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global1

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1. It Maybe Solves The Immediate Need - But Does Little To Solve The Real Problem....

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 01:50 PM

Sep 2017

the 'homeless problem'. There's a cost to continually sanitizing streets and sidewalks and placing handwashing stations all over the city and staging mass vaccination events and putting foot teams of nurses on the streets.

Wouldn't it make more sense to provide adequate housing for the homeless and provide them with opportunities for them to climb out of their homelessness/hopelessness.

That is the right thing to do.

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San Diego begins power-washing streets with bleach - Hepatitis A [View all] underpants Sep 2017 OP

It Maybe Solves The Immediate Need - But Does Little To Solve The Real Problem.... global1 Sep 2017 #1

Or at a minimum restrooms! n//t FreeState Sep 2017 #3

The real problem is mental illness and drug abuse Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2017 #5

They need toilets and doggy bags in addition to those washing stations FreeState Sep 2017 #2

Charming. linuxman Sep 2017 #4