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Columbia has the resources; the homeless do not want to play by the rules in homeless shelters.
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More resources attract more homeless. Just ask San Fransisco. More resources = more homeless.
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They 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...
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We 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
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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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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.
Good grief...give her a chance. She's been in office 3months!! Social media has given the public a huge platform to complain.....and thats just about all they do.
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You can't keep giving to people without making them responsible. Everyone should have drug tests. Everyone should have to "give back" in some way. Either by getting a job, or volunteering to the community.
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Only solves a portion of the real issue of mental health and alcohol and drug issues. Plus there is the concern that an influx of more homeless flooding up from the California, to get free services they are not getting there.
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you must fix policy, not throw money at it. When you decriminalize hard drugs and sleeping on streets and let hard criminals out of jail it all adds up.
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Oregon keeps throwing good money after bad, will not help. Recriminalize drugs , fund and respect police and how about having the homeless work..keep their camps clean, parks, other civic projects, require recurring drug tests.
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Throwing good money after bad. Bring back crimalization of drugs, fund and respect for police, have the homeless work even if just cleaning their own camps, parks, etc, drug tests on a regular basis.
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Tina Kotak needs to criminalize hard drugs and work on mental health that's causing homelessness and build more homeless shelters
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