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Originally Posted by Pulgasari
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oh wow, you guys are way more lenient
in AZ I don't know of any parks where homeless are legally allowed to camp, despite us not having enough shelter either. And businesses can trespass any homeless they want. That's usually where our homeless calls come from. We hate getting them because there's nothing we can do as social workers
Police will call us from someone's business, saying a homeless person has been living on the property and needs "shelter assistance". The only emergency shelter is CASS, and if you don't get there before 4pm, you're shit out of luck for the day, the welcome center closes @ 4. Not like getting there earlier is going to matter much. There's a few shuttles that come to take people from CASS to churches for shelter, but it's hardly anyone that gets in those. A bit more than that can get in overflow, and the rest which is most of them, get nothing
So we offer CASS, the one option, the homeless person says "Fuck that! I know CASS", and the cop gets frustrated at us because we weren't able to magically pull a shelter that doesn't exist out of our asses and tells the homeless person "well you can't stay right here". And the homeless person walks off, usually not far. So long as he's not on a business property, he's usually left alone. Sidewalks and parks are ok, just no tents/camping in parks
Hell even the park that I jog at sometimes has a few homeless sleeping on picnic benches or just on the grass. And my area is pretty nice