>>>>>The point is to prove residency and citizenship. Personally, I think every citizen over 18 has the right to vote unless they are a convicted felon. That definitely includes the homeless. The trick is to prove residency so you vote only once in your district (and none other) but still get to vote.
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>>>>Bring the street cop to witness citing the guy for loitering repeatedly on the same street within the district. That's residency.
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>>>If we had decent services for the homeless, or better yet, no homeless, it wouldn't be an issue.
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>>Why can't they use those thousands of newbuild properties that aren't selling that we read about. The papers here where reporting last week on the resurrection of tent cities in the US which when there are empty homes seems shocking. And its not only a US problem we have plenty of empty newbuild housing here as well.
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>>Nick
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>Good question. An organization or the city or the state or someone would have to buy them from the builders who paid to build them but they haven't sold yet.
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>We don't have that in my area. I'm in one of the few locations where this is not an excess of housing and home values haven't fallen.

The worst falls in value in the UK (so far) have been in blocks if newbuild flats often in areas with little in the way of services. I feel sorry for the few people who have moved into some of these. It must be quite lonely with little sense of community.