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Tulsa, OK, has one of the best homeless shelters in the US. The city leased a building across the street from the Salvation Army. The homeless eat, shower, and sleep at the "Sally". They then cross the street, where the city provides lockers, day room with TV, day laborer services, washers and dryers, mental health clinic.
I know this because I worked for the Salvation Army and talked to a homeless older man. He claimed to have travel around the country and had been to over 45 shelters.
In Montana there is a homeless shelter who feeds them deer, elk, and other wildlife. The meat is donated to them by hunters who only want to mount the heads. The state troopers also pick up road kill during the winter months and deliver the road kill to the shelter.
San Diego has a homeless shelter that was build on an old Navy site. Contaminated, so no one wanted to buy the property, it was donated to the Salvation Army which then got permission to build the shelter. There are signs posted that warn people of the contamination when entering the building.
Tales told to me by a Marine Viet Nam veteran and homeless for most of his life. He drove a car but the jobs he had he never had enough money to rent. So he chose to live at homeless shelters. He was a heavy smoker.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)There is a little-known Federal law that requires that surplus government property be used to house the homeless.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)I don't think it is required (unless I am reading it wrong) but it is a little-known and under-utilized regulation!
http://disposal.gsa.gov/PBC#homeless
Recursion
(56,582 posts)They realize permanent free housing is the simplest way to end homelessness.