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To: D. Long who wrote (45673)	5/20/2004 7:26:45 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793721

The resources available to the homeless through the existing social welfare system on top of these, like homeless shelters, soup kitchens, health care clinics, etc, are an INCENTIVE to be homeless.... It doesn't matter, IMO, if the non-ill take advantage, as long as it defunds the incentive-izing social welfare programs. I don't see how adding assisted living facilities to the above list of benefits "defunds" anything. The goal is to get these people off the street. If that means giving them a welfare handout they are already "entitled" to, then it is a net gain. If it means cities shifting Federal money to housing programs from shelters and soup kitchens and free street health care clinics and everything else, then you're on a path to trying to solve a problem, instead of perpetuating it. Sorry, but I don't get it. Yes, the people are off the street. Instead of shelters they're sleeping in facilities provided under this program. You're just substituting one support for another. You may have reduced the count of cardboard boxes in back alleys, but how does that solve the problem? I agree it's an esthetic improvement and the people are better off in facilities than in boxes, but the people are still on the dole, just drawing from a different account. And since the dole now offers better benefits, the incentive to become homeless is greater, not less. What am I missing here?