Posted on 05/24/2020 9:28:10 PM PDT by rintintin
City crews are planning three large-scale clean-ups over the next week in areas where people experiencing homelessness have been camping.
In an email, city spokeswoman Nancy Kuhn said the first would be Thursday along the Platte River around the intersection of 29th Street and Arkins Court, near the Salvation Army’s Crossroads shelter in Five Points. Kuh said clean-ups also were scheduled next Tuesday along Glenarm Place from 21st Street to Park Avenue West in Five Points and Wednesday around the intersection of Washington Street and East 13th Avenue near Saint John’s Cathedral in Capitol Hill.
“We are seeing the areas become increasingly hazardous, in addition to encumbering the public right of way, and want to keep everyone safe,” Kuhn said. “At this time, due to the COVID-19 crisis, once each specific area is cleaned, people experiencing homelessness may return to the cleaned area, if they choose to do so.”
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Has homelessness become more of a problem since Colo legalized pot?
“People experiencing homelessness”. Sheesh. Crazy bums, no?
Why do they say people experiencing homelessness? It sounds like an awkward word choice to me. We aren’t supposed to say homeless people? Instead we’re supposed to say that people are having a homeless experience? But we aren’t supposed to say the people involved are homeless?
Since they said “people experiencing hopelessness” twice, I’m assuming that that is a conscious decision made on the part of newspaper people to describe this population who live on the streets.
So what’s the deal? They are going to hose down old feces and garbage, but then let people get right back in there and befoul the area again????
I think they are cleaning up so that the “people experiencing homelessness” don’t also experience the “European virus”.
Someone should make a glossary of all these terms.
Personally, I don’t think it’s tied to pot. Denver has always been a popular homeless spot, go back to the 40’s and Kerouac was writing about it. We’ve been in mostly boom times since the 90’s and a hard shift leftward since the ‘oughts - both of those combined mean a rise in bums.
I’ve been working downtown the last 7 years and it’s gotten to the point I try not to if I don’t have to. Property crime is up, there’s feces and needles all over the streets and you step over bodies aggressively begging to get anywhere. I drive to my office, drive to my gym, than home to the ‘burbs.
Because the meme of the left the last few years is “we’re all just one step away from homelessness”. This plays into that theme “they didn’t do anything wrong, they’re just experiencing homelessness. YOU COULD BE NEXT”
It’s all BS leftist word games
I was old the correct term is Urban Outdoor Persons. Seriously.
“They are going to hose down old feces and garbage, but then let people get right back in there and befoul the area again????”
Yes. They call it “compassion”.
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“Why do they say people experiencing homelessness? It sounds like an awkward word choice to me. “
“Yes. They call it “compassion”.”
If they were really compassionate, they would buy them all new shopping carts.
The homeless problem this country is experiencing now is going to seem like a nothing burger compared to what the Covid-Panic is about to cause.
“Clean ups”??
Flea dips, lysol showere??
Wait until the enhanced unemployment goes away and evictions are allowed. According to a tenant rights eviction lawyer in Boulder County, a little over 50,000 eviction cases are ready to go once the eviction moritorium is lifted and courts are re-opened in that county alone.
Property Management companies have been already using collection agencies to get past due rent owed - even before the courts open back up.
So people will get flattened. Evicted and a judgement/ court-ordered garnishment on their record.
Colorado was already going into the bong water.
Undomiciled has been gaining traction.
“According to a tenant rights eviction lawyer in Boulder County, a little over 50,000 eviction cases are ready to go once the eviction moritorium is lifted and courts are re-opened in that county alone.”
That seems to me an entirely stupid thing for landlords to do. Who do they think is going to give them three months rent and move in after they kick out their current renters?
Seems to me it would be much smarter to just tell their current renters to pay extra until they catch up.
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