The more free stuff they give them, the more of them there will be. It is like giving candy to little kids. Word gets around and kids from all over everywhere will show up to get free candy. It is like Denver is competing with the other cities to see which city can have the most homeless people.
“It is like Denver is competing with the other cities to see which city can have the most homeless people.”
Back in the nineties, St. Pete, Fl. literally exported their homeless to Clearwater. They did this by arresting them, “discovering” they couldn’t hold them, and then simply letting them go from the booking facility...which was miles from St. Pete, but right next to Clearwater. There was a lawsuit, and I don’t know how that worked out. But the result is a renaissance in St. Pete for downtown businesses. (Oh, and the tax base they represent.)
I live near Tallahassee, which has a huge homeless population, thanks to liberal policies that encourage homelessness. The result is that Tallahassee is one of the most dangerous cities in Florida. This could have been stopped, but it is a reliable stalking horse for Democrats who run on solving the homelessness issue. Somehow the voters never realize that the issue only gets larger. That’s because the voters are government employees and academics. There is no industry to speak of in Tallahassee because the city actively discourages it. (Industry would mean diluting the voters with common people who want entirely different things than government workers and academics.)