Posted on 05/02/2019 6:00:31 AM PDT by simpson96
ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) A tent city is continuing to grow in Midtown Atlanta and one woman is trying to find a permanent solution to the problem.
Several transient people have put up tents along the 17th Street bridge and Northside Avenue in Midtown and it's becoming an eyesore.
Judy Byrd lives in a nearby neighborhood and she's gotten the attention of Fulton County Commissioner Natalie Hall.
"It's something that I wanted to make the county aware of and also wanted to see if any volunteers would participate in the community and it's just been amazing how much response I've gotten from the people that really want to help," Byrd told CBS46 News.
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It is so cool how they all have matching tents; makes for a neater neighborhood. It is almost like someone or group donated the tents?!!
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I can kind of get a homeless guy having the right to snooze on public land. But putting down a tent like that, which is akin to a mobile cabin? It is hard to envision any legal principle that legitimizes that.
Can they poop and pee on the street?
The cancer that is destroying formerly healthy cities such as San Francisco and Seattle started with just a few campsites such as this. If they are allowed to grow, the city begins to die.
Like something out of a Steinbeck novel. It’s a public health hazard and should not be put up with. Money? Put them in a heated warehouse away from the rest of us and give them just a little space inside. Vagrancy laws cover what the cops should do. They’re caught in the middle of this stupidity. I am not my brothers keeper. Not around needles anyway.
Was just there last week. The area is absolutely crawling with aggressive homeless people. Was recently in San Fran too... Atlanta’s homeless situation seems much more extreme. Atlanta truly feels like a third world country.
Sure, and they can vote too!
They can just dump it over the side of the bridge onto the expressway traffic below along with their used needles, trash, bottles, cans, etc.
They can just dump it over the side of the bridge onto the expressway traffic below along with their used needles, trash, bottles, cans, etc.
With gusto.
In the old days these people just died. Exposure or tuberculosis or sepsis or whatever. As a society we no longer let that aspect of nature take its course, and I am NOT saying we should, but these are not “unemployed” people. This is not a problem with the economy.
These are people with mental illness compounded by substance addictions. They cannot function in society, really, and even drug rehabilitation means a marginal and heavily supervised existence, with relapse very likely.
Perhaps they could be coerced to work in some fashion for their benefits, but not very productively, and really they need to be institutionalized, at enormous expense, with no one to foot the bill but the public.
That’s why nothing happens: no one wants to bite the bullet on that.
(1) I wonder if Atlanta will start busing their homeless to Columbus, GA again. They use to tell them they were going to jail or a one way bus ticket to Columbus. Columbus had to sue Atlanta.
(2) We don’t need more illegals here if we cannot even hose our own.
She might as well be the major of a city in Sierra Leone. Is there a major Dem city that isn’t a dump? No, here isn’t.
I’m glad I have no need or desire to visit the big cities.
They tried that in Cincinnati last Spring thru early Summer.
I have a suburban horse/chicken farm in the northeast corner of Cincinnati. And we are overwhelmed with raccoons and possums.
I was catching at least one a day with a high of four raccoons in a day in my live traps.
I would cart them all down to the tent city and let ‘em loose. And bring a few packs of peanut butter crackers to hand out.
The fact that the tent city became overwhelmed with raccoons made it onto Bill Cunningham’s radio show!
I get on 75N from Baker-Highland and those vagrants stand by idling on the on-ramp begging everyday.
You can note that some of them claim that territory too.
City of Atlanta & it’s so-called leadership is a joke!
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