Every time I visit my daughter in Seattle, I see those homeless camps under the freeway and shake my head at what liberalism has wrought to a once great city.
Cleaning out the “Jungle” will only cause them to move somewhere else. The answer to the problem is to understand what needs to be done to move them from homelessness to self-sufficiency.
I learned from one troubled soul who told me about his time homeless while working with him. He said he had a wife and a child. It ended in divorce because of a drinking problem. The divorce required child support payments. He became homeless because he could not make the payments and pay rent. Next, he lost his job and he could not make child support payment and when he went to renew his driver’s license, they denied the renewal until he caught up on his child support. He never got control of his drinking problem and suffered major damage to his jaw, teeth and face due to a fight caused by his drinking. For this individual, the alcohol problem may have been the trigger point that could have been resolved by the professionals.
I have a cousin who was headed down the shoot due to alcohol. He got treatment and his problem is just a memory 35 years ago. That’s how it is done. Identify the problem and give others the job of fixing it.