Housing for the Homeless

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I receive a newsletter from the city periodically. In the latest issue they were praising the opening of a new facility that will house some of the homeless people in our area. I don't have a problem with helping out the homeless, but a recent problem within my own apartment complex leads me to think this is not such a good idea. Following Hurricane Katrina many cities decided to take in more of the homeless people and place them in affordable housing. Great idea. The plan went wrong, though, when they started placing many of these people in public housing(knocking a lot of people off the waiting lists that had been there for a long time). They placed quite a few in my apartment complex. It led to chaos because the majority of these people were drug-addicted and bent on creating havoc. There were even a couple of child molesters in the bunch. It took much more time than I thought necessary, but they finally got rid of most of these troublemakers. I know it isn't true for everyone, but there is a reason many of these people are homeless. They refuse to live by the standards that society demands that they do.