Giant Homeless Encampments Set to Explode Across US
America First Report, September 21, 2022
Worsening inflation (stemming from endless fiat
currency money printing) is causing food, energy and housing to become
unaffordable for millions of Americans, putting them on a trajectory of
homelessness and destitution. Right now, homeless encampments are
expanding in cities like Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Oakland.
The situation is bound to get far worse as inflation accelerates and
people find themselves jobless due to plummeting economic activity while
manufacturers downsize operations.
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Police calls drop 30% around Vancouver’s first Safe Stay
First pallet shelter community so
successful, city looking to open more sites
Columbian, August 23, 2022
In spring of 2021, after a few months sleeping in their car, Sharon
and Jerry moved into a homeless encampment in east Vancouver’s North
Image neighborhood. Sharon, 59, is a veteran who served in the U.S. Army
Reserve for 10 years. She and Jerry, 58, are both disabled, struggling
with back and hip problems. The married couple have been homeless for
about two years. For much of that time, they didn’t know where to turn.
They lived in the encampment for about 8 months. They felt unsafe in
their tent, due to both crime and extreme weather conditions.
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Open House Ministries realizes 'God block' in Vancouver with
affordable housing plan
An organization that helps homeless people find a
new way in life is writing its next chapter. Open House Ministries is
about to build affordable housing.
KGW News, Aug 3, 2022
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Open House Ministries
has always tried to be "full-service" when it comes to getting people
out of homelessness. Now they're going to add long-term affordable
housing, and they found a place to do it right across the street from
their existing Vancouver campus. The location is a parking lot now, but
it had an old house on it when a generous donor gave the property to Open
House Ministries. In about 18 months, a new four-story building will
stand at the corner of 12th and Jefferson — built for people, including
many families, who are ready to move on from the non-profit's long-term
shelter. “We've always joked about having a 'God block' and we just keep
expanding. We're trying to meet the needs of our community, and this
seems to be a huge need,” said Open House Ministries Executive Director
Renee Stevens.
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CC Republican Women Sherriff Forum, 4/20/2022
Facebook video, homelessness comments
begin 1:01:30
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Tucker Carlson: Homelessness is a manufactured crisis
Jan 19, 2022
Tucker examines the cause and
solutions to the homeless crisis in America. Highlights include: “No
matter what they tell you, homelessness is not an act of God. It’s not
the result of economic collapse in this country, America did not run out
of housing.” “Instead, a determined group of well-funded ideologues
decided to make it easier to live on the streets in this country while
doing drugs.” “Therefore, many more people now live on the streets while
doing drugs.” “Luxury apartments are just the beginning. Seattle’s most
recent municipal budget allocates more than $150 million to other
so-called homelessness programs, just this year. Now, keep in mind
Seattle has fewer than 750,000 people living there, so that’s an awful
lot of money per bum. It’s certainly a lot more than anyone else is
getting in Seattle. At the same time it was giving overpriced condos to
drug addicts. Seattle allocated just $10 million total for its small
business stabilization fund, designed to keep family businesses from
going bankrupt during the covid lockdowns.”
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Portland Business Owner Shutting Down Over “Progressive” Policies
Delivers Heartfelt Rebuke
Liberty Daily, Jan. 18, 2022
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Shocking Video Of Philadelphia Homelessness
Twitter, Sept 2021
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Prager University
Video: What Do We
Do About the Homeless?, July 5, 2021
Homelessness is one of the most vexing public
policy problems we face. If you live in a big city, especially on the
West Coast, you literally face it every day. And every day, it seems to
get worse. Why? And what can we do about it? Christopher Rufo, Senior
Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has answers.
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Vancouver homeless encampment fire sparks concerns
KATU, May 31, 2021
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Massive flames lit up the
midnight sky in Vancouver after a fire broke out at a populated homeless
camp in east Vancouver. The fire started just after 12 a.m. Monday, near
Northeast 112th and 51st Street. Vancouver fire crews were just minutes
away and say when they arrived, flames were 40 to 50 feet tall,
engulfing a wooded area that was populated with dozens of homeless
campsites. Luckily, everyone made it out safe but fire crews tell KATU
it was an obstacle getting to the actual fire.
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Vancouver weighs launching ‘supported campsite’
program for the homeless
Small, city-endorsed sites would aim to
increase security and services for unhoused
Columbian, May 24, 2021
Vancouver city councilors
voiced their approval for a plan that would create several formal,
supported campsites around the city for people experiencing
homelessness. The idea is to create temporary and safe spaces for
unhoused people where they can find some stability, Jamie Spinelli,
Vancouver’s homeless resources coordinator, told the city councilors
during their meeting Monday afternoon. In addition to helping residents
access health, employment and housing services, the supported campsites
would also help mitigate some of the community impacts of homelessness
such as trash, sanitation and crime, she said ...
5/24/2021 Workshop - Vancouver
Homelessness Plan, Attachments:
Memo
Presentation
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Apr 2021
Portland, Oregon Homelessness Video
On Facebook, one minute
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Apr 2021
Homelessness In America: What Should We Do
CURE Policy Briefing | November 2019
Summary
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Mental illness and substance abuse are leading causes of
homelessness in America.
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Homeless policy must be two-pronged. One, we need local law
enforcement regimes that discourage rather than encourage
homelessness. Two, we need social welfare policies that get to the
core of the problem.
More ...
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April 2021
In Our View: Time for city to move on from Navigation Center
Columbian.com
The rocky history of the
Navigation Center – the city of Vancouver’s effort to serve unhoused
people – offers numerous lessons. Providing services for a needy
population and balancing that with the concerns of neighborhood
residents is a difficult task, and the attempt should guide future
policy.
Vancouver moves ahead with sale of Navigation Center
Columbian.com
Vancouver will
move forward with the sale of its day shelter for the homeless, the city
council decided Monday, and begin negotiations with Fort Vancouver
Regional Libraries staff looking to purchase the facility and transform
it into its new headquarters.
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Metro-area churches, elected officials will launch
'Season of Service'
The Columbian
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Vancouver city officials will join with
representatives of the metropolitan area's
church community today to announce a
collaboration of civic, business and religious
entities to bring a "Season of Service" and a
world-class music festival to the
Vancouver-Portland area.
The event is sponsored
by the Luis Palau Association, a Christian
evangelical organization with offices in
Beaverton, Ore.
The launch of the
project will be at 12:30 p.m. today at Cedar
Mill Bible Church, 12208 N.W. Cornell Road in
Portland, said Craig Chastain, director of
public relations and media for the Palau
association.
Vancouver's
Neighborhood Coordinator Judi Bailey will join
more than 600 pastors and church leaders, Camas
Mayor Paul Dennis, Portland City Commissioners
Erik Sten and Sam Adams, Gresham, Ore., Mayor
Shane Bemis and Beaverton Mayor Rob Drake to
hear an outline of the program designed by Palau
and other partners, Chastain said in a press
release.
Full article at:
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/02/02122008_Metro-area-churches-elected-officials-will-launch-Season-of-Service.cfm
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Council to
study fund to help homeless families
by Alice Perry
Linker
The Reflector staff reporter
Sept 5, 2007
A Woodland agency
that works with low-income families and people
who need help finding homes has asked for a
portion of city document recording fees.
The Community Services Center, 736 Davidson,
Woodland, has asked the city council to sign an
agreement that would allow the non-profit
organization to tap into fees designed to help
those who are homeless.
A state law requires counties and cities to set
aside a total of $18 from each document
recording fee to fund programs that help
low-income and homeless people, said Melissa
Taylor of the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of
Governments (CWCOG).
Sixty percent of the designated funds is awarded
to cities. Most of the money must be used for
housing, although one fund allows money for
services to help homeless people, she said.
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Dignity Village
From
Wikipedia
Dignity Village is
a city-recognized encampment of
homeless
people in
Portland, Oregon,
United States.
In the days before
Christmas of 2000, a group of homeless
people in Portland succeeded in establishing
a
shanty town
which garnered a great deal of both
opposition and support, and quickly evolved
from a group of self-described "outsiders"
who practiced
civil disobedience,
to a self-regulating, city-recognized "campground"
as defined by Portland city code.
Full Article at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity_Village
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Bill Passed to Protect Homeless
Citing Attacks, Senators Vote to Add Group to
Hate Crimes Law
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 7, 2007; Page B04
The Senate approved a
bill yesterday that would make Maryland the
second state to add homeless people to the
groups protected under hate crimes laws.
The legislation was
approved 38 to 9 after a brief but pointed
debate over whether ample evidence existed
that homeless people are being targeted for
crimes. Some critics also said the measure
watered down the original hate crimes law by
adding another group.
Under current law,
violators are subject to additional
penalties if their crime is motivated by
another person's race, color, religious
beliefs, sexual orientation or national
origin.
Sen. Alex X. Mooney
(R-Frederick) said he thought homeless
people should be included under the law,
based on numerous attacks reported across
the country. Maine passed a similar measure
last year.
The bill goes to
the House of Delegates for approval.
"Maryland has made
it clear they are going to have the policy
of hate crimes [laws]. Going right along
with that, it's only fair to include
vulnerable groups in our society," Mooney
said.
Nationally, attacks
on homeless people have been on the rise.
The National Coalition for the Homeless
recorded 142 incidents last year, up from 86
in 2005 and the most since the survey began
in 1999. The group has recorded two attacks
in Maryland in the past three years; one
resulted in a death.
Full story at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030600942.html
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