They Left This Man Passed Out Next To A Business….

@Fungirlmmm There's rarely any funds to even help them these days, even if there was some hope with the lack of knowledge and Recources... They will continue to go back. This is how economy work these days with little options.

@FreestyleArt They have funds, and a lot of churches and individuals here donating to the charities. They even build a building next to the main homeless shelter-food kitchen that serves as a small FREE grocery store. People can get a cart and get what they need, there are limits on each type of item depending on how many family members but it’s all free for them. There are small walk up food pantries where anyone can bring food and donate, all a person has to do is go to them and get the food, TP etc. They also have a small laundromat that is free, a tiny home village if they qualify and are willing to get on the waiting list and abide by rules, look for work and let a social worker help council them with budgeting etc. Those tiny homes are fully furnished (including cleaning supplies, linens, etc.) for each person who moves in them, and they will be saving their money up to move in an apartment after one year. I tell you that they have a lot of money, but the more they do the more are being sent here. A good percentage of them, probably half are transients who have no interest in doing anything to make their situation better. They have an entitlement attitude and are rude to the locals. Ruining parks where families bring their children among other things.

@Fungirlmmm If they camp on private or government property and the city has to remove the encampment and trash etc. and are told to not come back they will sometimes do it especially wooded or isolated areas like around the river. There are lawmakers wanting to make a law that if they come back and build back the encampment and the police are called out again that they can be arrested if they don’t accept help that the city’s social workers will provide them to get out of their situation. It has become a sanitation issue and there are fears of diseases such as hepatitis and flesh-eating bacteria being spread by these encampments due to no bathroom facilities, rotting foods, manure accumulating from any dogs that they have on the site etc. Not to mention the huge expenses that are having to be paid for removal of trash and waste. It cost the city over $50,000 to remove one camp about a mile from here in the older part of the city a couple years ago. It was a wooded out and many tons of waste and trash was removed. The property owner was elderly and had gotten police to make them leave previously but they would always come back. He signed his property over to the city and they are planning to eventually make a park out of the large lot. All of the underbrush was removed and there is a very tall fence around the area now.