Last week the City of Tucson reported that it spent over a million dollars to clean up homeless sites. This got me to thinking and some readers will probably call this simplistic and naive, but here goes. I don't know the answer to this, but possibly would it be cheaper to place a couple of Porta potties and a dumpster at these sites. It would hopefully improve the sanitary conditions for the homeless, while also benefiting surrounding neighborhoods.
Unfortunately, there will always be homeless until we find solutions for affordable housing, drug and alcohol addiction, along with mental health issues. These are issues that every level of government should be addressing on a coordinated level. Would the annual cost of such a program be more than the million spent? Even if the cost was the same, the human benefit would be worth it. No one chooses to be homeless.
Fred DiNoto
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