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It's also to help prevent panhandling, vagrancy, public defecation, harassment, theft, and violence. 23rd St. stank of human reek before the pandemic, so removing enticements for them to sleep in the station was much needed.
And all of those are genuine concerns, but this:
How about we do better as a society and get these people homed?
Removing them from the station isn't solving the problem, it's kicking the can down the road, making it someone else's problem.
No we can't give them homes, think of the landlords. It's unfair to them if we just give homes away.
P.S. Tip your landlords