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3. Texas should send all the homeless this summer to Anchorage. Want them off the streets? ...

Fri Jul 28, 2023, 11:44 PM

Jul 2023

... house them where they are. There is available housing stock.

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Anchorage mayor proposes sending homeless people to Los Angeles this winter [View all] BlueWaveNeverEnd Jul 2023 OP

Better yet...HOUSE THEM! AllyCat Jul 2023 #2

This LuvLoogie Jul 2023 #9

Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2023 #26

Welcome to DU. GP6971 Jul 2023 #27

Be nice if every state and city did this. jimfields33 Jul 2023 #18

What is the fascination with sending homeless to CA? edisdead Jul 2023 #4

The weather. That's the bottom line. jimfields33 Jul 2023 #19

Phoenix enid602 Jul 2023 #5

I guess that on average... Thunderbeast Jul 2023 #20

Except it does nothing about solving the root of the problem sakabatou Jul 2023 #6

True. former9thward Jul 2023 #11

Being homeless in SoCal is no picnic either Blues Heron Jul 2023 #7

+1 2naSalit Jul 2023 #8

I take it you haven't been to Compton or Inglewood. Initech Jul 2023 #12

Used to deliver gas there. 2naSalit Jul 2023 #14

No totally agree there! Initech Jul 2023 #15

because they die in the cold of Anchorage BlueWaveNeverEnd Jul 2023 #24

The mean streets of SoCal are deadly too. Blues Heron Jul 2023 #25

I get the idea, but we are not the state to send them to. Initech Jul 2023 #13

How about spending the money on providing housing thucythucy Jul 2023 #17

Another asshole Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2023 #21

Why not Florida or Texas? Emile Jul 2023 #22

Post removed Post removed Jul 2023 #28

Have a link GP6971 Jul 2023 #29

But if you are stranded in a bad place, Mopar151 Jul 2023 #30

They should go for it- Snooper9 Jul 2023 #31