Posted on 10/13/2022 2:08:19 AM PDT by Libloather
Oct. 12 - An ordinance to create a homeless encampment ban around temporary shelters and protected waters in Tacoma was passed by the City Council on a 6-3 vote Tuesday night.
The ordinance restricts homeless camps from being set up within 10 blocks of the city's temporary homeless shelters.
The implementation and enforcement of the ordinance will be determined by Neighborhood and Community Services and Tacoma Police Department, ahead of the Nov. 14 effective date.
Encampments now would be banned near Aspen Court, Tacoma Emergency Micro-Shelter Sites at 6th Avenue and Orchard Street, South 69th Street and Proctor Street, 60th Street and McKinley Avenue; the stability site at 1421 Puyallup Ave.; the mitigation sites at South 82nd Street and Pacific Avenue and 3561 Pacific Avenue, the RISE Center Emergency Stabilization Shelter, Altheimer Memorial Church of God in Christ, Bethlehem Baptist Church and Shiloh Baptist Church.
The ordinance also restricts encampments alongside rivers, waterways, creeks, streams and the shorelines of Puget Sound.
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"Encampments are not a safe and healthy place for anyone because they present such a health-and-safety issue," Hines said. "This policy is meant to address encampments and encampments that are propped up around places where we're serving the most vulnerable in our community, people who are trying to get off the streets and move on with their lives, people who have accepted services, people who have accepted the rules and expectations that are necessary for them to move on."
Some people in the council chamber erupted in yells of "Shame!" after the ordinance passed.
The ordinance will go into effect Nov. 14 to coordinate with the opening of a low barrier site at 35th and Pacific Avenue.
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I call it....... wait for it....... PoopFare 🤣
voters waking up to failed liberal policies?
THAT was my thought...
My husband has some homeless stats, and I think you are correct...but mostly they all have issues and letting them camp year round wherever does not solve them.
“ But beyond that, most of society seems to be somewhat mentally ill. I’m serious.”
Somewhat? Most of this society is stark raving mad.
And Tacoma is just another leftist hellhole. They will never fix any problems that they have, just another mid-sized city sinking into the ooze.
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Well you have to get your voters from where ever they
are residing. Much easier if they are all hanging out
together enjoying the gov’t bennies.
A comparative analogy. Someone once told me that Veterans, especially disabled Veterans are overwhelming the system. He claimed that there are just too many for the system to care for and help. So nothing can be done about it.
For me the answer was far simple... “Then stop creating Veterans”. This situation is exactly the same thing. We would not have a homeless problem if we would stop creating the homeless.
Cause and effect. We reap what we sow. Shunning and excommunicating them doesn’t fix the source of the problem. It just relocates the problem. Not wanting to see them does not make them any less homeless.
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