Across the Keys, homeless get counted

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Across the Keys, homeless get counted

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BY GWEN FILOSA Citizen Staff
gfilosa@keysnews.com

Carmine Albreico said he fled Las Vegas last month, running away from a methamphetamine addiction that has left his body battered.

Warm and familiar from his time living here in the 1960s, Key West was his first and only destination as newly homeless. So Albreico plunked down his last $261 for a one-way Greyhound bus ticket to the Southernmost island city.

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Sad

Submitted on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 4:53pm by 666

It is sad that all we do to help these people is give them free food and free place to sleep. We then help them get more free support by applying for disability, food stamps and other aid. No push or requirement to work or mandatory job training. No way of making them into productive Citizens. Just handouts from The Government and well meaning people who feed their dependency. My guess is within 5 years the homeless population here will outnumber residents with homes. Helping with free assistance is the wrong way to go.

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Just like the gov't

Submitted on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 12:42pm by dalton2kw

Just like the Federal Govt. Keeps giving out all the freebies & those people don't have to do any work or even take a drug tests. Many of them are on their 5th year of handouts & will get at least 3 more years worth. That's why they are called 'takers'. If a time comes when, at the very least, community service is required for these freebies, they will no longer be 'takers'. Unfortunately, I don't forsee this in my lifetime.....

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Sad but true 666

Submitted on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 8:45am by trapper

our homeless population is spirailing out control. A few years ago it was 300 , now over a thousand. Plus , a good part of the KOTS residents have lived there for years.