Posted on 09/14/2019 4:19:16 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
SEATTLE — The solution is cheap and simple: As cities see their homeless populations grow, many are buying one-way bus tickets to send people to a more promising destination, where family or friends can help get them back on their feet.
San Francisco’s “Homeward Bound” program, started more than a decade ago when Gov. Gavin Newsom of California was the city’s mayor, transports hundreds of people a year. Smaller cities around the country — Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Medford, Ore., among them — have recently committed funding to the idea.
Sign Up For the Morning Briefing Newsletter And in Seattle this past week, a member of the King County Council proposed a major investment into the region’s busing efforts, fearing that the city was on the receiving end of homeless busing programs from too many other cities.
But do these transport programs actually help people find stable housing? For many of those offered a bus ticket, they do not.
In San Francisco, city officials checking on people in the month after busing them out of town found that while many had found a place to live, others were unreachable, missing, in jail or had already returned to homelessness. Within a year, the city found that one out of every eight bus ticket recipients had returned and sought services in San Francisco once again.
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If you want to do better than that, maybe try reopening the institutions for the crazy that the left closed down in the 1960s and 1970s.
The solution is cheap and simple: As cities see their homeless populations grow, many are buying one-way bus tickets to send people to a more promising destination, where family or friends can help get them back on their feet.
One aspect of this, is that many of these homeless have “burned their bridges” with family and friends who have already tried to help them. Their addictions or mental illness can make it impossible for well meaning family and friends to help them get back on their feet.
Theoretically, all of us can say, of course, we would let Uncle Ted or cousin Jenny stay in our spare room while they get their life in order. But if the abuse the privilege, by bringing drugs or drug dealers or strange men home, creating chaos in our household, then we will all have second thoughts. And in the worst case, kick them out.
7/8 still away after a year? Sounds like a raging success to me.
Of course, if every city does that, it’s just shuffling them around.
Giving them tickets out of town was the ages old solution starting in the 19th century.
Camel Harris would be glad to approach this as a humane way to end the plight, sell their organs to help pay for their cremation.
“...that many of these homeless have “burned their bridges” with family and friends who have already tried to help them....”
Been there, done that, got the scars to prove it.....NEVER again.
The point being that continuing to enable them in their filthy habits will not work, so try something else.
Given their death rate on the streets, being homeless is essentially a death sentence anyway.
My cousin came back from Vietnam a raging alcoholic and was homeless for quite a while. My son knows a couple of high school acquaintances living on the streets.
As much as I hate seeing bums ruin the public square all over the country and watching the make cities completely unlivable, “Euthansia” is rather harsh.
A big ol’ article like that and drugs aren’t mentioned once?! I live in central Phoenix, and the homeless problem here is DRUGS.
How about not attracting the homeless in the first place?
Murder? It’s been popular forever. Used to be called “The Final Solution”. I suppose you’ve heard of that?
Agreed. It can and does happen. There are two people in our extended family that I will not help, will not associate with at all. One is dangerously bipolar and refuses to take medication - which had put her on an even keel. But another family member convinced her to try natural remedies and now she is delusional to the point I literally would not open the door to her, and if I ran into her someplace I would not turn my back on her. That level of delusional. The other family member I’ve written off has shown herself to be a mean, petty, manipulative liar. She did some things a few years back that hurt some family - just playing a power game, because she could and she wanted everyone to know it. She’s not family anymore as far as I’m concerned. I’d help a complete stranger before I’d help her. I would not spit on the sidewalk to save her life.
This is already permitted under the Death With Dignity laws. If you get two physicians to declare that they have declined to the point where they cannot care for themselves and will not recover, then life-ending drugs can be administered.
My ex wife and my youngest son, 41 y/o are both nearly homeless living in flea bag motels. They just kinda bounce thru life. Their downfall and current problems all started with drugs.
“Theoretically, all of us can say, of course, we would let Uncle Ted or cousin Jenny stay in our spare room while they get their life in order.”
The key word there is “theoretically”. Nephew Jeremy gets the hollow end of my shotgun if he shows up here after getting out of prison, which he went into for the second time at age 37.
hey umgud: you should provide them with drugs.
Here in Houston is just as bad. Every corner. Every gas station. It’s like the zombie apocalypse. They all take drugs, and drink. It’s sad to see. People need to get a grip. Take control of their lives. Repent. And start at least trying. Or get a good kick in the rear.
Portland buses them to Seattle. Seattle buses thek to Portland.
so the same people crying about the treatment of illegals at the border are giving homeless Americans a one way ticket out of town...liberalism- a culture of hypocrisy...
This sounds like a reasonably successful program—far more successful than most other efforts by .gov.
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