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In reply to the discussion: Trump pushing for major crackdown on homeless camps in California, with aides discussing moving resi [View all]lunasun
(21,646 posts)56. Good point just like the undocumented who used to fill out forms Now in 2020 unlikely
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Mark Mather: The main method is to go out to shelters and to the people who are providing services to the homeless in order to collect information about the homeless population. They also go out to designated street locations and try to count people who are living on the street. And for those who they dont identify in designated locations, they have places called Be Counted centers to try to get people to come in and fill out their form
https://earthsky.org/human-world/how-does-u-s-census-count-the-homeless-and-undocumented-immigrants
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Trump pushing for major crackdown on homeless camps in California, with aides discussing moving resi [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2019
OP
Hire them out ... to Republicans & their campaign donors ... forgot that part ... (nt)
mr_lebowski
Sep 2019
#71
So, is this his solution to hunger - replace food stamps with Soylent Green and also solve climate
RKP5637
Sep 2019
#16
Instead of building concentration camps for homeless people, how about offering housing subsidies???
SunSeeker
Sep 2019
#4
Exactly!!! It's really a stupid solution, but then again looking at who is proposing it
RKP5637
Sep 2019
#6
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges,
elleng
Sep 2019
#8
Is this the first step of fed concentration camps for homeless and to where it finally leads?
NotHardly
Sep 2019
#10
"unclear how they could accomplish this and what legal authority they would use"
jberryhill
Sep 2019
#20
He already has his concentration camps with cages for babies for $775 a day.
keithbvadu2
Sep 2019
#24
If conservatives still had any principles, they would be yelling "overreach" at the top of
Eugene
Sep 2019
#28
Good point just like the undocumented who used to fill out forms Now in 2020 unlikely
lunasun
Sep 2019
#56
Concentration camps in a red state nearby? Counted as population of Utah or Idaho?
StTimofEdenRoc
Sep 2019
#42
Being homeless in CA comes with free healthcare, free pet care, free mental healthcare...
displacedtexan
Sep 2019
#47
Homeless. Not just poor or underemployed. Here's just one source of services.
displacedtexan
Sep 2019
#62
The SF nonprofits you're citing don't cover the needs of SF's homeless, let alone all of CA.
SunSeeker
Sep 2019
#79
Duh. Yes, Hippie Hill. The hollow is in Austin, where I went to grad school.
displacedtexan
Sep 2019
#64