Posted on 05/07/2021 4:24:43 AM PDT by real saxophonist
It’s like hunger.
The minute the public finds out what the functional definition is, they change the term. So hunger is now food insecurity.
Homelessness is now experiencing homelessness.
That way their butts are covered when the public finds out what that really means. In this case, lots of folks who just want a free ride instead of the mentally ill and/or drug addicted.
SNORT.
The more free stuff they give them, the more of them there will be. It is like giving candy to little kids. Word gets around and kids from all over everywhere will show up to get free candy. It is like Denver is competing with the other cities to see which city can have the most homeless people.
If they say 7.8 million it’ll be more like 15-20 mil. It’ll be a crime ridden roach motel a few days after it’s open.
Yep.
Austin has bought several hotels . Their last one was 9 mil. This doesn’t work.
The homeless are either selling them, or using them to cook meth.
One local do gooder, who lives in an exclusive gated community, made a Facebook appeal to take gallons of gasoline to homeless who live under a very busy bridge. It was for their generators
For many years, I have fought homelessness for me and my family. I got jobs and that seemed to work.
You can forecast a room-fire or two over the next twelve months....bedbugs as a continual problem...and Police being called out a minimum ten times a month. It’ll be torn down between two and three years from now. At least then, the property will have re-sell value.
“It is like Denver is competing with the other cities to see which city can have the most homeless people.”
Back in the nineties, St. Pete, Fl. literally exported their homeless to Clearwater. They did this by arresting them, “discovering” they couldn’t hold them, and then simply letting them go from the booking facility...which was miles from St. Pete, but right next to Clearwater. There was a lawsuit, and I don’t know how that worked out. But the result is a renaissance in St. Pete for downtown businesses. (Oh, and the tax base they represent.)
I live near Tallahassee, which has a huge homeless population, thanks to liberal policies that encourage homelessness. The result is that Tallahassee is one of the most dangerous cities in Florida. This could have been stopped, but it is a reliable stalking horse for Democrats who run on solving the homelessness issue. Somehow the voters never realize that the issue only gets larger. That’s because the voters are government employees and academics. There is no industry to speak of in Tallahassee because the city actively discourages it. (Industry would mean diluting the voters with common people who want entirely different things than government workers and academics.)
So, Denver buys one 95 room hotel, fills with homeless persons. Then they buy a second hotel because the first is full, fill it with homeless persons. This leads to a 3rd and 4th hotel purchase, then six more hotels..... where will this end? Never because politicians want problems, not solutions.
Denver is trying to become sanfransicko.
Price is no object when it’s taxpayers money!
Here’s hoping they attract a bunch of the bums (oops! i mean “homeless”) from Salt Lake City.
Build them (or buy them) and they will come.
Spot on - but none of that will EVER make the news cycles.
What could possibly go wrong?
95 doublewides would be a whole lot cheaper than a hotel.
No room service though, I guess.
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It’s akin to experiencing VD
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