re: Baton Rouge clears six homeless encampments

How about this as a solution: in order for a church to claim tax-free status, it has to supply housing and services to homeless people. They don't get to pick their homeless, either. The police bring them directly from the street to the church facility.

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you do this once and you tell them, we catch you again, and you're going to our homeless camp for 2 years.

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That's a heil of an idea there Adolf. About time someone offers the final solution to a problem.

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This isn't meant as an attack but the administrative overhead and impossibility of this solution is ludicrous.

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A different version of that suggestion is not as ludicrous as you might think.

Take a look at this “bunks for drunks” project in Seattle that has sustained success: LINK

One thing it does differently is addicts are allowed to use. This keeps them off of sidewalks where they can be more costly. Seattle gets its funding from donations and grants.

I wonder if Alamo Plaza hotel might agree to partner with a similar organization if it can deliver 90% occupancy? They can have an on-call transport vehicle that could operate like Uber - businesses summon them and pay them to entice homeless addicts to be relocated to 4 walls, meals, and a mattress.

What makes this program unique is it doesn’t require sobriety. One of the things that make this successful is these addicts get disgusted by other addicts and end up internalizing the fact that they are equally disgusting. They eventually become ready for sobriety.

We would eventually need to reintroduce public sanitariums that embrace involuntary commitments. Businesses might favor additional tax breaks for donating to such an endeavor. Staffing could be filled by liberal arts majors by paying them slightly more than what baristas make.

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tent city set up under the interstate overpasses in downtown Atlanta. A little toddler was standing all alone outside a tent barely a few feet from speeding traffic.
Baton Rouge currently would be hard pressed to top that.

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Yeah, I don’t need to reach rock bottom to know I would like to do anything to avoid hitting rock bottom.


The problem with BR and places just like it is that the leadership acts as if they are helpless in protecting their own citizens from being helpless themselves. It’s nauseating really, and it absolutely must change if there’s any hope for the future. Those are facts. Defeatism is what really rules here. .

From the litter covering the sides of roads to the bums and their tent cities, to the violent crime, to people flying down the streets at all hours of the day and night and nobody putting a stop to it.

The victim mentality must extend to our leaders as well as the citizens. Always the conquered, and never the conqueror, always the follower and never the leader.

There will always be those who want nothing more than to have everything given to them for putting forward the least amount of effort. They're willing to live in absolute squalor rather than do even the basics of caring for themselves.

For those types, frick 'em. Those are the types the local government should be able to force into mental health institutions as being a danger to themselves and the community around them. The older I get, the more I see the problem increasing (primarily due to "advocates" wanting to help them by trying to make the unreasonable see reason), the more jaded I get.

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They are trespassing on public/private land so the police do have a right to move them.

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No one has the right to trespass. That's the part that irritates more than anything.

Ship em to Austin

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Is BR to NO downtown worth the drive for 3 days a week of in the office?

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Lol! Do you not have internet at your house?
Typing this in my pjs

Homeless shelters shouldn't have so many rules. Defies the whole point of them.