Recent comments in /f/vermont

TheTowerBard t1_j71xft1 wrote

Homeless people move around. That’s why when we discuss the issue in places like California and Florida, we often recognize that those are national issues, not just local issues there. Folks from all over the country migrate to warmer places in the winter. They also migrate back. They would often prefer to find a way to live in communities they are familiar with, hence someone from the northeast doing anything they can to stay in the northeast and not have to travel south every winter.

Anyway, all of this to say that we need to somehow get over being locked down by invisible man made lines in the ground and just help people. The homeless issues is a national one.

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Outrageous-Outside61 t1_j71wanv wrote

One thing I wish they would take a true census on is how many homeless came into the state for the hotel rooms. I’m not saying this to minimize the problems, but it irks me that in two hotels I know of that are part of the state program for homeless are sheltering a decent amount out of state homeless people. Just sucks that in an overtaxed and relatively poor state we are spending our tax money on other states problems (when I say problems I’m not referring to the homeless people themselves, but the underlying conditions that got them to that point)

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