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The “problem” has gotten worse and is not just in the big cities. It is going on everywhere. A lot of these people just want their freedom to “be”. Most of the cities just want them to leave. If you offer them services, they will have to want them or at least follow the minimum rules at a facility (like be sober) to stay there. Some just aren’t going to do it. Period. I speak as a recovering alcoholic and know this to be true. I don’t think municipalities want them dead, they just want them to be somewhere else. Do they have the right to push them out? Will be an interesting case to follow.
There is no "somewhere else" for them to go to, just a bunch of other places where people don't want them either. Seems like everywhere in America just wants to shuffle homeless people around without doing much (or often anything) to actually solve the problem.
There's nothing a city can realistically do except shuffle them around - providing assistance simply motivates more homeless people to arrive from other places until the assistance is exhausted and the city is left worse off, with less money and more homeless people.
What do you suggest?
Not criminalizing homelessness for starters.
The actual solution is to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place, but that would be "socialism" and therefore too unpopular to actually implement. But housing-first solutions seem to work great every time they're tried.
I hear your point but I am not sure how you would prevent people from becoming homeless. Like, how do you suggest implementing this? Seriously. (Trying to get beyond the easy platitudes and idealism you suggest.) Section 8 housing has been available in the US since 1937. Apparently that hasn’t worked. There is also the HUD Exchange:
https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/
UBI and/or a housing guarantee.
At a certain point it's the same thing. When the government makes it that hard to live, it's just going you die and solve the problem for them. Disability is the same way.