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.
For many years, I have fought homelessness for me and my family. I got jobs and that seemed to work.
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.
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.
What could possibly go wrong?
95 doublewides would be a whole lot cheaper than a hotel.
No room service though, I guess.
It’s akin to experiencing VD
95 room hotel, 94 will be for the homeless and the last one will be for a sucker who will be charged $1500 a night to cover the cost of running the shelter... 😀