Florida could adopt new solution to homeless crisis: camps

[teach1st]

Florida could adopt new solution to homeless crisis: camps
Tampa Bay Times, 2/6/2024

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday endorsed a statewide strategy for dealing with homeless people that Republican lawmakers say is the first of its kind.

In short, put them in camps.

Legislators in the last week advanced bills that would require counties to ban homeless people from sleeping in public places and instead allow them to stay in designated camps with security, sanitation and access to behavioral health services.

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To Democratic lawmakers and most homeless advocates, it’s a clumsy and mean-spirited one-size-fits-all approach that will lead to more arrests of homeless people. It could also run counter to federal best practices, which encourage moving them into transitional or permanent housing.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/02/05/florida-could-adopt-cutting-edge-solution-homeless-crisis-camps/
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[Think. Again.]

1. I wonder if they realize...

....that this is the epitome of socialized housing?

Although I'm absolutely sure they have more sadistic results in mind.

[Tetrachloride]

2. True or false: The plan is better than the status quo.

The devil is in the details.

And what does the federal laws and programs have to say ?

Just beginning a conversation.

[ratchiweenie]

3. Somehow, given that it's Florida, I doubt they will spend the money to give them access to real mental health services.

Good mental health is not cheap.

[Firestorm49]

4. I can't imagine what could possibly go wrong.

[Irish_Dem]

5. They get security, sanitation, mental health services.

Isn't this a step in the right direction?

I know it's far from ideal and definitely has a downside but it's more than they have now.

And once many of them get appropriate mental health treatment therapy and medication they might start doing really well
and be able to leave the camp with a new start in life.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Anyone know of a way to invest in razor wire production? It must be booming with all the GOP demand.

[Chainfire]

7. The word "concentration" is missing in the story.

Out of sight, out of mind.

[lpbk2713]

8. Not a good idea.

Having them all in one place would make it too easy for the security personnel to bully and abuse the "guests'.
They get enough of that on the streets from law enforcement people.