Re: Homeless solutions
Now here is an issue you should run on. I’m sure you have heard the saying that to do the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity. The City keeps pushing the homeless out of this place and that place and seemingly surprised when they set up somewhere else or come right back. I admit I agreed with Caldwell and his “compassionate disruption”, but I think it is obvious that is not working. The homeless people need to be somewhere, they can’t just vanish into thin air.
The City’s program putting homeless into homes is OK, but the people being helped are not the ones defecating on Waikiki beach etc. The people being helped are not hard core homeless. And I am guessing that there are more people going homeless then are helped by this expensive program.
The government needs to take a cue from the homeless camp next to the boat harbor in Waianae. Give them someplace to be. Set up a section of the City/State parks where they can set up their tents. Set up porta potties, trash dumpsters and showers among other things. No large camps as that would be too much of a load on the neighborhood, many smaller camps are preferable.
The State can get Federal surplus material free of charge. I have seen some of the stuff they have from surplus shoes to tents, to clothing and much more. Plus, the Army knows how to set up camps with showers etc. and the stuff to do that comes up as surplus from time to time.
These camps can then be a place the various State and City organizations can access the homeless much easier than beating through the brush.
A few years ago, I was in the Boston area. I drove down to Rode Island, Cape Cod and back. I did not see one homeless person or camp. We need to find out what they are doing and apply it here.
Now here is an issue you should run on. I’m sure you have heard the saying that to do the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity. The City keeps pushing the homeless out of this place and that place and seemingly surprised when they set up somewhere else or come right back. I admit I agreed with Caldwell and his “compassionate disruption”, but I think it is obvious that is not working. The homeless people need to be somewhere, they can’t just vanish into thin air.
The City’s program putting homeless into homes is OK, but the people being helped are not the ones defecating on Waikiki beach etc. The people being helped are not hard core homeless. And I am guessing that there are more people going homeless then are helped by this expensive program.
The government needs to take a cue from the homeless camp next to the boat harbor in Waianae. Give them someplace to be. Set up a section of the City/State parks where they can set up their tents. Set up porta potties, trash dumpsters and showers among other things. No large camps as that would be too much of a load on the neighborhood, many smaller camps are preferable.
The State can get Federal surplus material free of charge. I have seen some of the stuff they have from surplus shoes to tents, to clothing and much more. Plus, the Army knows how to set up camps with showers etc. and the stuff to do that comes up as surplus from time to time.
These camps can then be a place the various State and City organizations can access the homeless much easier than beating through the brush.
A few years ago, I was in the Boston area. I drove down to Rode Island, Cape Cod and back. I did not see one homeless person or camp. We need to find out what they are doing and apply it here.
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