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Advocates Speak Out on Behalf of Santa Barbara’s Homeless
After the deaths of three homeless people Saturday and Sunday, homeless advocates appealed for help Monday during a hastily called news conference.
Five panelists seeking help from the city and county of Santa Barbara gathered in a private home, near a memorial painted with dozens of names of the homeless who have died over the years.
Two homeless deaths were discovered Saturday morning. The body of a 43-year-old woman was found in a driveway off the 300 block of Castillo Street. A 43-year-old man was found beneath the Milpas Street Underpass, and reportedly was in possession of illegally obtained methadone pills.
On Sunday, officers conducting a premise check in the same area found another body — a 52-year-old man who also was reported to have methadone pills in his possession.
The coroner has custody of the bodies and is working to determine the causes of death, according to police, who said the deaths — so far — seem unrelated.
But this weekend’s deaths pushed the toll in Santa Barbara to five this year, signaling to Michael Foley, executive director of the Casa Esperanza homeless shelter, 816 Cacique St., that something needs to be done.
“We think it’s reached a crisis point,” he said.
After a particularly cold and rainy week, every bed at the shelter has been full for the last 20 days, according to Foley.
The new year’s toll comes on the heels of 28 deaths among Santa Barbara’s homeless in 2009.
The crux of Monday’s appeal was to the city and county to open up warming centers during cold or rainy nights, which recently have been held in local churches.
The warming centers serve as a place for the homeless to sit or sleep for the night — out of the elements.
“It’s remarkably temporary,” Foley said. “The warming shelter helps them stand up and fight another day.”
Dr. Lynn Jahnke, a retired oncologist, has been spearheading the effort to get the warming centers up and running since the cold weather began.
“It has to do with being a concerned citizen,” she said.
Jahnke said she takes issue with the fact that there’s no protocol in place, only a draft that various county committees have been mulling over for nearly three years.
“What took three years for the county to consider, we were able to construct in three hours,” she said of the shelter that will be open Monday and Tuesday nights at the Unitarian Church in downtown Santa Barbara because rain was in the forecast.
“The city and county seem surprised that it rains every winter,” she said.
With the recent heavy rains, Jahnke said the warming center at the church had opened six days in a row.
It was a huge success, she said, and that people who had never been to a shelter before showed up. The warming shelter will be open whenever there’s a chance of rain or temperatures are expected to drop below 35 degrees.
Jahnke said many churches have been willing to offer their space, but finding qualified volunteers to supervise the facilities has been a challenge. Each night it has been open, the center has seen an increase in homeless.
Those who make their way to warming shelters vary from “slightly inebriated to severely mentally ill,” she said, and volunteers would need to be experienced in dealing with the homeless. Anyone willing to volunteer can call Jahnke at 805.455.0204.
The public is being asked to donate sleeping bags, blankets, warm clothing and socks. Rain gear also is in short supply locally, and Foley encouraged people to donate to Bringing Our Community Home so it can purchase and distribute the rain gear.
All of the homeless deaths have occurred at night, Foley said, and professional street outreach is needed at night.
Jeff Shafer, executive director of the Uffizi Mission Project, said the warming centers are essential.
“It’s about us as a city and what we’re deciding to be,” he said.
The American Red Cross is unable to help unless a state of emergency is declared, and the county would have to intervene to take some of the pressure off the shelters. A proposal had been given to the county, according to Foley, but has sat on the desk of county CEO Michael Brown for the past three weeks.
County officials responded Tuesday, however, that Brown hadn’t received any such paperwork.
Like shelters, access to mental health care also has been a dire need for Santa Barbara’s homeless.
In December, 43 homeless came to the shelter for the first time, reporting that they needed help dealing with mental illness, compared with 27 in 2008.
Roger Thompson, director of the Consumer Advocacy Coalition, attended Monday’s news conference and echoed the need for access to mental health care.
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will hear a presentation Tuesday about the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services Department, one of the agencies charged with addressing the mental-health needs of the homeless. It drastically reduced spending last year and has historically been cash-strapped from years of bad billing practices.
The supervisors will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Santa Maria at the Betteravia Government Center Board Hearing Room, 511 E. Lakeside Pkwy.
Foley encouraged residents to call the supervisors to tell them that the department is in crisis and to demand improvements.
He said there are some people who don’t want to be in the shelters, but those are “a true minority,” and many of them suffer from mental illness.
Social worker Ken Williams on Monday handed out a “Homeless Bill of Rights,” a document that’s been circulating and gathering support throughout the community.
Among the listed fundamental rights of the homeless are the rights not to be murdered, physically assaulted or raped.
“It’s ridiculous we even have to bring this up,” Williams said. “Santa Barbara has to decide if we’re going to accept this.”
— Noozhawk staff writer Lara Cooper can be reached at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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» on 01.26.10 @ 02:45 AM
Where is the tax payers Bill of Rights Ken Williams? The right to not have special interests demand money from the government, especially in a weak economy. Why don’t you live a life of poverty like Ghandi if you care so much. Your ego is as large as the problem you make it out to be.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 04:47 AM
So here is Santa Barbara: bastion of wealth and led by nominally progressive politicians and yet people are freezing to death on their streets.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 07:31 AM
the deaths over the weekend appear to be drug and alcohol overdoses. you make it sound like there are healthy little babies freezing to death in the bushes. not men and women who have been begged, cajoled, brought in out of the cold numerous times and still have chosen to return. plus- these deaths all happened in the City. Where’s the march to City Hall?
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» on 01.26.10 @ 08:04 AM
Normally I would agree with John Q, as this is an issue that is rightly being taken care by private charitable people, and faith based groups. There is a myriad of help in that area as shown in the article - the Rescue Mission is another. However, so many homeless LIKE to be homeless, they choose it. They prefer to be out in the open, they prefer a nonstructured life and their alcohol an drug abuse (methadone in this case) they have given up any will to improve their lives and have accepted it as a lifestyle. However, it seems the government has always taken care of the mentally ill in institutions as a public safety matter (remember One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest?). I don’t think that is happening anymore for some reason, maybe it’s not politically correct to label someone insane or mad or crazy or loco anymore, but they do present a danger to society if allowed to roam free.
Public safety is not beyond the scope of the government’s duties, but to declare a “right” not to be murdered, physically assaulted or raped is going a little too far. These are preferences for everyone, not just the homeless, but they are not “rights”. It is within the scope of the government to protect people from these abuses however, homeless or not. My test of the proper role of government is if it falls within two categories, public safety or infrastructure. In the case of the mentally ill, I think it is the government’s duty to provide services or an institution to protect the public - mental health care is beyond the capability of churches and other non-profits. In the case of the just plain homeless by choice, Santa Barbara is a pretty darn mild winter compared to other locales and we should not be having the government providing for any homeless from anywhere that chooses to migrate here for the winter. All it does is attract more and more and that is beyond our budget.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 08:19 AM
We don’t need to create a haven for the homeless population like Santa Cruz. The homeless population brings nothing to the community and adds to the problems of the poorer parts of town.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 08:51 AM
Please stop using the term progressive. It’s ignorant.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 09:54 AM
I live in Portland, Oregon, a place “Rolling Stone” has described as a mecca for homeless coming from elsewhere due to our bountiful services. This has sadly transformed our vibrant downtown into a less desirable place for shoppers, tourists and businesses to be. I recently bought a second home in Santa Barbara and was surprised how much WORSE it was here, where walking down State Street can result in being panhandled, often aggressively so, a dozen times. For a city relying on tourism dollars, this constant harassment is unacceptable. We can have services and compassion for the homeless and mentally ill but draw the line, as many other tourism communities have, by making downtown a no-panhandling zone.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 12:15 PM
I do not believe the increase of homeless deaths is because of increased neglect for the homeless. While it may be true that there has been a ramp up of homeless deaths, has anyone considered this may be in proportion to the increased number of homeless we have attracted to the area because of all of our free services and “compassion”? Where is the total number of homeless in the area reported and the upward trend?
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» on 01.26.10 @ 12:37 PM
What happened to those days where repeat transients and petty criminals were put on busses and shipped back to their place of origin or nearest family?
Main Street, Ventura has done something to clean up its panhandling in the past years. SB should follow suit.
Tax payers don’t need to be burdened further by funding additional services for the homeless. When do we draw the line between charity and enabling?
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» on 01.26.10 @ 01:40 PM
Another fundraising opportunity for the local shelters and programs, I see…
And of course, be sure to ALWAYS keep people convinced that all homeless people are:
A: from somewhere else,
B: Alcoholic or drug-addicted,
C: Mentally ill,
D: Like being homeless
E: All of the above
As long as we keep perpetuating this myth, we can keep justifying maintenance of the status quo.
Which is still not working, by the way.
When a person lives in a place where they are going along living on their crummy wages from their dead-end service job with no benefits, then the rents and costs of living soar, the typical answer is: “If you can’t afford to live here, then leave”...which is of course, a non-answer.
And one given by those who feel secure that this will never happen to them…
When this worker, priced out of his own town, finds himself living in a car or worse, he is quickly tagged with one of the above approved labels, and if the local programs get their wish, herded into one of those programs.
Because you see, the greater the head count in these programs, the more money they receive, and the safer the six figure incomes of their directors.
BTW, I do not count Ken Williams among that group; he is the only person who has consistently risen to the top in these situations, and doing so because he wants to help his fellow human beings. He makes FAR from a large income.
What we are doing doesn’t work. Shelters and programs don’t work. Santa Barbarans (yeah, hate to tell the nay-sayers out there who stubbornly cling to the magnet theory, but the majority are Santa Barbarans)are losing their homes and jobs in record numbers.
The portion of employed homeless is NEVER addressed, because to do so would be to admit this city is broken, and has become a city for rich people,college kids living large on their parents’ money, and drunks driving from bar to bar, wine room to wine room, then driving home.
Time for a new approach geared towards independence, not more programs, shelters, and special housing that comes with social workers wrapped around people’s necks for years on end. Time to stop making money off the homeless and instead going back to being a city where anyone with a job or on a fixed income can have a decent, safe place to live.
What we are doing isn’t working. People are dying. They are freezing to death. Labeling them as drunks or druggies or whatever other tag the local program directors need to use to justify their jobs does NOT address the facts. Not even close.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 02:14 PM
If you ever went downtown or to the beach, you would realize that none of these are myths….
A: from somewhere else,
B: Alcoholic or drug-addicted,
C: Mentally ill,
D: Like being homeless
E: All of the above
Gotta love the argument that homeless were normal joe’s one paycheck short of paying rent.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 03:31 PM
I watched the Supervisors meeting today and the comments about the homeless death. I almost fell out of my chair when that older woman whos name i didn’t get actually called the supervisors murderers——murderers? because three people drank and drugged themselves to death on the street despite millions of dollars of taxpayer money in this county put into social services and homeless services in the past few years? it is statements like that will create a backlash from the average taxpayer who realizes the absurdity of such statements
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» on 01.26.10 @ 03:55 PM
The more you provide for the homeless, the more there are! It’s like Haiti, where do you stop?
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» on 01.26.10 @ 04:15 PM
Interesting how some of you ‘know’ how these recent homeless persons died when even the Coroner hasn’t released that information. And when you use the word ‘we’ when addressing the problem of homelessness in Santa Barbara - what are ‘YOU’ doing to help with the problem, besides mouthing off to those who are? A lot of assumptions being stated here. A lot of incorrect facts, as well. Get your facts straight before making a fool of yourself here. Don’t assume you know it all. Don’t knock Mike and Ken who are out there in the trenches doing what they can to help the homeless, and helping many to get off the street and back to being productive members of our community. Quit complaining and become part of the solution. By the way, since some of you have forgotten, these are human beings. Maybe you’re just cold-hearted. I feel sorry for you.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 07:47 PM
Or we could just pass the word out to the tourist…please just step over the frozen corpses. We’re sorry, but we had to get tough with the rabble around here. If you like the bar scene, beware of the ride along media machine, they’d love nothing more than to make a fool out of you.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 08:38 PM
Good-hearted, caring people.
But many of the “homeless” are that way because of drugs, alcohol, mental illness, and families who have given up on them after so much crud.
Many others are restless drifters, who will not voluntarily come in to warming centers on cold, wet nights if it means agreeing not to smoke, drink, shoot up, or swear.
Short of unilaterally turning Mission Canyon’s famous Casa Marin into another center, and forcing law enforcement to drag them in out of the cold, make them see a doctor, compel them to take medicine, require them to eat nutritious food, rather
than drink their “food money” away ... how do we help people in a bad way who do
not want to be helped?
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» on 01.26.10 @ 09:22 PM
Real estate in Santa Barbara is way to expensive to be housing homeless people here. It would be far more economical to bus them to Texas, where land is cheap and plentiful.
Seriously, what economic sense does it make for tax payers to be housing folks in a city where even most full time workers can’t afford to live?
I’m all for helping out those in need, but there’s no reason homeless people have to stay homeless here in Santa Barbara when it costs far less to shelter them down south.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 10:07 PM
John Q your statement is cold and heartless. You should be ashamed of yourself for valuing money more than you value human lives. You have no respect for humanity or decency.
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» on 01.26.10 @ 10:14 PM
I think we can all agree on several things about many tourists who visit Santa Barbara:
A: from somewhere else,
B: Alcoholic or drug-addicted,
C: Mentally ill,
D: Like being homeless
E: All of the above
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» on 01.27.10 @ 04:44 AM
John Q, Ken Williams obviously does live a very modest life and his ego is very much in check - we are lucky to have a person like this in our community serving our homeless with such care and compassion. You, on the other hand, should crawl back under the rock from whence you came, you knucklehead!!!!!
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» on 01.27.10 @ 07:15 AM
Stop trying to play the “guilt trip card”. I have been out in the “trenches” dealing with this category of “homeless” folks before.
These transient street people have been coming to Santa Barbara from colder climates for over 50 years. They often used to come by hopping freight trains and getting off here when the trains stopped to arrange the destination of their box cars. (Santa Barbara used to be a switch yard complete with a round house roughly where the Fess Parker Red Lion Rotunda now sits).
The only difference is the mean age of these transient street people has gotten younger, partly a result of the widespread drug and alcohol abuse that has increased over the years and because of the efforts of the liberal do gooder types to classify all of those who are without a home as “homeless”. That is, those who have legitimatetly fallen on hard times through no fault of their own and asre seeking a helping hand, are somehow the same as those who have chosen the irresponsible life on the streets demanding others take care of them.
The persistant refusal to make these distinctions within the so called “homeless” population is perpetuated by these many private agencies demmanding money for the “homeless” when in many cases they are just milking the system to feather their own bed. If one could not portray this segment of very visible transient, pandhanling, substance abusers plying the streets as “poor homeless” people, how much money do you think could be milked out of an unsympathetic public?
The generic “homeless” are those who by misfortune of some kind, are unable to provide for themselves. Included in this group are those who have been turned out or turned away from mental health institutions because they have been determined to “not a sufficient danger to themselves or to others”. Applying this legal standard, they are no longer institutionalized!
The remaining component of “homeless” are the transient lifestyle bunch we have been talking about, and included in this group are sometimes fugitives from the legal system and juvenile run aways.
To repeat, the desire to classify all of these segments of tha generic “homeless” population as ONE is often promoted by those who have a monetary stake in doing so. As one poster pointed out above, the more there are in the “homeless” population the more money is demanded to “serve” them.
Santa Barbara is most generous, AND MOST TOLERANT when it comes to providing resources to all the “homeless” including the panhandling street crowd of substance abusers. Transients far and wide know of Santa Barbara’s largess’. The vast majority of our true homeless are never seen, because they are already in shelter and recieving care and benefits in a number of very fine facilities.
The one area that is in need of improvement is the services provided to the now “non-dangerous” mentaly ill, who often cannot get a job if they wanted to, but have been turned out of institutions. Ironically the same people now complaining about their presence out in the general population are the same people who chastised the system that used to be in play, where law enforcement, probation and social services personnel could commit persons to involuntary confinement and treatment under the Welfare and Institutions Code, when they were deemed to be unfit to be on their own.
In addition the costs of such mental health institutional confinement and treatment skyrocketed as has the cost of all medical care in general, making involuntary commitment and treatment cost prohibitive. This is not unlike the law just passed turning prisoners out of jails and prisons to reduce the state and local jail costs and relieve the state’s budgetary crisis.
What clearly DOES NOT NEED TO BE DONE is for these self-righteous crusaders, many with a financial stake in the outcome or a desire for power and noteriety, to accuse the rest of us as being “murderers” or insensitive to the plight of the “homeless” when much is already being done for the “homeless” and it is hard to generate additional sympathy for someone who chooses the freedom of the streets and a lifestyle of substance abuse, panhandling, drug dealing, even theft and demmanding that others provide for their welfare.
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» on 01.27.10 @ 08:30 AM
The more services that the already way overdrawn public coffers provide for the homeless will only insure that these unfortunates permanently stay on the street AND increase in numbers. Look to the Salvation Army program in Carpinteria as the model of how to keep people dry in all senses of the term. The SB style of endless support is really just a cruel game of co-dependency.
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» on 01.27.10 @ 10:28 AM
UNION LOSES!
The News Press won its lawsuit.
Judge rules the News Press does not have to re-hire the fired employees.
Yay News Press!
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» on 01.27.10 @ 11:50 AM
To JAX, You have lots of opinions and criticisms. Why don’t you have the courage to give us your real name.
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» on 01.27.10 @ 12:38 PM
What’s it to ya? Many on here do not give their real names, because they are subject to on the job discrimination or grade discrimination for their opinions, especially conservatives with hate filled vindictive idealogue liberal bosses or professors. Why do you need to know someone’s name to make their opinion valid? What do you want to do with the information? Add it to the tyrannical free speech hating Democrat’s data base of “right wing” threats to their power?
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» on 01.27.10 @ 04:05 PM
Is this Mr. Butny of weather underground infamy?
What difference does it make what anyone’s name is on this site? You probably noticed most people here use a psuedo name or pen name.
Part of the reason for that is they do not want to engender retaliation from certain politically biased and vindictive folks. Surely you can relate to that! Look at the vengence the Chumash chairman and tribal government sought against Gail Marshal for relatively innocent remarks she made that were printed in a book written by a U.C.S.B. instructor. You must remember that!
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» on 01.27.10 @ 04:20 PM
If you are going to make hate-filled, bigoted comments about a group of people, at least have the courage to stand by your spilled bile by signing your name. Otherwise your not much more than a Cyber-White-Hood.
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» on 01.27.10 @ 04:28 PM
Hello and thanks for all your time and energy in addressing this critical concern.
You asked for donations of clothing, sleeping bags, blankets, socks, rain gear. I have things I would like to donate. Where do I take these items?????
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» on 01.27.10 @ 05:34 PM
John is Right?
Is that why you put your name on that last diatribe.
Point out what “hate filled, bigotted comments you see in anything I have ever posted”.
Your problem is the truth doesn’t fit your agenda and you don;t like it, so it is you that degenrates into hate filled name calling missives like what you just posted! (and of course you didn’t put YOUR NAME on your childish rant!
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» on 01.27.10 @ 07:43 PM
Buttny is an example of exactly WHY the homeless situation is getting worse in SB, not better. He has been paid over $100,000 over the past few years to “manage” the “so-called homeless Ten-year plan program. yet despite all the money poured into that plan and the non-profits who feed at the trough the best they can do is instigate a finger-pointing mob to shout “murderer” at the people who are dumping our tax dollars INTO that cesspool. Who thought of THAT brilliant strategy.
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» on 01.28.10 @ 07:39 AM
I don’t know how many “non-profits” are cashing in on the “homeless problem” but if they cannot whip up a furor and accuse everyone of “insensitivity”, “unthinking cruelty toward the lives of fellow man”, “bigotry and hatred” even “murderers”, how else are they going to keep the cash coming and silence anyone critical of their claimed efforts at “serving the homeless” (whoever they may be referring to by that description).
There are three or four groups mentioned in this article like the “Consumer Advocacy Coalition” and the “Uffizi Mission Project”. HUH? There are many more, some bona fide and volunteer efforts, others simply carving out another way to make money using sympathy and empathy for the generic population being called “homeless”.
The Red Cross has been trying to help as much as they are able to do so however much of their efforts must be triggered by a disaster declaration and guidelines to be established by the county for the opening of warming shelters.
In particular there must be notification from the various shelters that they are full. In this last spate of bad weather the Rescue Mission was not full and had 20 emergency overflow cots available, contrary to some of the claims being made by these “homeless advocates”.
As pointed out in some of the posts here, “homelessness” is a profitable business for some so-called “non-profits” who simply consume monies recieved for administrative expenses and the salaries and “expenses” of the directors and staff.
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» on 01.28.10 @ 09:04 AM
To Kathryn, Thanks for wanting to donate much needed items. Here are a few suggestions for places you could take the items to: Casa Esperanza, 816 Cacique St. 884-0173; Rescue Mission, 535 E. Yanonali St., 966-1316; and the Salvation Army,423 Chapala St., 962-0281.
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» on 01.31.10 @ 04:01 PM
go to http://www.countyofsb.org and read Supervisor Farr’s own letter on the agenda for Tuesday explain that the County already spends approximately $6.7 MILLION on local homeless services (and that’s just the County!!)! These fanatics make it sound like nobody’s doing anything.
Farr wants to expand services and get more of your money to help these people. Butney is just protecting his $80K job and wants to hire an “assistant”. I support social programs, but you people should get real.
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» on 02.01.10 @ 02:01 PM
Looks like we can see where John’s concern is, right.
Homelessness = $$$$$$ More homeless furor = more $$$$$$
Well at least he put his name on his comment so now maybe he will put how much money he is making from his concerns for the homeless in a comment?
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» on 02.02.10 @ 07:33 AM
In the name of linguistic efficiency and time-savings, through our irresponsible use of language we have systematically de-humanized other people who have no fortified dwelling place by allowing ourselves to describe those people first by their circumstances (‘homeless’) and then (if they are lucky enough) by occasionally describing them by what they are: people. This is backward. If anyone is truly interested in solving housing problems, the first step is to tell the truth—Describe people first by what they are—people—and then by their circumstances—“who have no homes”. Doing so publicly acknowledges the existence of human intrinsic dignity of these and all other human beings.
Any of us claiming to want to help people who have no homes must first clean up our language. In so doing we will be telling the truth, and *that* is the first step in making any kind of positive and lasting change for the wellbeing of any and every human being.
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