Quote Originally Posted by mwilbert View Post
I agree that many people don't want homeless people around, but I wouldn't think that the financial cost to the city is very high--what services are provided that are actually paid for by the city? This is an actual question, not rhetorical. There is some cost via EMS and police, but isn't the bulk of the social services stuff paid for by the state or the feds?

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.