Posted on 01/20/2026 3:54:48 AM PST by C19fan
Residents in a trendy apartment building in Denver, Colorado say their peaceful lives turned into a nightmare when homeless families were given free apartments next door.
Owen Johnson, a 25-year-old from Missouri, says he moved into the White Swan apartment building near the city's Congress Park in May with his wife.
But Johnson says their honeymoon period after tying the knot was quickly ruined when a homeless man was given a state housing voucher to move into the apartment next to theirs, and he says it dawned on them the tenant 'was crazy.'
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There’s a good reason why the homeless are that way!
And they have housing insecurity.
Ever wonder why there were so few mass killings before the 1970s? I remember three mass murderers between 1949 and 1970. all crazies.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/
Howard Unruh, 1949. Considered the first mass murderer, So dangerous he died in a mental hospital in 2009.
Richard Speck, 1966. Murdered eight student nurses with a knife. Died in prison.
Charles Whitman, 1966. killed many from the Texas Tower. Had a tumor on the brain, killed on site.
Then in the 1970s, the mental hospitals were closed down, the crazies declared “sane” enough to walk the streets and murder rates took off like a rocket.
Here is partial list of people who would have been in a MENTAL WARD before many of the ASYLUMS were shut down, crazies declared “sane” and dumped on the streets.
ALL CRAZIES allowed to roam the streets...
Mark David Chapman who murdered John Lennon
John Hinckley Jr. who shot President Reagan
Robert John Bardo who shot Rebecca Schaeffer
David Berkowitz, the .44 Cailber Killer.
Jared Laugher who shot Gabby Giffords.
Pat Purdy, released from a mental hospital, allowed to buy guns, then shot up the Stockton School Yard.
Patrick Sherrill who shot up the Edmond Post office.
James Oliver Huberty who shot so many at MacDonalds
This is just a SHORT LIST t of people who were crazy enough who would have been in a mental hospital before they were closed down in the 1970s.
When you add the MASS MURDERERS and CHURCH and SCHOOL SHOOTERS who would have been shown to be insane but allowed to roam freely you will begin to understand why it is...
LONG PAST TIME TO REOPEN THE MENTAL WARDS AGAIN!
Now we can add another name, Decarlos Brown Jr. who knifed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.
Nick Reiner who is accused of murdering his parents Rob Reiner and wife with a knife.
Rita Loncharich, 65. Knifed by a crazy.
Cheyenne Kastens, stabbed 40 times by another crazy, Lemar Beasley.
Actually TWO movies were the cause in getting the mental hospitals closed down. TITICUT FOLLIES(1967) and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST.
Plus, as a prospective tenant news like this gets around.
I lived briefly in an apartment project when I first moved to NH. Every week the fire trucks would show up because someone burned a pizza. Then the police would show up a couple times because of some domestic situation. Typically after midnight on a Tuesday.
I left after three months. Broke the lease. Let them have my security deposit. When I spoke to other people in town those apartments had a reputation. Everyone knew NOT to rent there. It was a last resort type of place.
The other factor is that the real estate value of surrounding buildings and single family houses is effected by this. Just like if “THE PROJECTS” in your city are close by. No one wants to buy a house if the projects are close by.
It is true that an artsy movie back in the 70s, completely misrepresenting the dangers of mentally ill people, wrongly demonized having safe spaces to protect them and protect others from them. That lie has led to this sacred cow homeless phenomenon covering our sidewalks. Most people don’t understand that. I appreciate you mentioning it.
I had a guy approach me at a gas station once.
He asked for $5 to put gas in his car.
I said I will fill up your car IF you tell the clerk what pump you are on.
He followed me in to the store. I paid for my gas and his.
He thanked me profusely.
I was weary at first too. I figured he wanted the money for drugs/alcohol. Maybe he drove to the liquor store after that.
The left are A-OK with this - politicians too - as long as it’s not next to them.
We had this happen to us as well - a woman approached us in Central California at a gas station in the blazing heat, said she’d run out of gas and had no money. My husband walked to the car and saw there was an elderly man sitting in the front seat.
WE had the car pull around to the pump and we filled it from there.
You can’t help someone who won’t help themselves. That is a lesson the leftist bleeding hearts never learn.
I had a friend who was a social worker. She was driving herself crazy dealing with people who didn’t seem capable of escaping their alcoholism and drug abuse. Her boss called her in one day and told her one thing. “You can’t save them all. Quit trying or you’ll go nuts.” She couldn’t accept or reconcile that. It’s not what her liberal professors had taught, nor did it match up with her far left belief system. So, she quit not long after and found a new profession.
Don’t know what ever happened to her.
Denver let the homeless take over parking lots, parks,sidewalks, hotels. The smart people moved out when every hotel became a shelter.Be very careful where you buy, real estate agents arent going to tell you what the city planners are doing.
It’s so true.
And some people like to be miserable. That way they can blame everyone else for their misery, and never take responsibility for it themselves. It’s sad.
I've always been fascinated by the fact that the rise of liberalism can be tracked with the closing of asylums. The homeless and democrat populations exploded.
Nope, they are mentally ill and need to be in institutions.
You c’mon man.
Eisenstein (definitely not an Einstein) FA’d and FO’ed.
Smart enough to invest in a rental property, yet dumb enough to take gubmint money and let them take over. Sheesh.
They don’t deserve help. Helping them brings their insanity into civilized society. It’s like saying a serial killer “needs help”. Nope.
The homeless, the insane. the criminals, the addicts and the shiftless need to be excluded from society proper. They do not belong. Don’t harm them and don’t help them.
And when they attack, terminate the threat swiftly and permanently.
There is a difference between the homeless and the chronically homeless.
Most of homeless numbers you hear about are made up of people who have fallen on hard times and they quickly get back on their feet. Some small amount of help and they are no longer homeless.
The chronically homeless are another thing entirely.
There is usually something wrong with them, usually drug or alcohol although sometimes it is a mental problem as well.
Putting them some place where they can be cared for will not totally get rid of the homeless problem because there always has been the homeless by choice and the homeless because they are hiding for some reason. But it will reduce the problem to a manageable level.
‘ There is usually something wrong with them, usually drug or alcohol although sometimes it is a mental problem as well.’
I’ve heard stories from homeless drug addicts that really made me think of the problem differently.
Some of the stories re horrifying. Sexual abuse, physical abuse, parents who killed their spouse, drug addicted or mentally ill parents, and we sit and judge.
Would I want them in my home? Hell no.
But most of the time it isn’t a damn choice.
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