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SWBTATTReg

(24,031 posts)
Tue Jan 16, 2018, 01:05 PM Jan 2018

Any news of suburbs dumping homeless into large city limits?

Last edited Tue Jan 16, 2018, 01:42 PM - Edit history (1)

Several years back, there was an outcry when some of the homeless being discovered in downtown St. Louis City were dumped by outlying suburban police departments. Have anyone noticed this practice too? I remembered this when articles on 'Hospitals dumping patients' started coming out...

Is this a common occurrence? Just curious if this practice happens elsewhere...

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Any news of suburbs dumping homeless into large city limits? (Original Post) SWBTATTReg Jan 2018 OP
Please fix your title maxsolomon Jan 2018 #1
thanks for catching...I think anything could be looked at via internet but ... SWBTATTReg Jan 2018 #2
I work in the middle of one of America's most extreme Homeless Crises - Downtown Seattle maxsolomon Jan 2018 #3
Wow...Seattle even... SWBTATTReg Jan 2018 #4

SWBTATTReg

(24,031 posts)
2. thanks for catching...I think anything could be looked at via internet but ...
Tue Jan 16, 2018, 01:44 PM
Jan 2018

I don't want millions of finds, I wanted personal input from DUers...thanks

maxsolomon

(34,968 posts)
3. I work in the middle of one of America's most extreme Homeless Crises - Downtown Seattle
Tue Jan 16, 2018, 02:18 PM
Jan 2018

I have not heard of anything like what you're discussing.

I do know that, anecdotally, many of the homeless are from the peripheries of Seattle, and come into the city core for the services.

SWBTATTReg

(24,031 posts)
4. Wow...Seattle even...
Tue Jan 16, 2018, 02:25 PM
Jan 2018

I love Seattle...my sister and husband live there...unfortunately (or fortunately) the larger cities are able to provide services to the homeless and a lot of suburbs have a not in my backyard policy...there was a big outcry in St. Louis City when this forced deportation to St. Louis City happened...they claimed that it was due to the city having the resources to handle the homeless better than their localities, but they could have went about differently...

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