoDOT painted "NO TRESPASSING" signs on all the bridges. There are no homeless people living under bridges anymore.
I think we have a new mayor that doesn't like homeless people and wants to run them out of here. The reality of things are that if people would stop and think 90% of us are 1/2 checks from being there ourselves. Quit picking on the homeless and do something about the one's out there that want help.
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I've got an idea. Let's tax those, who work and strive to take care of themselves and their families, and give that tax money, to those who won't work.
Columbia has the resources; the homeless do not want to play by the rules in homeless shelters.
ReplyMore resources attract more homeless. Just ask San Fransisco. More resources = more homeless.
ReplyWe have tons of resources. People who choose to live in the camps, or otherwise not follow the rules to take advantage of these resources, are doing so by their own choice. City must not allow shootings, killings, theft, forest fires, environment trashed, etc. at these camps. Enforce the law.
ReplyThey won't stay in the tax payer shelters, they should be cleaning up the grounds that they polluted. instead of tax payers paying for it. they will continue to break rules/laws as long as there's no consequences...
ReplyWe have plenty of resources for homeless people is the thing is they need to use it the right way not the wrong way We need to get them off the streets because we are some of us are afraid at night and day if we get a little bit more resource source for them the house and work
ReplyYou can't help people who aren't willing to help themselves. Drugs, mental illness, etc are the problem, not enough 'free stuff' from the tax payer.
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