Would you support a proposal where an abandoned US city in a warm climate is designated as a national homeless encampment; homeless are sent there, and left fully alone, allowed to build or modify shelters as they please without anybody tearing it down, no police, etc.?
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What happens when
1. people don't want to go, perks notwithstanding
2. of those that do, violence makes it the highest crime city in the world
3. of those that survive, health conditions go untreated and many die
4. of those that survive, the inevitable mass starvation kicks in
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This makes the assumption that all homeless people are fully functioning mentally. Sure many are, but also many aren't, concentrating them together would likely be a disaster.
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While obviously there is an element of luck to a greater or lesser degree, with most people there are reasons, or partial reasons they became homeless, it's a group naturally selected for traits that won't likely lend themselves well to building a peaceful urban utopia.
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When you say "Sent there," do you mean transported there if they want to go there, or forcibly sent there?
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This sounds like a lawless, hellish ghetto, even if you were to create it with the best of intentions. Wouldn't be a bad setting for a video game, though.
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Im not opposed to settlement but I think we owe our homeless population more than that. We can't care for them in the cities they are in, and while leaving them alone allows the freedom to live its also abandoning any care they might receive where they are (not that its much now)
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