Right now, appeals court decisions limit how cities in the western U.S. can enforce homeless camping ordinances. The city of Grants Pass want change that.
it's absolutely insane that in AMERICA we need to have a FEDERAL discussion about how to handle homeless people without actually doing anything to help them lmao.
making it illegal for them to live in public when its already illegal for them to squat and they obviously can't afford a place. i guess they are just completely illegal now... reads like the lead up to a mass killing more than anything
Homelessness can be really put down to a zoning issue, most cities will not allow, structures that could readily accommodate the homeless, and give them a roof over their heads, tiny houses come to mind, trailer parks, even regulated small housing units, that don’t have individual plumbing hookups, but rely on Porta potty‘s, and dump stations, and community showers and wash stations. All of these things cities could do, but are not doing. In this case Grants Pass is a prime example of a city doing nothing, and criminalizing the Resultant behavior.
Thank you! I have said almost word for word what you just said. Zoning is the elephant in the room, because it makes the system too rigid in size of structures, what zone is for what purpose, size of lots, and so many factors. We need to loosen up the zoning criteria, as we have so much wasted land now it's obscene. Bring back some of the mobile homes they ripped out for developers, tiny homes are making a difference in various places, and take off the restriction for multi-family dwellings, which would allow owners of a home to make it into a duplex or triplex, for cheaper rent.
Are you kidding? Shelters aren't the only thing we need. Low income workers need a home, not a shelter. If all the low wage earners or disabled or retired or anyone who's not middle class lived in homeless shelters, that would be absolutely ridiculous. If there is no affordable housing,the shelters would never be able to take hardly anyone in compared to who's on the streets. The cities especially will lose a lot of workers. Low wage earners are the ones out there trying to find affordable places to live. Are bosses willing to keep bailing out their workers? Not all low wage earners are school kids either. A huge portion are hard working adults trying to make an honest living.
If there is one thing clear in this case, is that the city took no actions to either house the homeless, or provide them a safe regulated place they could camp, the city’s sole argument is that there is a religious facility with stringent rules and very limited beds in the city, but the city itself provides nothing, and on this basis criminalizes camping, and sleep. Worse considering the funds spent on this case, the city could have used those funds to provide regulated accommodations, then may be a law banning camping outside those accommodations would be enforceable.
Since when does a communist social government tell me how to live and because I have a job all of a sudden people that want to do drugs our my problem or want to live above what they can afford unheard of and elections have consequences go to your city council meetings
As is the constant pollution and poison water from ' illionaire greedy indifference to environment and living things in it. 2-4 billion in 71 years; 4-8 billion in 50 we are looking at 8-16 billion in 25 years or less. And the darlin stupid blame the homeless ...not fecundity the meager sign of health is reproduction not for thought.
Closing down the assylums had weird cascading impacts... It's a valid question, though. If *every city* made homelessness illegal, where would they go? This question requires serious thought, not trolling 🤔
Placing the blame on the homeless for being homeless if they do not have the funds to pay rent somewhere makes no sense. Giving them tickets when they have no money makes no sense either. Doing sweeps just so they have to move and come back in a week makes no sense. Keeping them uncomfortable and inconvenienced makes no sense. There are areas that have designated campgrounds designed for homeless encampments, and since this problem is going to get much worse with the immigrants coming in, the cities better get serious about copying other cities that are better managing the problem with structured campgrounds. So far, there is too much flying by the seat of their pants, wasting taxpayer money and tying up law enforcement, when it doesn't help the homeless or the cities either with their current methods of dealing with them. We have campgrounds all over the nation that are for vacationers, with showers, electric, vending machines, toilets, etc. There is no reason why "transitional campgrounds" cannot be designed and managed in the same fashion. Some places already do this, in some form. We need more of them.
@@user-sg4jh9fb4d Not all the homeless are employable, because of mental illness. Are we willing to befriend them and be around their hallucinations, loud outbursts, ocd thinking, irrational thinking, lack of understanding personal hygiene, irrational hoarding of items, etc.? There is a small group of homeless that do have jobs, they just don't have a home or a car. There is/was a homeless man in my area that was disabled. He was living with his sister who he found out was using his disability funds for her own desires. He moved out, but had no other place to go. A few weeks after my husband talked to him and helped him get some food, he saw him and he looked beat up. And indeed he was as well as his stuff stolen from him, by other homeless people. Not sure what happened to him. I think he was getting help from a government agency, so hopefully they were able to help him get a place to call home. Our politicians are purposely making decisions that are causing certain effects. We ALL are suffering the ramifications of those decisions, even themselves, which makes things completely insane.
@@user-sg4jh9fb4d Myself and many others will not pay taxes to support criminalization of the poor and multiple ongoing genocides created by American failed policy, direct and indirect. Yes a high percentage of the poor are sober. Many are users. However no Government or authority has the right to our or anyone's biological matter of any kind for any reason without complied consent. Requesting or demanding drug screen screens as preliminary criteria to allow humans God given rights is disgusting in thought and would be in practice. We have a duty to secure rights when they are no longer allowed to our people by a tyrannical Government and an absurd population that supports abuse and Constitutional infringement.. This I assure you we are prepared to do at ALL costs.
@@user-sg4jh9fb4d It is not up to the public to house and care for the homeless population. It is up to our government to take the money they are wasting on shifting these unfortunates from place to place without end and without real assistance, as I mentioned. The government is so slow in doing what is obvious. Illegal immigrants are given better services than our own citizens. The reputation of the homeless has done no one any favors, but in terms of finances, what I outlined would give them some safety, better living conditions, happier residents in cities who complain, and would organize them into a full-service area that cities/counties can better access, while cleaning up our streets so businesses and tourists can return. Since you asked, I DO have a mentally ill tenant on the next block, who pays $675 for his apartment with all utilities included. I'm doing my part, as he has almost burned the property to the ground more than once over the 9 years he's been there.
I live in a blue sanctuary city and our tent communities are creating an environmental disaster due to the fecal contamination. Things have gotten so bad that even our undocumented newcomers are absolutely horrified at what they're witnessing.
Oh bull. The illegals in Encinitas CA were given the green light to use the childrens playground for soccer on weekends. The principal following up on a tip from a child student found the "sanctuary class" was using the area as a toilet . These are filthy people get your facts straight.
It is easy to address public health issues of encampment by providing sanitary toilets, and wash stations, then fining those who will not use the facilities would be justified. The city can not say there is a public health crisis, then refuse to address it, other then penalizing those that have no choice where they can take care of their bodily needs.
Aside from that, taxpayers aren't "funding" public lands. I meant it costs at most 250$ for the lawnmower to cut the grass. It's not too much more for a lil bridge here, a lil bench there... I mean what kind of funding are you referring too jenn? If there's money in your city going to the "city park fund" I hate to be the first one to tell you this, but it's actually going to your mayors' yatch.
I don't pay taxes so these people can take over our parks and public spaces, essentially making them unsafe for the public. This is what NFPs are for. Compassion only goes so far.
@@turquoismama33 sorry but the whole homeless thing is for profit or it wouldn’t exist in California. Look at all the failed policies and the so-called nonprofits really see how fast they cleaned up San Francisco just when the Chinese come in and then it went back to being in the hole that it is they voted for it but not everyone is buying into the narrative, and packing up and moving Americans last
These comments are debasing to the human beings impacted. None of these citizens of Grants Pass deserve to be judged by others. PERIOD. And for Grants Pass bureaucrats to assess it a crim to be houseless - so much so they fine a person who has no home - something indeed does need to never ever ever again happen in Grants Pass. They need to stop passing judgement and look to their citizens as human beings. Not tossed out garbage.
18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. Isaiah
Was not that ruling back when they guned down vetrans after ww1 in the warshington D.C park ?? Thought there was a supream court decision on homless puplic park camping
I would advise every migrant person or anyone fed up to go squat in millionaire democrat homes. If they try to evict they expose themselves. Spread the word.
