A rehash of a serial news People yammer about homeless
report that won an award.
'n'working poor,see Jail/near
free labor as a solution;
but is it that simple?
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by Joe B. Have you heard about KRON 4's Aptra Award-Winning Greg Lyon and other reporters show the worst side of the problems but if you notice not to many formally homeless folks and if they its a bootstrap bent. ‘Da Mayor, Newsom, and all the assorted blather of following New York’s solution of displacing people all away from sight far away making the problem “look solved” remember invisibility doesn’t solve this just as placing Band-Aids on a tiny scratch of Ebola infested flesh. It covered, looks like skin is healing but under the band-Aid its getting larger and soon the band-aid is covered by the bloody open sore. Graphic example but that’s what’s happening and showing this award winning film now at primary time is suspicious, stinks, and is crass. Making homeless, working poor, and mentally ill seem deviant Its strange how the out-of-work homeless people looking for jobs with alternative ideas along with homeless advocates are not listened to when their are multiple solutions to so call unlovable problems. The reason Mr. Newsom was shouted down at a new conference is because they’ve seen this rerun before. Centralized Systems are fine as long as there are links as with spokes in a wheel but having more than one wheel in one area. San Francisco in not New York certain systems will apply but not all. Newsom and the rest of the pol’s must get it through their heads that substance abuse is a smokescreen, most people on the streets now are not on drugs but need higher educational and technical skills not just work for works sake. If it were only work the people in yellow- green, orange street cleaning for the city would be full employee’s working regular days and hours. This “Jail ‘em, get ‘em out of sight, warehousing crap has been done already. As for mental cases on the street blame "Shining City On A Hill" Ronald Reagon for that problem. Office buildings, homes are closed while new expensive ugly colored achitectual prefab cement housing springs up everywhere, have they been to Oakland lately? It looks like a 'God Damn ‘Freakin ghost town! I don’t see many of the $10.000 a month of renters, renting office space, being rented out just lots of new, refurbished, or pristine empty buildings. Oakland looks like locusts have ravaged the place. Anyone looking at the Award Winning Anti-Homeless report who are, were, became homeless, jobless but now have jobs and a roof get groups together, mail by snail or email the news stations, ‘Pols and tell what solutions are possible. Do you think they will listen to solutions homeless, formally homeless, and their advocates have? Top down solutions are not working, bottom-up has limits as well. Obviously both groups must stop-drop preconceived, prejudicial, judgments, place their negative mindsets aside, come together and work on sets of multiple ongoing plans of preventing and making homelessness an obsolete construct and or concept. If I make any sense at all both groups should try this as an option. Bye. |