Showing posts with label Homeless Camps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homeless Camps. Show all posts
Sunday, December 6, 2015
NEZZI WADE - AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALTERNATIVES
TIMES STANDARD - TINY HOUSES - OPTIONS FOR HOUSES - AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALTERNATIVES full article
EXCERPT: The first-ever “Tiny House Expo” will be held Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 24 Fellowship Way. Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives is sponsoring this expo of small, affordable living units for the homeless in a village setting. It will feature Humboldt-made dwellings that can provide legal, safe, warm and dry places to sleep for those who need them.
Guests at the free expo can tour examples of tiny houses in a village set-up, temporary shelter/tent camps, car camping and more. Activities typical of community life in villages and camps will be part of the event, including a bike kitchen, solar-powered equipment, cottage industry demonstrations, animal kennels and writing groups.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
AS LOS ANGELES HOMELESS COUNT SOARS GARCETTI SAYS LET THE CAMPS ALONE!
LA TIMES - GARCETTI ON HOMELESS CAMPS
EXCERPT: The city of Los Angeles has 26,000 homeless residents, an increase of 12% over two years. Los Angeles County has the most homeless veterans in the country, and two-thirds of them, or 2,733, live in the city. The city’s homeless veteran population rose 6% in the last two years. ...
GARCETTI SAID:
“I strongly support the enactment of laws that enable the city to ensure that public areas are clean and safe,” he said in a statement released by a spokesman. But Garcetti said he decided the ordinances do “not adequately achieve the proper balance” between keeping the streets clean and protecting the rights of people “who have no other choice but to live on them.”
Proposed amendments would, among other changes, drop the misdemeanor penalty, eliminate medications and documents from the list of items that could be impounded and spell out when property is considered unattended.
EXCERPT: The city of Los Angeles has 26,000 homeless residents, an increase of 12% over two years. Los Angeles County has the most homeless veterans in the country, and two-thirds of them, or 2,733, live in the city. The city’s homeless veteran population rose 6% in the last two years. ...
GARCETTI SAID:
“I strongly support the enactment of laws that enable the city to ensure that public areas are clean and safe,” he said in a statement released by a spokesman. But Garcetti said he decided the ordinances do “not adequately achieve the proper balance” between keeping the streets clean and protecting the rights of people “who have no other choice but to live on them.”
Proposed amendments would, among other changes, drop the misdemeanor penalty, eliminate medications and documents from the list of items that could be impounded and spell out when property is considered unattended.
Monday, March 9, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR LEE OUTLINES PLAN TO MOVE ENTIRE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT INTO HOUSING - IN TEN DAYS!
SANFRANCISCO GATE - PLAN TO MOVE ENTIRE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS INTO HOUSING full article
EXCERPTS:
"One-stop help centers exist all over the U.S. — in San Francisco, there’s Project Homeless Connect, a 10-year-old effort to refer the homeless to job training, substance-abuse counseling and other programs that can pull them off the streets.
But what has never been tried is moving full encampments under one roof — dogs and couples and tents and all — and housing them there until permanent housing is found. The Navigation Center will be doing this as a pilot project for eight to 18 months, depending on its success.
The whole thing is a gamble of sorts, its creators admit. But for now, hopes are high.
“To have a newness to this, we have to have a sense that people actually will get help,” Lee told officials who came to tour the center, which the city Public Works Department just finished building out with dormitories, a laundry, counseling rooms, and pet and storage areas.
The center will be open 24 hours a day, but the idea is not just to provide an alternative spot to pitch a tent. By moving campers in as a group, the city hopes, they will trust the process more than many do in shelters, where, as Fairrer puts it, “you’re sleeping next to strangers and don’t know what to expect.”
The center is being funded by a $2 million anonymous donation funneled through the San Francisco Interfaith Council. An additional $1 million from the same donor is being used to help create what city planners hope will be 500 new supportive housing units — housing with counseling on-site — for the homeless by the end of the year.
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OUR COMMENT! EVERY CITY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEEDS A PLAN LIKE THIS and THE FUNDING. Shelters are time wasters. Even "lucky" people sometimes waste years of their lives expecting a shelter to get them permanent housing. Shelters take funds from the government and donations from corporations and individuals and use it for salaries of incompetents.
EXCERPTS:
"One-stop help centers exist all over the U.S. — in San Francisco, there’s Project Homeless Connect, a 10-year-old effort to refer the homeless to job training, substance-abuse counseling and other programs that can pull them off the streets.
The whole thing is a gamble of sorts, its creators admit. But for now, hopes are high.
“To have a newness to this, we have to have a sense that people actually will get help,” Lee told officials who came to tour the center, which the city Public Works Department just finished building out with dormitories, a laundry, counseling rooms, and pet and storage areas.
The center will be open 24 hours a day, but the idea is not just to provide an alternative spot to pitch a tent. By moving campers in as a group, the city hopes, they will trust the process more than many do in shelters, where, as Fairrer puts it, “you’re sleeping next to strangers and don’t know what to expect.”
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OUR COMMENT! EVERY CITY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEEDS A PLAN LIKE THIS and THE FUNDING. Shelters are time wasters. Even "lucky" people sometimes waste years of their lives expecting a shelter to get them permanent housing. Shelters take funds from the government and donations from corporations and individuals and use it for salaries of incompetents.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
TEAR DOWN THE HOMELESS CAMPS AND DISPERSE PEOPLE TO WHERE? 60 % INCREASE ON BANNING PUBLIC CAMPING SINCE 2011!
HUFFPOST - BANNING HOMELESS CAMPS JUST DISPERSES THE ISSUE by Mary Wisniewski for Reuters
EXCERPT: Across the United States, local governments are moving to prevent outdoor camping by the homeless, according to advocates for the nation's nearly 600,000 homeless, estimated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Government officials say they are trying to limit outdoor camping for the health and safety of the homeless and other residents. But homeless advocates say the bans are not a solution to homelessness and further stigmatize the poor. (What a joke!)
Over a third of U.S. cities impose citywide bans on public camping, a 60 percent increase in such ordinances since 2011, according to a 2014 survey of 187 cities by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.
More than half the cities surveyed, 57 percent, prohibit camping in certain public places. Such bans have climbed by 16 percent over the past three years, the study found.
EXCERPT: Across the United States, local governments are moving to prevent outdoor camping by the homeless, according to advocates for the nation's nearly 600,000 homeless, estimated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Government officials say they are trying to limit outdoor camping for the health and safety of the homeless and other residents. But homeless advocates say the bans are not a solution to homelessness and further stigmatize the poor. (What a joke!)
Over a third of U.S. cities impose citywide bans on public camping, a 60 percent increase in such ordinances since 2011, according to a 2014 survey of 187 cities by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.
More than half the cities surveyed, 57 percent, prohibit camping in certain public places. Such bans have climbed by 16 percent over the past three years, the study found.
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