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OneLegUpAlexNews- The Flip Side of the Frozen Deaths in NYC , Not all Mamdani’s Fault 2-2-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, after the twelfth
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  Speaker 1: birthday of this podcast, which is a couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: we'll launch a new promo, but for now a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: My stepdad Victor Furman there to kick off February. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get to the interviews I did from Pinstripe Pride
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  Speaker 1: on the sports feature, but I'll only go Alex News.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to introduce you to a group that I
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  Speaker 1: get emails from every week called the Flip Side, And
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  Speaker 1: though they didn't sponsor this, I kind of want them
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  Speaker 1: to know, Hey, I've got an eye out on them.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you're a news junkie, educator, proactive community or family member,
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  Speaker 1: the Flip Side is for you, and I get their
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  Speaker 1: emails and they did a whole Sunday recap for the
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  Speaker 1: Weekend Review, which really got me intrigued to talk about them,
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  Speaker 1: because I of course love to do this one leg
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  Speaker 1: of Alex News feature and the Flip Side wee can
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  Speaker 1: review tells me both sides of the story, whether it
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  Speaker 1: be that fatal ice shooting in Minneapolis a week ago
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  Speaker 1: Saturday of Alex Prietti or Tom Homan going into uh
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  Speaker 1: Minneapolis trying and quell it. But there were some things
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know about that the flip side taught me,
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  Speaker 1: including our involvement with Yes affairs in China. This was interesting,
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  Speaker 1: China's military purge. This was from Thursday of last week.
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  Speaker 1: China's most senior general is under investigation, Chinese ministry said
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  Speaker 1: last Saturday, in the highest profile purge to date of
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  Speaker 1: senior military leadership. As Beijing modernizes its forces and tries
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  Speaker 1: to further project its mind, I have to believe the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration is keeping eye on this and all the
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  Speaker 1: military maneuvers of Xi's what they're calling military purge. But
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  Speaker 1: here you go, so you have the story from the
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  Speaker 1: left perspective and the right. From the left, they're saying
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  Speaker 1: China may never again have a moment when Washington is
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  Speaker 1: so reluctant to intervene on Taiwan's behalf, and they said
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  Speaker 1: a story from one of the news outlets. And on
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  Speaker 1: the right, it's considered a seismic shift in Beijing's power structure.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll we'll have to talk about this and deal
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  Speaker 1: with this. Because I do not want China to invade Taiwan.
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  Speaker 1: No one should want China to invade Taiwan, no one should,
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  Speaker 1: but the flip side, if you didn't subscribe to you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't know that China's undergoing military maneuvers that could lead
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  Speaker 1: to that, and we need to stop it. We need
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  Speaker 1: to stop it. While we're trying to get Greenland and
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  Speaker 1: try and run Venezuela. We also need to stop China
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  Speaker 1: from taking over Taiwan. But then this in Syria, there
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  Speaker 1: was a four day ceasefire earlier last week between the
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  Speaker 1: Syrian government and Kurdish forces which expired Saturday night and
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  Speaker 1: has been descended by fifteen days. And we are being
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  Speaker 1: encouraged by both sides to not abandon the Syrian Democratic Forces,
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  Speaker 1: the SDF, the us RELI upon the USDF in the
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  Speaker 1: battle against the Islamic State. But according to the left,
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  Speaker 1: Trump has embraced mister Sarah, who is the president right
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  Speaker 1: now of Syria. So there are some foreign affairs going
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  Speaker 1: on that in addition to the craziness here, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean craziness here, we need to keep an eye on
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of monitoring how we're doing overseas, as
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  Speaker 1: well as trying to keep the home front as calm
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  Speaker 1: as possible, even though it looks crazy right now. But
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  Speaker 1: there is no flip side to this, and I'm meant
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this, but that the freezing cold in
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  Speaker 1: New York. You can feel it every step you take
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  Speaker 1: and every movie made haha sting, but seriously, you could
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  Speaker 1: feel it in every step you take and every breath
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  Speaker 1: you take. And is Mumdannie to be blamed for the
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  Speaker 1: deaths of these homeless people? That's my question on one
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  Speaker 1: like at alex News, is this death? Are these deaths?
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  Speaker 1: Someone said fifteen on Mamdannie's hands? And I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: I say that I've seen the homeless outreach teams in
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  Speaker 1: the city fail at trying to bring the homeless from
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  Speaker 1: the even the subway cars, even the subway cars and
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  Speaker 1: the E line and all that the outreach program doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem enticing enough to go to a shelter where the
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  Speaker 1: homeless may not be safe. Do I agree with encampments. No,
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  Speaker 1: but I will defend Momdanni on this. You can only
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  Speaker 1: do so much to try and gets up it off
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  Speaker 1: the street. If they say no. I hate to say
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  Speaker 1: it's their choice, but it feels like their choice. You
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  Speaker 1: can offer every incentive you can try and push them
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  Speaker 1: off the streets. But if they don't want to go,
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  Speaker 1: then unfortunately, there will be consequences. I don't necessarily think
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  Speaker 1: this is mum Donnie's problem. This has been a problem
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  Speaker 1: even during the Nblazio days and maybe during Bloomberg, but
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  Speaker 1: more so when the outreach I felt failed during the
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  Speaker 1: Blasios era. Unless he was going to get photographs, then
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  Speaker 1: he cleared out the whole. But right now, right now, man,
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  Speaker 1: I just think Mum Donnie's not to blame for these
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  Speaker 1: deaths in the freezing call in New York. That's the
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  Speaker 1: flip side of it, because you can look at him
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  Speaker 1: and blame him and say it's his fault. But if
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  Speaker 1: these outreach programs aren't restructured, if these encampments aren't strategically
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  Speaker 1: taken out. Now, Adams did do that, and he felt
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  Speaker 1: he got a lot of flak for that. He was
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  Speaker 1: strong arming them in that point in that regard, But
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie, maybe he recognizes you can't just force someone
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  Speaker 1: off the street. And I'm not a big fanom of Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: We all know that. But I can't pin fifteen deaths
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  Speaker 1: on his watch. I just cannot. And that's where I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm taking the flip side because everybody's gonna
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  Speaker 1: blame the mayor and the administration, who's just a month
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  Speaker 1: old by the way as of yesterday. But I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't in all conscience blame Mom Donnie for this
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  Speaker 1: because I've experienced trying to help someone who's homeless. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you try and give them food and they say, no,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want that. Well, you're not gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: four course meal, so be thankful you got a damn
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  Speaker 1: sandwich or something like that. And that's where I come
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  Speaker 1: with this. I have work to try and help the homeless.
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  Speaker 1: I had to say it. I had an experience with
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  Speaker 1: someone who was looking for money and he took fifteen
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  Speaker 1: dollars from me. I went back to him and I said, no,
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  Speaker 1: I only wanted you to have five. He gave me
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  Speaker 1: the ten back. But they have choices, and you can
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  Speaker 1: force them all you want, but if they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go, then you can't really drag them off the streets.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot really drag them off the streets. So I
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  Speaker 1: cannot entirely blame Mumdanni for people's choices to stay in
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  Speaker 1: the freezing cold when they know the shelter isn't always
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  Speaker 1: the safest. That's where the onus is on, Mumdanni. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to build affordable housing and whatnot, then focus
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  Speaker 1: on improving the shelter system too, so that the homeless
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  Speaker 1: don't have to freeze to death. That's where I can
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  Speaker 1: blame it, not the fact that these people have died.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot pin that in all good conscience a mayor, Mumdanni,
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  Speaker 1: because I've been there seeing how the homeless outreach fail.
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  Speaker 1: They just fail because these people don't trust them. And
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  Speaker 1: I've seen from my own eyes when I give someone
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  Speaker 1: a sandwich, is that all you have? Or they don't
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  Speaker 1: even want it sometimes, And I'm gonna sound really awful,
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  Speaker 1: beggars can't be choosers. But in this case, when you
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  Speaker 1: choose to stay on the streets in New York in
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  Speaker 1: the freezing cold, below freezing temperatures, how is that mum
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  Speaker 1: Donnie's fault. How is that mum Donnie's fault? Because if
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  Speaker 1: he also tried to get rid of the encampments and
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  Speaker 1: push them in the shelters, you will give him the
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  Speaker 1: same flack as Adams Good. So it's not totally mum
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  Speaker 1: Donnie's fault. He's inheriting a screwed up shelter system. And
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  Speaker 1: that is not just Adams problem. This has been forever more.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the homeless outreach system should be better,
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  Speaker 1: should be better. But you know what, since we're still
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  Speaker 1: in the freezing cold and we're about halfway through the
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  Speaker 1: twelve days of the sub freezing, if you deceive a
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  Speaker 1: homeless in NYC, call three one one, And actually the
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  Speaker 1: DHS Joint Command Center works with existing homeless outreach and
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  Speaker 1: prevention programs or identify, engage and traditional homeless New yorkersy
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  Speaker 1: services and ultimately permanent housing. I'm gonna send this to you,
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  Speaker 1: but it's called street outreach, and it's a twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to seven three sixty five street outreach across all five
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  Speaker 1: boroughs for the immediate response, they write New Yorkers is
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  Speaker 1: the individuals they believe the homeless should contact three one
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  Speaker 1: on one or nine to one one if they appear
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  Speaker 1: to oppose and meet risk of themselves or others or
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  Speaker 1: their as criminal activity. Experience. Outreachieves from not for profit
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  Speaker 1: service providers Canvas the five boroughs twenty four hours, seven
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  Speaker 1: days a week, three five days a year as part
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  Speaker 1: of our citywide effort to identify and engage individuals experiencing
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  Speaker 1: on sheltered homelessness. They have a list of individuals who
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  Speaker 1: are known to the Joint community, confirmed to be existing
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  Speaker 1: on sheltered homelessness, and currently engaged by the Joint Committit Center.
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  Speaker 1: So that's very interesting that the DHS is here working
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  Speaker 1: in tandem to help clear out the homeless and to
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  Speaker 1: make sure they are housed. I did not know that,
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  Speaker 1: but depend this all on my When these outreach teams
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  Speaker 1: could go out and figure it out and try and
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  Speaker 1: get these people into a shelter, well hold on, well,
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  Speaker 1: then I would say it can't all be on mom, Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: The best they can do is outreach. If the homeless
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  Speaker 1: person says no, it's heartbreaking to say, but they're choosing
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  Speaker 1: to still stay out in the freezing cold, and you
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  Speaker 1: can't force someone who doesn't want to take a sandwich
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  Speaker 1: to be willing to be safe in a shelter that
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  Speaker 1: may not be safe. That's my flip side on the
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  Speaker 1: one like a Alex News feature,