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People experiencing homelessness in Denver can expect a series of large clean-ups over the next week
Denverite ^ | May 13 2020 | Donna Bryson

Posted on 05/24/2020 9:28:10 PM PDT by rintintin

City crews are planning three large-scale clean-ups over the next week in areas where people experiencing homelessness have been camping.

In an email, city spokeswoman Nancy Kuhn said the first would be Thursday along the Platte River around the intersection of 29th Street and Arkins Court, near the Salvation Army’s Crossroads shelter in Five Points. Kuh said clean-ups also were scheduled next Tuesday along Glenarm Place from 21st Street to Park Avenue West in Five Points and Wednesday around the intersection of Washington Street and East 13th Avenue near Saint John’s Cathedral in Capitol Hill.

“We are seeing the areas become increasingly hazardous, in addition to encumbering the public right of way, and want to keep everyone safe,” Kuhn said. “At this time, due to the COVID-19 crisis, once each specific area is cleaned, people experiencing homelessness may return to the cleaned area, if they choose to do so.”

(Excerpt) Read more at denverite.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: bums; vagrants
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1 posted on 05/24/2020 9:28:10 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Has homelessness become more of a problem since Colo legalized pot?


2 posted on 05/24/2020 9:29:25 PM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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To: rintintin

“People experiencing homelessness”. Sheesh. Crazy bums, no?


3 posted on 05/24/2020 9:31:07 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: rintintin

Why do they say people experiencing homelessness? It sounds like an awkward word choice to me. We aren’t supposed to say homeless people? Instead we’re supposed to say that people are having a homeless experience? But we aren’t supposed to say the people involved are homeless?

Since they said “people experiencing hopelessness” twice, I’m assuming that that is a conscious decision made on the part of newspaper people to describe this population who live on the streets.


4 posted on 05/24/2020 9:32:47 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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So what’s the deal? They are going to hose down old feces and garbage, but then let people get right back in there and befoul the area again????


5 posted on 05/24/2020 9:34:36 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I think they are cleaning up so that the “people experiencing homelessness” don’t also experience the “European virus”.

Someone should make a glossary of all these terms.


6 posted on 05/24/2020 9:36:07 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: rintintin

Personally, I don’t think it’s tied to pot. Denver has always been a popular homeless spot, go back to the 40’s and Kerouac was writing about it. We’ve been in mostly boom times since the 90’s and a hard shift leftward since the ‘oughts - both of those combined mean a rise in bums.

I’ve been working downtown the last 7 years and it’s gotten to the point I try not to if I don’t have to. Property crime is up, there’s feces and needles all over the streets and you step over bodies aggressively begging to get anywhere. I drive to my office, drive to my gym, than home to the ‘burbs.


7 posted on 05/24/2020 9:41:44 PM PDT by sicsempertyrannisDenver
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Because the meme of the left the last few years is “we’re all just one step away from homelessness”. This plays into that theme “they didn’t do anything wrong, they’re just experiencing homelessness. YOU COULD BE NEXT”

It’s all BS leftist word games


8 posted on 05/24/2020 9:44:06 PM PDT by sicsempertyrannisDenver
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To: sicsempertyrannisDenver

I was old the correct term is Urban Outdoor Persons. Seriously.


9 posted on 05/24/2020 9:47:08 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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10 posted on 05/24/2020 9:50:24 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“They are going to hose down old feces and garbage, but then let people get right back in there and befoul the area again????”

Yes. They call it “compassion”.

L


11 posted on 05/24/2020 9:51:42 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Why do they say people experiencing homelessness? It sounds like an awkward word choice to me. “


It’s like the phrase “enslaved people” replacing “slaves” now often used in school textbooks. Five syllables replacing one.


12 posted on 05/24/2020 9:59:32 PM PDT by hanamizu
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“Yes. They call it “compassion”.”

If they were really compassionate, they would buy them all new shopping carts.


13 posted on 05/24/2020 10:10:30 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: rintintin

The homeless problem this country is experiencing now is going to seem like a nothing burger compared to what the Covid-Panic is about to cause.


14 posted on 05/24/2020 10:12:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (If you see me wearing a mask ... don't assume I'm wearing it for Covid-19.)
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To: rintintin

“Clean ups”??

Flea dips, lysol showere??


15 posted on 05/24/2020 11:01:34 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: TigersEye

Wait until the enhanced unemployment goes away and evictions are allowed. According to a tenant rights eviction lawyer in Boulder County, a little over 50,000 eviction cases are ready to go once the eviction moritorium is lifted and courts are re-opened in that county alone.

Property Management companies have been already using collection agencies to get past due rent owed - even before the courts open back up.

So people will get flattened. Evicted and a judgement/ court-ordered garnishment on their record.


16 posted on 05/24/2020 11:23:36 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: rintintin

Colorado was already going into the bong water.


17 posted on 05/24/2020 11:36:40 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

Undomiciled has been gaining traction.


18 posted on 05/25/2020 1:04:27 AM PDT by pluvmantelo (If elected, Biden will be the first President subject to the 25th amendment upon taking office)
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To: Starcitizen

“According to a tenant rights eviction lawyer in Boulder County, a little over 50,000 eviction cases are ready to go once the eviction moritorium is lifted and courts are re-opened in that county alone.”

That seems to me an entirely stupid thing for landlords to do. Who do they think is going to give them three months rent and move in after they kick out their current renters?

Seems to me it would be much smarter to just tell their current renters to pay extra until they catch up.


19 posted on 05/25/2020 2:18:58 AM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: rintintin
The problem is not "people experiencing homelessness." The problem is People Experiencing Drug Addiction.


20 posted on 05/25/2020 3:17:57 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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