Note the homeless shelter in the middle.
Note the homeless tent encampments 10 blocks from the homeless shelter.
Posted on 10/13/2022 2:08:19 AM PDT by Libloather
Oct. 12 - An ordinance to create a homeless encampment ban around temporary shelters and protected waters in Tacoma was passed by the City Council on a 6-3 vote Tuesday night.
The ordinance restricts homeless camps from being set up within 10 blocks of the city's temporary homeless shelters.
The implementation and enforcement of the ordinance will be determined by Neighborhood and Community Services and Tacoma Police Department, ahead of the Nov. 14 effective date.
Encampments now would be banned near Aspen Court, Tacoma Emergency Micro-Shelter Sites at 6th Avenue and Orchard Street, South 69th Street and Proctor Street, 60th Street and McKinley Avenue; the stability site at 1421 Puyallup Ave.; the mitigation sites at South 82nd Street and Pacific Avenue and 3561 Pacific Avenue, the RISE Center Emergency Stabilization Shelter, Altheimer Memorial Church of God in Christ, Bethlehem Baptist Church and Shiloh Baptist Church.
The ordinance also restricts encampments alongside rivers, waterways, creeks, streams and the shorelines of Puget Sound.
**SNIP**
"Encampments are not a safe and healthy place for anyone because they present such a health-and-safety issue," Hines said. "This policy is meant to address encampments and encampments that are propped up around places where we're serving the most vulnerable in our community, people who are trying to get off the streets and move on with their lives, people who have accepted services, people who have accepted the rules and expectations that are necessary for them to move on."
Some people in the council chamber erupted in yells of "Shame!" after the ordinance passed.
The ordinance will go into effect Nov. 14 to coordinate with the opening of a low barrier site at 35th and Pacific Avenue.
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Environmental control.
Call them what they are: Democrat Vote Harvesting Camps.
If you wanted to end the whole ‘game’, just pass a city camping ‘fee’ of $20 a night within the city limits. No ‘fee’? Your tent is confiscated, and you get seven days in the city jail. The whole game would dissolve in six weeks, and they’d move to another city.
As for the shelters....I’d only allow you into a shelter if you passed a mental/drug test.
That's the problem. Stupid liberals oblivious to the suffering they cause.
America's gotta go Sheriff Joe on these dope addict deadbeats. Give'm a place to sleep (a cot in a cage) and one meal a day (PBJ and water) until they get it together.
We need to reopen psychiatric hospitals.
That’s really it.
I do worry that we would end up with 50 million people institutionalized, but we need to start somewhere and starting with just getting the homeless of the street and into an institution would be the best place to start. But beyond that, most of society seems to be somewhat mentally ill. I’m serious.
A big #1!
So I guess 11 blocks away is fine.
I believe the number is more like 81 million....
+1
“Gotta find a way to ban RATS. Let’s go Brandon.”
And this is the real problem. Cause and effect. They created their own homeless problems.
Not for the homeless, but for the politicians who created the homeless.
The punishment for violating them is to be sentenced to live at politicians' houses.
Yep, but we won’t.
Miami and Houston do a good job at keeping the drug addicted mentally ill homeless numbers down. Other cities should follow their lead.
It would only be treating the symptoms and not curing the cause.
Why is everyone stereotyping the homeless as all drug addicted and mentally ill?
I have worked with the homeless most of my life and this is just not true at all.
Best way to silence the libs yelling “SHAME!” is to find the home address of each and every one of them then drop off ten of the collected homeless at their front yard. Belongings and all. Of course they will yell “SHAME!” again but for a completely different reason. Leftist kooks hate it when their hypocrisy is plainly on display.
Note the homeless shelter in the middle.
Note the homeless tent encampments 10 blocks from the homeless shelter.
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