This unfortunately is old news; we have been doing this since at least (to my knowledge) 2003.

Ran into this young pretty lady who lost custody of her kid and just came back from visiting her kid for a few weeks. It seems she got lucky and got a bus ticket to where her kid lived and visited until she got another bus ticket back to California.

As she explained you get x strikes (how many times you are picked up for being homeless) before they ship you off.

Are you suprised? why should you be. We expect churches to help out the homeless population ... Utah is stepping up as they found that it's cheaper to house the homeless than to pay for all the homeless programs ...

But it doesn't matter just like Fox News Anchors say; they don't want their tax dollars to pay for some stinking hippie smoking a joint.

As problematic as the Homeward Bound program may be (counting homeless that participate as "housed" is a bit optimistic), this article portrays it as if a homeless person walks in off the street, throws a dart at a map, and off they go. What the program is designed to do is to reunite people with their families by giving them transportation to (usually) their place of origin.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-expanding-p…

What Nevada did when they simply put their homeless on a bus to San Francisco and told'em they'd be taken care of is an entirely different matter.

http://allhomekc.org/wp-content/uploads/…

^this holds another piece of the puzzle. The unhoused people among us are overwhelmingly from WA state, mostly King County. See page 10. Only 9% became homeless out of state and have now ended up here. .09 * 8,552 = 767, which means I blame Boeing for whatever is not accounted by buses.

@3- the link in your post is broken. Could you please repost? Thanks.

"Poorer" areas? You can find Lower-Class humans in basically every city on Our Planet; what you CANNOT find is Universal Socialist Status . . . .

Sorry, this is bullshit. I had the unfortunate chance to be homeless several years back. I availed myself to the offerings of DESC. I got to spend many a fine morning with other homeless, in the DESC basement. Almost everyone is from another state, a huge amount from the south. Do not try to tell me that most of our homeless here are in-state, it simply is not true.

@1: the "Utah Story", again. Utah had a very specific program to house long-time chronic homeless. yes, they did it, but it wasn't THAT many, it took them 10 years, and they still have hundreds of chronic homeless.

going home to your family, if you can, is about the best plan.