Quote Originally Posted by detmich View Post
Exactly Mwilbert, that is why the city considers them jewels and does not want to give them up, because they bring money into the city from the feds and state. Obviously this is beyond the ability of some on this board to understand. The reasons the homeless are in Detroit are a) no one else is, b) the city lets them stay. This could be acknowledged and discussed, but it is much easier to use the homeless as a tool to rail against the surrounding region and blame those regions for Detroit's problems.
The behavior of homeless people and birds has a lot in common.

If you put out birdseed, you'll have a yard full of birds. What happens if you don't fill it one day? Do you wake up to dead birds all over? No, they simply go to where the food is.

Close the feeding stations in the city, and they would migrate out by themselves.