Posted on 06/15/2025 12:11:07 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Center Square) – A nonprofit is in line to get McClean County tax dollars and private donations to build 50 cabin tiny homes for homeless individuals.
Critics say similar projects haven't resulted in a decline in homelessness. At a recent City Council meeting, Bloomington city council member Sheila Montney pointed to data from Denver and Seattle, cities that have implemented similar low-barrier housing models.
“The outcomes from Denver are significantly concerning to me,” she said, noting that 19 residents of micro-communities there had died, 258 returned to homelessness, 61 were jailed, and 105 had unknown outcomes, statistics she described as “generally negative.”
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The big problem with these sort of things is you target the WRONG population. You never go after the people that want to have a “normal” life, you force people that don’t share your value systems into your value system.
It will fail.
Some people like their drugs and booze. Until they hit rock bottom or die they will not change.
Isolate them from society and supply them with what they want so there is no need for crime. This may sound like I’m writing them off, well I am. We provide for their needs and when they tire of the lifestyle then we can help re-integrate them into our society. Those that break laws will be isolated from everybody, including each other.
In the interim, our streets and neighborhoods will be safe.
The selfish and weak willed will be isolated from the “normal” society.
One individuals broken life is a good price to pay for the health and welfare of several innocent people.
“electricity”
There are solar recharge lights. I have one by my mailbox to light up my driveway.
I think they ment illegal aliens.
I think they ment illegal aliens.
“Cook food? Buy food?”
In California EBT cards can be used to buy fast food.
“if you subsidize the homeless, you’ll get MORE homeless”
If you give them $500,000 apartments, you’ll have them lining streets with tents.
In 1875, brownstones on Fifth Avenue didn’t have electricity.
“solid waste pickup”
Large apartment complexes use dumpsters.
Its not that they want to be homeless. Its that they want to have no responsibilities.
Take care of the landscaping to be clean & green? Take care of roof & foundation & structure & exterior? Take care of garbage, sewers & sewage, and utility lines on the exterior or underneath? Take care of framing, wirings, utility lines, drywall, floors, tiles, and interiors? Pay for electric, gas, water, sewer, trash, and other utilities? Keep appliances in good condition? Be respectful neighbors with appropriate decibel levels on the inside and outside? Proper maintenance and care of vehicles parked there, including 18 wheelers, boats, RVs, tractors, cranes, busses, TEU containers for cargo ships, 3 wheelers, mining equipment, spare parts for vehicles like old batteries & flat tires, old broken construction tools & oil refining tools & supplies like screwdrivers, axes, drills, saws, pipes, open containers of chemicals,etc and making sure that the neighborhood toddlers stay safe with all these items that may be collected on these properties? Ensuring that their airbnb & vrbo guests & others who stay or visit are responsible?
These types of responsibilities aren’t wanted by the Homeless.
Small apartment projects are helping in many areas. But we need more.
They will be trashed in short time.
For decades, no one on Sesame Street ever helped him move from a garbage can to a better place.
Maybe thats why he was grouchy.
>Give them mini-homes, which turn into Hobbit crack houses
Early English versions don’t refer to the road to hell or suggest that such a road was paved, but simply state that hell was filled with good intentions. In more recent times there is always a mention of paving. This adaptation may have been influenced by Ecclesiasticus 21:10:
The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.
The person who made the ‘paved’ version popular appears to have been James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.,1791.
During that era, WPA was referred to as “We Poke Along”.
there is no solution to “homelessness” because the vast majority of the bums DON’T want to live in house or from drug addiction or insanity are incapable of living anywhere other than a pile of newspaper. It’s not the lack of housing. It’s a total lack of willingness to accept the lifestyle of having any permanent dwelling.
The majority of them are unwilling or unable to work.
What about sanitation at the tiny homes. Where do their residents bathe and perform their bodily functions?
It was. But folks had a sense of worth. Some of the older parks I used to visit still had dams, walls, gyms, etc. still being used and still in good shape, after nearly 100 years.
Maybe the one, two good things about being a bum.
Like a dog, the world is your toilet and
you bathe only if you can be caught.
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