Re: Homeless solutions
This madness is never going to end until we elect officials that give a shit and have a brain, but what I saw the other nite proves the worst of the worst imaginable is the level Mayor Compassion is cruising along at. http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y&id=274997471
They're trumpeting the potential (temporary) housing of 100 people when there's over 10,000 without a home or desirable shelter on Oahu on any given day? The whole systemic agenda is devoid of humane considerations, is flat heartless, and economically it's fiscal shibai, a total dog and pony show, all smoke and mirrors, a song and a dance, all show and no go. Lies, and they don't care how obvious they are.
A far away Sand Island former hazardous materials dump in a barren weather extreme zone with no shelter (on proposed new asphalt pavement) and surrounded by a heavy industrial environment with no stores nearby at the end of a long and dangerous Access Road coming off Nimitz Hwy. and an already overly packed and stressed Waikiki/Airport bus line, is the latest brainchild of clueless political planners in flailing attempts to solve the homeless issue, expecting hundreds of zombified candidates to collect themselves, their stuff, their pets, and somehow go buy the required tent (nothing else allowed) and get to an unknown destination where they'll have to behave and do all the things they have fervently resisted forever. All while being constantly directed, questioned, segregated, rated, and the myriad things crazy people can't tolerate. No plans for the many 'worst case' individuals who actually make it there yet will be denied, fail the program, or merely stop short of the entrance and end up becoming new life-long Kalihi Kai dirt bag squatters. No matter, that's their plan, and they're sticking to it.
Wednesday evening at a Kalihi Kai auditorium a public forum sponsored by the City to further promote their ill conceived answers was childishly produced, clearly rushed out, and full of highly debatable points. Officials (including Whity-Chun Oakland?) could barely hide the banality of it all in their faces as they endlessly sold a bill full of bull and then floundered endlessly in the face of questioning by a concerned crowd. The more they talked in circles the more questions they caused. We heard Oakland say that (after the whole debacle is over a decade from now) the end goal didn't even include a permanent home for the few that may succeed in the program, in spite the grueling process expected of severely mentally and physically damaged clients or how negatively that would affect them. We heard no answers to what health agencies had been involved in the planning for that site for human habitation. It's all a bunch of litigation waiting to happen. But The City just got a conditional lease for the parcel from the BLNR to help ramrod it, with Dept. head Aila saying this is better than leaving them out on the streets. Well, no it's not, not when the whole exercise is doomed to failure from the start. But this is what $47 look's like as it circles the rim, we're watching the failure in real time.
This madness is never going to end until we elect officials that give a shit and have a brain, but what I saw the other nite proves the worst of the worst imaginable is the level Mayor Compassion is cruising along at. http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y&id=274997471
They're trumpeting the potential (temporary) housing of 100 people when there's over 10,000 without a home or desirable shelter on Oahu on any given day? The whole systemic agenda is devoid of humane considerations, is flat heartless, and economically it's fiscal shibai, a total dog and pony show, all smoke and mirrors, a song and a dance, all show and no go. Lies, and they don't care how obvious they are.
A far away Sand Island former hazardous materials dump in a barren weather extreme zone with no shelter (on proposed new asphalt pavement) and surrounded by a heavy industrial environment with no stores nearby at the end of a long and dangerous Access Road coming off Nimitz Hwy. and an already overly packed and stressed Waikiki/Airport bus line, is the latest brainchild of clueless political planners in flailing attempts to solve the homeless issue, expecting hundreds of zombified candidates to collect themselves, their stuff, their pets, and somehow go buy the required tent (nothing else allowed) and get to an unknown destination where they'll have to behave and do all the things they have fervently resisted forever. All while being constantly directed, questioned, segregated, rated, and the myriad things crazy people can't tolerate. No plans for the many 'worst case' individuals who actually make it there yet will be denied, fail the program, or merely stop short of the entrance and end up becoming new life-long Kalihi Kai dirt bag squatters. No matter, that's their plan, and they're sticking to it.
Wednesday evening at a Kalihi Kai auditorium a public forum sponsored by the City to further promote their ill conceived answers was childishly produced, clearly rushed out, and full of highly debatable points. Officials (including Whity-Chun Oakland?) could barely hide the banality of it all in their faces as they endlessly sold a bill full of bull and then floundered endlessly in the face of questioning by a concerned crowd. The more they talked in circles the more questions they caused. We heard Oakland say that (after the whole debacle is over a decade from now) the end goal didn't even include a permanent home for the few that may succeed in the program, in spite the grueling process expected of severely mentally and physically damaged clients or how negatively that would affect them. We heard no answers to what health agencies had been involved in the planning for that site for human habitation. It's all a bunch of litigation waiting to happen. But The City just got a conditional lease for the parcel from the BLNR to help ramrod it, with Dept. head Aila saying this is better than leaving them out on the streets. Well, no it's not, not when the whole exercise is doomed to failure from the start. But this is what $47 look's like as it circles the rim, we're watching the failure in real time.
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