I hate this news story. If I wasn’t living in this community (Douglas county) I would think it’s a good story. However, Douglas county has massive NIMBY policies, including outlawing everything that would allow someone experiencing homelessness anywhere near here. No homeless shelters are legal, no sleeping outside is legal, hell even weed stores are illegal in this massive county, despite it being legal in the majority of the state. Douglas county also created its own health department in protest of mask and vaccine mandates. It’s a very affluent deeply conservative pocket in Colorado that makes me sick.
Maybe it’s time to get started with local politics. Not saying run for city council, but most local issues are done because a very bored minority go to a lot of council meetings. Maybe it’s time to start going and showing that not everybody agrees
So what happens if you try to sleep outside? Do the cops pick you up and bring you to a shelter where they provide a bed, meals, and a roommate named Bubba who thinks you’re purdy?
Conservatives are so short sighted - this is just giving handouts with extra hands and limited humanity.
That’s probably exactly what happens. Or they get a bus ticket to the nearest big city that does have some services, after which conservatives can rail about how the city has become a hellhole that’s full of homeless people.
Did you read the article? The actual details of the program are pretty far from what you say here. Don’t have time to bullet point at the moment but please trust me and just take a full look. As someone with deep personal experience around this issue, their method might be a genuine answer to the problem, when properly scaled. Not the first time a plan like theirs has been tried either; Olympia, WA has a similar program for direct outreach.
Did you?
They spent almost $3 million in helping 37 people in 2 years (that’s $81,000 a pop) with very vague “getting them help”. Very much looks like most of what they do is ship them to out of county
Since HEART has launched, the county has engaged with roughly 215 people on the street, according to the commissioner.
So in 2 years they spent $3 million dollars to “help” 215 people. And the article is very vague and full of euphemisms that make me suspect they’re just pushing them out to Denver.
Wait till you read about “crime free housing”
Enacts a bunch of draconian bullshit that cause homeless to move 10 miles away
“We fixed homelessness!”
This is a MUCH better use of Taxpayer Dollars then spending only a FRACTION of that on Sheltering and Rehabilitating the Homeless!
Wow, talk about someone who didn’t really read the article.
It’s been stated that they made a department that specifically assesses homeless people and help get them to services that they need.
Looking at other sources, it looks like they’re shipping them to other counties. Now they’re homeless somewhere else. How heartwarming.
That’s kind of funny actually. The don’t want the homeless so they just ban the homeless. Talk about sticking your head in the sand.
