Homeless population given one-way tickets to leave town. Animated map, 2011 to 2017

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I taken a long bus ride before (and regretted it), but these buses are slow AF!!!

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[–]sodasplash 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

In these scenarios, the homeless are picking their own destination, am I right?

Obviously, Los Angeles was a major destination. I didn’t also know that it was a major busser. Interesting (though not entirely surprising) to note that Atlanta and Orlando were also major destinations.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

In these scenarios, the homeless are picking their own destination, am I right?

No. They're given a bus ticket and told goodbye.

Just like many in mental health facilities, they're just shipped around when there's overflow

[–]Snow 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

They can ignore the bus ticket and the goodbye, right?

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I'm not sure. It probably depends on circumstance.

[–]Snow 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

What is "depends on circumstance"? You mean they are forced to move?

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Some are, yes. Or the homeless shelter feeding them will cease giving them food unless they take the ticket to another homeless shelter on the other side of the country.

The patients in mental health facilities that are shipped in this same way, but of them, they cannot say no. For them, it is forced.

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh shit , such a humanitarian crisis.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah it's pretty bad. But no one really cares because there's already 3 million people in prison in the US. People are treated like cattle in the US

[–]Snow 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No one really cares? Such a nation that pretend to be civil.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are some people who care, but they've been meticulously boxed out for decades now, and many have simply given up