Posted on 05/21/2016 2:59:51 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
SEATTLE, Wash. The city of Portland began a pilot program Thursday, to buy one-way bus tickets for homeless people who approach agency staff to say that they have family to stay with in another city. The pilot is set to be completed at the end of June.
On Thursday, the city paid for the first two bus tickets, with destinations of Seattle and Spokane.
Susan Salisbury, a spokesperson for Portlands 211 program, which is handling the pilot, said the agency staff members need to call the homeless persons family or friends in that other city, to verify that there is in fact a plan for housing. Without that verification, they will not buy the bus ticket.
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send ‘em to Barbara Boxer.
Camp Of The Saints redux. I rather like the idea of sending a flotilla of worthless parasitic human trash to some third world country. That would be justice for both sender and receiver.
Spokane is a terrible place to be homeless, particularly in the winter.
Every time I visit my daughter in Seattle, I see those homeless camps under the freeway and shake my head at what liberalism has wrought to a once great city.
The city of Seattle budgets $50 million a year for homeless “remediation” and in March they added another $50 million. The last week they are crying on the news that they don’t have enough money to train police officers that are needed, let alone the money to pay them. Are Liberals insane? YOU make the call.
I know a Kenyan Muslim and his family that have been stuck living in Washington DC in government housing for the past 8 years and we’d really love to see him and his family flown back to Kenya so he can stay with his half-brother in the hut he has there. Who’d like to join me send these people out of town?
Good. Both cities are leftist-infested hellholes. Let the leftist taxpayers of King County and Spokane County pay up for their new wards.
This would make for a great GoFundMe page. hehe
Cleaning out the “Jungle” will only cause them to move somewhere else. The answer to the problem is to understand what needs to be done to move them from homelessness to self-sufficiency.
I learned from one troubled soul who told me about his time homeless while working with him. He said he had a wife and a child. It ended in divorce because of a drinking problem. The divorce required child support payments. He became homeless because he could not make the payments and pay rent. Next, he lost his job and he could not make child support payment and when he went to renew his driver’s license, they denied the renewal until he caught up on his child support. He never got control of his drinking problem and suffered major damage to his jaw, teeth and face due to a fight caused by his drinking. For this individual, the alcohol problem may have been the trigger point that could have been resolved by the professionals.
I have a cousin who was headed down the shoot due to alcohol. He got treatment and his problem is just a memory 35 years ago. That’s how it is done. Identify the problem and give others the job of fixing it.
That opinion won’t fly here, you’re supposed to say that the solution is to petend homeless people aren’t human.
and, because they've always counted on rain, they don't put sprinkler systems in and when it gets dry, both Portland and Seattle look bad...and believe it or not, both Seattle and Portland have had extremely dry years in the last decade...
I truly believe that most of these chronic "homeless" don't want a regular job with regular hrs, and getting up and being active all day...
Send ‘em to Chicago, seems they make room for about 10-20 every weekend, anyway.
I agree. It is a spiritual sickness as well as a mental problem. The professionals should know how to fix them. If not, there should be research on how to do it, including drug therapy. These people are like cars going down the road with steering all out of whack.
Do you live near Seattle? Portland? If you do, I know what you mean.
I live and work in downtown Seattle, yeah.
And I agree with you.
Bull.
I am in the business.
The only person responsible for sobriety and recovery is the drunk
There are a myriad of programs to help homeless achieve sobriety and your friend did not take advantage of them.
he chose to stay drunk instead of sobering up.
You are so right. We often put the homeless in subsidized apartments. But since it takes part of their handout check, they bag the apartments to live rough and drink and drug.
This happens over and over
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