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| 10/31/2007 12:54 PM |
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According to the map on this newspaper article the winter homeless shelter is being moved from across the street from M2i to across the street from Park Terrace. Think we're going to see another round of protests from a different set of neighbors?
Shelter will open later; site changed |
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Anonymous
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| 10/31/2007 1:33 PM |
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That's at least less populated but a bad trade for the Park Terrace people.
You know it's really hard to know what to do with this problem. Is there any hope that security guards or police and make this livable for people?
The city could come up with a lottery system that has every community in it, each year a name is drawn and they are the host for that winter. This would likely be more fair than the current system. |
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your new neighbor
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| 10/31/2007 2:53 PM |
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| I agree, as long as the the lottery is communities in the city of san diego. The city is all screwed up. The county isn't. Keeep your city issues away from me. |
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anon
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| 10/31/2007 3:12 PM |
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| Yeah, because every homeless person on the streets is originally from the City of San Diego.
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BottomFeeder
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| 10/31/2007 5:36 PM |
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| Maybe San Diego should be a lot less friendly to the homeless. Tough city ordinance to crack down on loitering and sleeping in the park would help. The transient would think twice before moving here from other states. |
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downtowner
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| 10/31/2007 8:41 PM |
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Or maybe we should get rid of the sunshine and fabulous year-round weather. Those things really attract those darn homeless.
Then again, maybe we should just house them, like they are doing with phenomenal results in cities like Philadelphia, San Francisco, DC, Portland, Seattle and New York. Apparently putting homeless people into homes has quite a dramatic effect on homelessness. And joking aside, it does far more to help stabilize these often very sick people than traditional treatment programs, or providing housing where they have to "follow the rules" or face losing their place to sleep. This highly successful, relatively new policy is called "Housing First".
Or, we could continue to ignore the problem, complain about it and perhaps pass laws to criminalize more of their behavior in an effort to clean up our streets.
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WWJD
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| 10/31/2007 9:09 PM |
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| already been kilt by some r-winger |
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BottomFeeder
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| 10/31/2007 10:45 PM |
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| Why should San Diego pay for all those out-of-state vagrants. The cities where they came from should provide them with housing. San Diego's open arm policy for the transients effectively relieve the responsibility of other cities to care for them. Enough is enough. |
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3rdGenerationSanDiegan
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| 11/01/2007 12:20 PM |
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| The shelter WAS in my neighborhood. For years and years it was next to the post office on Midway Drive. On Thursdays and Fridays the denizens would break into the condo's and apartment in the area. If you were fast enough you could walk over to Kobey's Swap Meet and buy your stuff back. |
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SF Treat
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| 11/01/2007 12:50 PM |
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Posted By n/a on 10/31/2007 8:41 PM
Then again, maybe we should just house them, like they are doing with phenomenal results in cities like Philadelphia, San Francisco, DC, Portland, Seattle and New York.
I've been to San Francisco many times and have seen their homeless problem. The only thing phenomenal is how bad it is.
The REAL solution to San Diego's homeless problem is to pass out flyers to all the bums about how great San Francisco is and all the free things they give their bums. |
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ZEUS
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| 11/01/2007 1:19 PM |
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| What would Jesus do? Look what happened to him. He got nailed. |
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anon
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| 11/01/2007 1:51 PM |
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| Jesus is our building engineer. I'll ask him waht he would do next time I see him. |
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downtowner
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| 11/01/2007 10:30 PM |
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BottomFeeder and SF Treat, you should think about some reality-based solutions to the chronic homeless problem. Check out this article at http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/06/24/first_things_first/?page=1 .
Housing First policies can actually reduce the amount of your precious tax money going to support homeless people (who use a massive amount of public resources when they're living on the street, from law enforcement costs and jail costs to emergency room visits and shelter care), and get them off the street and into housing at the same time. Would you believe that Housing First is embraced not just by some bleeding heart liberals, but also by the Bush Administration? |
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