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> Homeless shelters can also help by making it hard for them to continue their drug addictions. They do, and this is sometimes why homeless people avoid the sh
by danans 5y ago
> Homeless shelters can also help by making it hard for them to continue their drug addictions.
They do, and this is sometimes why homeless people avoid the shelters. You cannot hold someone in a shelter against their will.
- crooked-v 5y agoAlso, more than a few of those chronic drug addictions are self-medicating for other conditions that are only tangential to housing itself and aren't going to get any better if you take the drugs away without offering other support.
- foxpurple 5y agoThat’s why my suggestion is to offer them the choice to willingly use a shelter or go to jail. Homelessness and drug abuse can not be allowed to exist to keep public spaces safe.
- danans 5y ago> That’s why my suggestion is to offer them the choice to willingly use a shelter or go to jail You can't jail someone for not sheltering themselves. That would most probably violate their civil rights and would not survive a test in the courts.
- blindmute 5y agoYou can jail someone for camping in a park, though. If they want to go sleep and shamble in the woods, go for it. Not on the sidewalks.