Posted on 03/20/2018 1:23:54 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
“Permanent housing for the homeless”.
So then they won’t be homeless any more?
How about homeless camps in Needles or Blythe CA?
It is the solution the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted for yesterday.
My personal opinion is that the $70 million will not be a solution, but instead a never-ending and ever-increasing expense.
I have friends in Huntington B. They told this is the last bastion of beautiful scenery in Socal and the residents there dont want the place to end up like Santa Cruz...a legendary beach turned liberal sh*thole.
So will they then stop calling them homeless?
I bet the celebrities could house a lot of them in their mcmansions.
I remember when they used to call them bums.
I agree that mental health treatment is important. The article doesn't address building new inpatient facilities.
And, would they still be drug addicts??? Would they still have mental issues????
Unfortunately, most likely, yes.
H B has been a pig sty for well over 25 years Slater slums are now all over the place
The new and improved homeless will be arriving shortly.
They take up an encampment down by the river and again there is a homeless problem. I know let’s put them up in hotels.............
Chicken Dinner Restaurant at Knott’s they took all the curbside parking out sucks to try to get chicken to go now
How about Malibu, Beverly Hills, etc.
And it will be trashed, vandalized burned down and ruined in short notice. The homeless are homeless for a reason and it’s mostly mental health issues. I’d put cas money on it.
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I’m sorry I must have missed the part of the article explaining how much will be spent on the actual taxpayers of California.
I agree.
They certainly have.
Liberalism and Progressivism is literally a cancer that destroys anything and everything it touches, yo. In a sense, you have just testified to such with your comment and observation. California, along with a host of other examples such as Chicago, Detroit, etc., are prime examples of that actual cancer destroying this country.
What if they (the politicians) are not really too stupid to know how to solve some of these problems?
What if instead they have discovered how to hide their corruption in these various social and out reach programs?
Think about it. These are all “feel good” programs designed to suck up tax payer dollars. There is no defined and provable goal and so no way to tell if all those millions were well spent.
Are these programs ever audited?
Summer opening planned for Virginia Beach's first homeless center
VIRGINIA BEACH
The city’s first consolidated attempt to serve the homeless will open this summer off Witchduck Road – several months after officials said it would be running.
Construction crews broke ground on the $29 million Housing Resource Center off Interstate 264 in October 2016 and had hoped to finish by early this year.
But bad weather and changes that the city requested to the interior of the building pushed back the opening date, said Karen Prochilo, the project manager.
The three-story building on North Witchduck Road, near the Renaissance Academy, represents something more ambitious than its appearance may suggest.
For Virginia Beach, it’s the beginning of a new approach to dealing with homelessness in a city that has, for decades, taken a piecemeal approach.
The building was conceived to consolidate services for the city’s homeless and provide a place to live, eat, get health care and receive job training. Caseworkers as well as other services will also be available.
For now, the place is slated to open in June but won’t be fully operational till August.
The new building will offer a mix of different housing options: 49 single-shelter beds, 10 motel-style rooms for families and 29 studio efficiency apartments reserved for people looking to transition into permanent housing.
During its first year, the city estimates it will provide shelter for 225 single people, 48 families and at least 29 people in the apartments.
Virginia Beach’s goal is to see 113 single people and 43 families whom the center serves during its first year to wind up in permanent homes.
The city intentionally picked a spot away from the Oceanfront to move the homeless population out of the resort area.
Free transportation will be provided from the Oceanfront for those who would like to stay at the Housing Resource Center.
Andy Friedman, director of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation, said his department plans to request funding in the next budget to cover the cost of two vehicles and all other expenses related to transportation.
With the Housing Resource Center expected to open in a few months, it will affect other providers that are currently helping the homeless.
The Lighthouse Center, on 19th Street and Monroe Avenue near the Convention Center, offers services to the homeless during the day. It is scheduled to close in late July once the center has day services in place.
“We want to have a seamless transition,” Friedman said.
Another organization, the Judeo-Christian Outreach Center, on Virginia Beach Boulevard and North Birdneck Road, will be the only other Oceanfront group left that provides homeless services near the resort. The nonprofit has been considering rebuilding its shelter and soup kitchen, changing its services or relocating.
The JCOC also applied to operate the shelter and day services programs at the Housing Resource Center, but no decisions have been made.
“We are actively interested in what the future of JCOC will be and how we can work together to get the result we both want,” Friedman said.
The city wants the majority of services to be run by organizations already helping the homeless. It is still going through the process of selecting operators for each division of the shelter.
The Samaritan House, a nonprofit domestic violence emergency shelter, received an $85,000 federal grant to run the family housing unit.
Another ghetto in the making to be destroyed by the people they’re claiming to help. They never learn and keep wasting money they take from those who actually work.
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