If you want your shelter to be successful, you will have to rule out a decent chunk of homeless people including:
- those that want to use hard drugs while at the shelter. No shelter can allow illegal activity knowingly
- those that are not mentally stable enough to be around others. Creating a continual disturbance by being aggressive or even super loud will result in a permanent ban
- those that want to loiter at the shelter all day doing nothing. Shelters always have a goal of people becoming self-sufficient. They expect people to be attempting to locate work during the day or doing something productive. Longer transitional shelters will give people a grace period where they can stay including during the day for a few weeks, but they will assist people in locating low skill jobs and will ask for a small weekly rent payment eventually. Those that want to freeload forever will be kicked out eventually
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