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Originally Posted by Sliver
I think it needs to go like this:
1. Try to get clean yourself using your own resources. That is, I'm not in favour of just snatching people off the streets because they yelled at a guy in South Centre Mall or jumped on a car once. How do we track these people to potentially establish either a pattern of behaviour or a one-off episode? Don't know, but we can figure that out.
2. If they can't get clean, institutionalize them.
3. Get clean while institutionalized.
4. Half-way house.
5. Low-cost housing/free housing with strings (i.e. stay clean).
So yes, shelter is a critical component of this, but providing shelter without first ensuring people are clean is just a recipe to concentrate troublesome people in one place and that will lead to more problems.
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Resources imply a certain level of material conditions, no?