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Texas overall generally does well on homelessness because being homeless in Texas sucks and Greyhound bus tickets really aren't that expensive. They even give r

Texas overall generally does well on homelessness because being homeless in Texas sucks and Greyhound bus tickets really aren't that expensive. They even give release cons open bus tickets if they don't have anyone picking them up. It isn't weird to find out some guy who was caught sleeping in someone's basement in Seattle was just released from a Texas prison two weeks ago. If you want to solve your local homelessness problem, just make your city sucky to homeless in. Conversely, if you find yourself homeless, move to a city that is giving homes to homeless (housing first), and/or has the best social services. Without a residency system in place, any American can get social services in any city that is offering it, there is rarely any residency requirements (although there is something for HUD). For a city, if their homeless numbers go up, it can indicate that you are actually doing a good job, rather than a poor one. The only issue is that local resources being applied to a national problem without residency restrictions is not going to be sustainable for obvious reasons.

zer00eyz 3y ago
Houston spent years putting together a solid program that worked: https://www.governing.com/housing/how-houston-cut-its-homeless-population-by-nearly-two-thirds https://www.governing.com/housing/how-houston-cut-its-homele... or... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-houston-successfully-reduced-homelessness/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-houston-successfully-reduce... It's pretty much the same program that nordic countries have had for decades. And there aren't any bus tickets involved. > released from a Texas prison two weeks ago. Parole is common for more of them than not. Leaving the sate for Seattle would be a no no in may cases. You want to make this statement you have GOT to bring some receipts on it.
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago
  See https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/faq/pd.html https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/faq/pd.html > Can inmates be supervised in other states? Yes. Texas has an agreement with other states, the District of Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to send and receive inmates for supervision. It is called the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision. Inmates approved to reside in other states must obey the rules of both Texas and the supervising state. And > What is “gate money”? Gate money is $50.00 and a bus ticket provided to the released inmate on parole or mandatory supervision by the Correctional Institutions Division to help with transportation to the community to which they are being paroled to. They will receive an additional $50.00 upon reporting to their parole office. End quote Also, if you don’t have an address to parole out to, you simply don’t get parole and you are relaxed at the end of your sentence. These days the prisons want to get rid of you as quickly as possible, though, so they’ll make it work even if the only choice is to head to LA, SF, Portland, or Seattle.
  - zer00eyz 3y ago
    >> Inmates approved >> Gate money is $50.00 and a bus ticket provided to the released inmate on parole or mandatory supervision You have some deep fundamental misunderstanding of what parole is, and how it works. Statistics FY 2021 Number of Texas parolees supervised out-of-state: 2,646 Number of Texas probationers supervised out-of-state: 6,511 Number of parolees from other states supervised in Texas: 2,055 Number of probationers from other states supervised in Texas: 4,140 Interstate Compact processed 9,028 requests to transfer from Texas to other states. Interstate Compact processed 9,917 requests for transfer from other states to Texas. Source: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/divisions/pd/interstate_compact.html https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/divisions/pd/interstate_compact.h...

zer00eyz 3y ago

Houston spent years putting together a solid program that worked: https://www.governing.com/housing/how-houston-cut-its-homeless-population-by-nearly-two-thirds https://www.governing.com/housing/how-houston-cut-its-homele... or... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-houston-successfully-reduced-homelessness/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-houston-successfully-reduce... It's pretty much the same program that nordic countries have had for decades. And there aren't any bus tickets involved. > released from a Texas prison two weeks ago. Parole is common for more of them than not. Leaving the sate for Seattle would be a no no in may cases. You want to make this statement you have GOT to bring some receipts on it.

seanmcdirmid 3y ago
See https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/faq/pd.html https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/faq/pd.html > Can inmates be supervised in other states? Yes. Texas has an agreement with other states, the District of Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to send and receive inmates for supervision. It is called the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision. Inmates approved to reside in other states must obey the rules of both Texas and the supervising state. And > What is “gate money”? Gate money is $50.00 and a bus ticket provided to the released inmate on parole or mandatory supervision by the Correctional Institutions Division to help with transportation to the community to which they are being paroled to. They will receive an additional $50.00 upon reporting to their parole office. End quote Also, if you don’t have an address to parole out to, you simply don’t get parole and you are relaxed at the end of your sentence. These days the prisons want to get rid of you as quickly as possible, though, so they’ll make it work even if the only choice is to head to LA, SF, Portland, or Seattle.
- zer00eyz 3y ago
  >> Inmates approved >> Gate money is $50.00 and a bus ticket provided to the released inmate on parole or mandatory supervision You have some deep fundamental misunderstanding of what parole is, and how it works. Statistics FY 2021 Number of Texas parolees supervised out-of-state: 2,646 Number of Texas probationers supervised out-of-state: 6,511 Number of parolees from other states supervised in Texas: 2,055 Number of probationers from other states supervised in Texas: 4,140 Interstate Compact processed 9,028 requests to transfer from Texas to other states. Interstate Compact processed 9,917 requests for transfer from other states to Texas. Source: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/divisions/pd/interstate_compact.html https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/divisions/pd/interstate_compact.h...