How Do You Help Someone Who Refuses To Help Themselves When Help Is Offered....

@Dino11 what if they are living in wooded areas in the city and shitting it up literally and leaving trash strewn all over. Seriously this is happening in my city in many of the wooded areas. The city was bequeathed a wooded parcel of land within the city limits in the original part of the city. In order to make the land useable they had to remove 70 tons of feces, rotten food, Walmart shopping carts, clothing, mattresses and other junk. 70 TONS, that’s way more than many extreme hoarders have removed from their property including stuff that has to be discarded that’s outside their home. The city identified 20 people that were camping inside of those woods....they sent social workers to help them get signed up for housing. 3 people were immediately placed and 8 others were signed up for the waiting list. The other 9 refused help, including the social worker’s offer of getting them ID and birth certificates. Either drug addiction or mental illness being the root of the problem. The area has been cleaned up, tree branches trimmed so that no one can hide in it, and there are plans on turning it into a public park. The city spent $50,000 cleaning up this one spot this past month. That’s a big chunk out of the city budget and these cleanups are ongoing.