Posted on 11/30/2020 1:16:42 PM PST by Liberty7732
I live in Sarasota ...the half they talk about are mostly new on the street..
They get them off the street and to mental health clinic...
I think they can only keep them ten days...
Then to rehab or back on the street.
Then it is repeated...
I think some probably move on where there left alone
Bookmarked
Good morning,
I’ve searched but cannot find the article that you mentioned. Do you have a link what I can read it?
Thank you
This was in the early ‘90’s, well before the internet. I left Sarasota in ‘94. It was published sometime before then, but after ‘92. My guess is it was never put on the internet. (Articles I wrote for the Tallahassee Democrat were removed even though they were written well after the internet due to legal actions to give writers a portion of the proceeds from internet traffic. So, likely a lot of articles are no longer available for one reason or another.)
Also, the article did not conform to the excepted narrative because the conclusion was that a significant portion of the homeless were not at all what they are portrayed as. They had money, cars, credit cards, PO boxes, families in regular houses, etc. They just chose not to live in houses.
This information was developed by the private detective who followed panhandlers, looked up their license plates and discovered the cars were legally licensed and insured. He witnessed them making bank deposits and using ATM’s as well as using their credit cards. An “actuarial?” accountant used IRS formulas and interviews to establish their income, which at the time, if I recall, he estimated averaged over $35k based on its non-taxed nature. At the time that was considered good money.
I am always hesitant to say anything I can’t back up, but in this case only memory serves. My guess is that the character of the homeless changes in each area based on climate, availability of resources...such as homeless shelters, and other factors. Tallahassee has a huge problem because they operate shelters and other giveaways which encourage some really crazy people with mental, drug and alcohol problems to stick around as they make life easy.
In my opinion it is St. Pete who have a real solution to the problem. They aggressively patrol and prevent the homeless from panhandling, which encourages them to leave. Thus St. Pete can have huge outdoor entrepreneurial operations that are impossible in other circumstances.
Not asking for link to second guess you, but for informative reading. I have empathy for homelessness and would like to see the problem in South Florida resolved.
Thank you
I’ll do more digging on Robert G. Marbut, Jr. And his organization
Someone a while back linked a great video out of a Seattle TV station that compared their approach to that of Rhode Island. RI too emphasized that it is a problem of substance abuse and not housing. The same conclusion was reached, if you don’t treat the underlying reasons one is homeless, you haven’t solved the problem. Notable in the piece was video of the city council members appearing clueless as relevant testimony was offered.
It’s not just Sarasota...
Lots of Florida cities are livable because we keep democrat thugs out of power as much as possible...
Democrats have to find other ways to feel superior to the rest of us - we don’t let them virtue signal from their gated communities using ‘the homeless’...
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