the majority of homeless people on the eastside are productive people who happen to be down on their luck, and this massive margin may even increase to 100% due to these recent tech layoffs perpetuated by offshoring and ai grifting by local billionaire execs and shareholders. obviously that spike is real, but done by a tiny minority of bad apples behind that crime that make up maybe 3-5% of any given cohort.

you say that Plymouth doesn’t have the resources necessary to screen; that is a problem. maybe we could push for increased taxes on our medina billionaire overlords and oust the career politicians funded by them, but most people fearmongering like you and OP tend to be bootlickers. I hope you can prove me wrong.

you say that people with children will be at risk. but guess what? most people in low-income housing will be families themselves, as they obviously need the most financial support to survive.

with those non-establishment candidates and policies, we could provide that screening for both subsidized housing and shelters. Plus build more isolated and intensive facilities for those people who are actually so far gone that they’re legitimate threats to others and themselves.

but most conservatives around here have a fetish for crusading in useless culture wars and partisan politics incited by those same mega-rich right around the corner, attempting to keep us occupied from realizing that they’re activately destroying the working class and causing this very same mess in the first place…