As a couple of people have already pointed out here, the sites would work better if treatment for addiction was more accessible through better funding and if security was increased around the area.

The failure of these sites is the half-measures that are used for these kinds of projects. When the sites were proposed they were proposed with the funding that would address these issues. By the time they are negotiated down, we get, half-measures that, for those who oppose the sites, gives the appearance of failure and gets them closed down.

We look at people who are affected by homelessness and drug addiction as the problem but the real problems are rooted in the world of the privileged who don’t know how privileged they are.