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This is only partially true. There is no “policy” aim any city do do this.

What does happen is that charity groups like catholic churches or st vincent de paul will buy homeless and runaways one-way tickets, but only if they have a verifiable destination.




https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-ho...

has examples of several cities that do this, not just charity groups




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