Tough life to live homeless during temperature extremes, and yes many have mental issues. What gets me is having homeless children and senior citizens in our country, especially homeless Vets. I think these tiny homes are a great idea as far as a stepping stone approach.eace
The Shasta Humanity Project team is days away from opening a physical office space, but that's just the beginning of a series of steps.
Redding California resident Douglas Christian has an idea on how to help his city's homeless population.
"We're envisioning developing a piece of property with 30 to 40 homes on it and providing housing for people that are currently homeless," he said.
The vision is based on Quixote Village in Olympia, Washington.
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Plans for homeless village in Redding moving forward
Do you think this is a good answer for your city as well?
I was wondering when I saw this... If this place is for homeless people, and they go here to live, they will no longer be homeless, so does that mean they have to move out?
Seriously though, I think anything we can do on a local level to help the homeless is a good idea to at least try. One of the things to remember though, is that many homeless people need psychological treatment just as much as they need a dry bed indoors, and also, some people, very few I admit but still some, CHOOSE to live that way. We have a guy near me that lives in the woods and roams from wooded area to wooded area among the farms. He's harmless and just likes it that way. He always asks the land owner before he moves in. He's been evaluated by the county and state and has no mental issues. He is not a threat for stealing. Actually has a job, and just wants to live in the open without owning any land or repairing a house. He's a nice guy, and isn't some recluse that hates people. It IS very strange, but it's what he wants for his life.
This is all fine and dandy...except for the question of who is going to pay for it.
It's always about dollars and cents with some people.
I do believe that we need to do a lot more to help homeless people.
I also believe that no matter what we do there will always be some homeless people on this planet.
It's always about dollars and cents with some people.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
Horses aren't always thirsty and some would rather drink from a certain spring where the water's fresh and clear, because no one has got around to mucking it up yet.
This is all fine and dandy...except for the question of who is going to pay for it.
Providing housing for the homeless saves taxpayers money.....and it's more humane.....
"...A program in Salt Lake City decided that it would be smarter -- and more humane -- to spend $11K/year each to house 17 chronically homeless people and provide them with social workers than it would be to waste the average of $16,670/year per person to imprison them and treat them at emergency rooms. As Nation of Change points out, this commonsense, humane and economically sound way of dealing with homelessness works, unlike the savage approaches taken by other cities (like the Waikiki rep Tom Bowker who smashed homeless peoples' carts with a sledgehammer, or cities like Tampa, which banned feeding homeless people)......"
Fighting homelessness by giving homeless people houses - Boing Boing
So...from what I understand from the article, Utah exchanges prison and emergency medical care for a place to live and a social worker. Does that mean they STILL provide emergency medical care...but neglect to count that number again?
Just wondering.
I think it means that treating the medical needs of the homeless outside of the emergency rooms and providing shelter in lieu of prison is less expensive.
...it would be smarter -- and more humane -- to spend $11K/year each to house 17 chronically homeless people and provide them with social workers than it would be to waste the average of $16,670/year per person to imprison them and treat them at emergency rooms.
The article said the government did a study....I don't see how you can get that out of the article.
So are conservatives.Seems pretty clear to me. But hey...liberals are known to misinterpret what they read and hear.
The article said the government did a study....
"... In 2005, Utah did a study that found the average annual cost for emergency services and jail time for each chronically homeless person was $16,670. The cost to house them and provide case management services was only $11,000 per person...."
So are conservatives.
I don't see how you can get that out of the article.
Seems pretty clear to me. But hey...liberals are known to misinterpret what they read and hear.
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