Unfortunately, these folks will just move along to the next camp.  It's unrealistic to think that the homeless will suddenly find the wherewithal to find a job, let alone a job that pays enough to afford housing, food, and the basics of a normal life.  Our leaders need to get this fact through their thick heads and start creating a camp or safe zone where these people can live and receive services such as health care, showers, toilets, and job placement assistance in an effort to enable their return to a normal life, whatever that is.  Yes, there are plenty of people who don't want to pay for this assistance and that it's up to the homeless to pull themselves out of their rut, but there are really no options.  If there were, we'd have figured them out years ago.  Pushing people who have nowhere to go out of one place only to have them move two blocks over does no one any good.   Homelessness isn't going to suddenly go away.  It can't be cured so it needs to be managed.

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