Current events quiz 1.2

1. 13 total, 7 Republicans, 6 Democrats
2. Osoka, Nagoya, and Tokyo
3. 11 years
4. 10.46 yards
5. 25 locations

Long Response:
1. I haven't really seen more homeless people because I don't travel around much, but I've heard it's horrible, especially downtown. I feel that Austin is just improving homeless people's state of poverty instead of giving them opportunities to get out of it.

2. I definitely feel that eliminating the area's where homeless people can stay will get rid of homeless people in Austin, but they'll most likely just move somewhere else staying homeless. Austin needs to get homeless people who aren't disabled or mentally ill and need assistance to get jobs and pay for their own homes instead of just being given them or living wherever.

3. I feel that a possible answer to homelessness in Austin is to get those who can work to get jobs and ban certain areas for camping. Why would people not be poor or homeless if they are just given money from government programs or allowed to stay wherever they want for free? They will just want to not work. The way to get homeless people to not be homeless is to make them choose not to be. If they are given everything they need, they won't work for it and will just stay homeless.

4. The best way to serve both homeless and constituents is to get homeless people to become constituents. There are people who can't work and pay for a home and need special care, but a lot of homeless people choose to be because their lazy and don't wanna work. The goal of Austin shouldn't be to pay to make them not homeless, it should be to get them to work for not being homeless.