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Re:Housing First [pdf] by kaspern on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:19PM (#28408901)
FWIW, legally you can force them off the streets if you offer them housing:

https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/our-programs/advocac... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan_v._Carey

This is a legal judgement, not a moral one

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Re:Housing First [pdf] by actually_a_dog on Saturday September 04, 2021 @12:33AM (#28412098)
I read both your links, and I saw literally nothing about "forcing" anyone off the streets. What I did see was a lot about peoples' right to shelter in NYC, which does not imply that someone couldn't freely choose to live on the streets. In other words, nobody needs to live on the streets, but it doesn't look like anyone's necessarily prohibited from doing so, either.

Am I missing something?

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