basketball Bill Walton proposes moving homeless away from "civilized taxpayers" to "Sunbreak Ranch"

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15. My small Wisconsin city has a homeless problem & most people here have had enough.

As someone who retired from a Salvation Army homeless shelter, I don't believe we should criminalize homelessness but I have no problem whatsoever in criminalizing the homeless criminals, the ones who use their homelessness as a cover for committing crimes. Yes, they're a minority, but they give all homeless people a bad name.

Last winter our mayor put up the homeless in a local motel because his pockets were full of federal money to do it. We had homeless come from the other side of the state to be housed for the winter. The motel incurred $60,000 worth of damage last winter and said no-thanks to the homeless staying there this winter. But then there was no federal money to put them up in a motel this winter so they're wandering around wearing big backpacks.

There is no single answer for helping the homeless, but alienating the non-homeless in a community is no answer either and actually makes the plight of the homeless worse there.