Posted on 01/24/2015 12:41:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Not just the restaurants. The area surrounding Munn, including Lake Mirror with the (cough)wonderful(cough) sculpture, was just on the verge of being gentrified and becoming a desirable location when this started. Now the only time worth going there is First Friday, when there are enough people to even the odds.
To paraphrase;
“Hey! I could have named you Ritchie Zuela”
Are there no Obamaviles in Mexico they can live in?
It’s effing’ Skid Row. I have a Jewish pal (well, they do own the fabric stores in the fashion district) and the were told literally by the district manager that the homeless can camp outside their stores and it’s in their “rights”. That’s why everyone gets out of there by 6 PM.
When I lived in St. Pete in the 80’s they were trying to rehabilitate the downtown area, but it was inundated with homeless. The homeless were a huge impediment to business because they agressivly solicited would-be customers who stayed away in droves. So, the police arrested them and took them to the booking center which is in the far north of the county. Then they’d “discover” that they had no cause to arrest them and they’d just let them go. The closest place to walk from there was Clearwater. When I left Clearwater was suing. But when I returned I’d have to say the St. Pete downtown is fully rejuvenated. I was told they had no homeless problem. Which, probably means they’re actively shooing them off, which I thought was illegal. (You can’t use any big city library as it’s a daytime homeless shelter.)
What is the equivalent of fun-employment for homelessness???
Fun-employment allows you to sit around all day with the kids, take trips, play with the dog...Imagine the fun you have in the obamaconomy when you don’t have to worry about house payments, taxes, or even cleaning the bathroom.
Austin has thousands of them. The former city council had the idea of building an RV park for them, but of course, no neighborhood wanted it nearby. That city council is no more, and the idea seems to have died for obvious reasons.
“...Some people claim that there’s Obama to blame,...”
I left there in 2006, visited for several days in 2012.
As I recall, the mayor, city manager, city council and country commission are, for the most part, the same bunch being recycled around and around. Like musical chairs.
I see Howard Wiggs finally got his turn at mayor last year. What a joke. He’s so full of it. As are they all.
Did you get rid of that idiot female police chief?
But I know, it’s the voter’s own damn fault.....
Here in Seattle they just did their annual homeless night out count (includes shelters, official tent cities, as well as unofficial encampments and people sleeping in doorways. It has been steadily rising over the years - but it was up 21% this year over last.
I’m just glad the economy under obama is so good - or there would be even more people homeless! /s
Ah for the days when there were VAGRANCY LAWS to take care of such problems. When Vagrancy laws were done away with the rifraf swarmed the local library to such an extent one floor was closed due to BED BUGS!
For the first time, free museums suddenly started charging a high admission to keep such rifraf out!
Only natural for the second Great Depression to have modern day Hoovervilles.
I know there are a couple of such encampments in NJ, which surprised me because of the weather; if I lost everything I’d head south on 95 until I was in a climate warm enough to sleep under a bridge year-round. While these aren’t in the best of areas (I believe one is in Lakewood and the other in Passaic), they are close enough to people of substance that I’m surprised they are tolerated.
Rural areas north of NYC have long been accused of giving vagrants one-way bus tickets to the city; they simply don’t have the resources to deal with them, and refuse to endanger their productive citizens by allowing them to linger...
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