Part 1: The new permanent supportive housing complex for the homeless is scheduled to open next spring. Will resident and neighborhood councils prevent problems?
This seems to be progress on addressing the needs of people who have fallen through the cracks, large ones, in our society’s ability to accommodate the needs of everyone. IMO, part of the requirement for any resident is to first get addiction and sexual abuse therapy. Alcoholics, cocaine and opioid dependent people, and sexual abusers (this, to me, includes sex workers) should simply not be allowed amongst the inhabitants. They should be provided separate homes in a more controlled environment, with medical and addiction therapy staff on duty at all times.
Those meeting those requirements should not be subjected to such a controlled environment.
Education and job training, along with job referral programs, should also be a part of this. Programs enabling them to create,their own businesses would also be helpful, as getting jobs is not easy for most of us.
Homelessness is a dynamic problem requiring dynamic solutions. Just giving a place to live has not worked. This plan sounds like a step in the right direction, to me.
This seems to be progress on addressing the needs of people who have fallen through the cracks, large ones, in our society’s ability to accommodate the needs of everyone. IMO, part of the requirement for any resident is to first get addiction and sexual abuse therapy. Alcoholics, cocaine and opioid dependent people, and sexual abusers (this, to me, includes sex workers) should simply not be allowed amongst the inhabitants. They should be provided separate homes in a more controlled environment, with medical and addiction therapy staff on duty at all times.
Those meeting those requirements should not be subjected to such a controlled environment.
Education and job training, along with job referral programs, should also be a part of this. Programs enabling them to create,their own businesses would also be helpful, as getting jobs is not easy for most of us.
Homelessness is a dynamic problem requiring dynamic solutions. Just giving a place to live has not worked. This plan sounds like a step in the right direction, to me.