It's a sad situation. But also I think some of these people just don't want to go by the rules in the shelters. In these campsites they can do whatever they want and get away with it.
this is an issue in Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Reno, Phoenix and Tucson (from my personal experience). we will not fix this without fundamentally fixing our society. we are sick, and no amount of political posturing is going to fix these issues.
We will not fix it without destroying the lives of the rich and making a return to their normal lives impossible. The lawyers, the realtors, the politicians, the celebrities, and the born wealthy all need to have their lives ruined and we need to refuse to help them in any way. Let them starve on the corners. You want to fix the problem, make it a problem for the people that created it.
So, according to the guy they interviewed, the new shelter is too clean and organized (and it doesn't allow drugs. alcohol or weapons). Unfortunately the lesson learned after so many of the same failures, is that the only way to eliminate the homeless "problem" is to bulldoze their camps and send them packing to the next "Camp Hope". Sadly, that seems like the ONLY effective thing. And "fixing our society" is just pie-in-the-sky do-gooder empty rhetoric. How does one "fix society"?
Don’t listen to to ANYTHING Seattle or LA has to say about homelessness. They are the example of failure. Let’s find cities with the least homelessness and replicate them.
I’ve lived here for 52 years. I’ve never seen it this bad. “They” (the owner of the land?) should have never let it get this bad. There’s not many places for people to go who have mental issues & or drug problems. Something must be done.
The cities, counties, and states are not the parents of the homeless people. Many of the homeless can go work if illegals come and make it in the USA so can the homeless. The homeless just want to be lazy and babied an do nothing to earn their keep, go ask them. This homeless problem has been around for years got worse because of being babied and more money put into it.
the problem is is that they don't want any rules and you can't have a group of people just living somewhere with no rules. If they want a place to stay then they need to follow rules otherwise they really don't want it that badly so they should have to move on. Everyone has to follow rules where they live and they should have to also.
Jewels helping hands needs to be shut down!!! She is a big reason for a lot of this! I worked for the shelters and she did drugs with the homeless and sold drugs to them all the time! She acts like she’s helping but she definitely is not!!!!
Wow, very interesting! A shelter is encouraging the homeless to use drugs? Where is this place located? Edit - Wow! "Jewels Helping Hands responds to threats to clear Camp Hope" This is like the beginning of Portland or Seattle's CHOP!
I'm planning a lawsuit against her. I was trying to sell my home, but not one buyer would even consider it. She chose that site because she would not get many repercussions. I became good friends with the highway dept. guy assigned to clean up their mess. he said, and i quote " we called the city to remove these trespassers and they said it wasn't their problem". and now the city says its the highway dept.'s fault. BULLSHIT. So let's get rid of this "homeless" label. these people are still here a year later. Let's call them for what they really are: 1: PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT TO PAY RENT. 2: PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT TO GET A JOB (there are dozens of "help wanted" signs within a mile of that camp.) 3: PEOPLE THAT CAN'T PASS A PRE-EMPLOYMENT DRUG TEST. 4: etc, etc, etc.... By the way, i live right by the camp, and i don't see ANY families there. OH, YEAH.... When i camp on state land, it costs me $18 or more per day. why doesn't Jewels pay my mortgage????
Yes! The officials know what’s going with her and they pretend they don’t know! I watched it with my own eyes when I worked for the shelters! She needs to be stopped she is a huge reason this is happening. Go down and ask any homeless person about her they will tell you she is an addict herself and she supplies the homeless with drugs while taking their ssi checks to pay for those drugs. She is a piece of work! The officials know this including our mayor!
First of all. How do you fools think homelessness will ever be solved without First addressing the Main issues. Mental illness and drug addiction. Get this through your brains to solve those issues First then you need to build affordable houses instead of bs looking over the spokane river.
That's the thing they don't want a job like literally everywhere in Spokane is hiring they can walk in and get a job immediately it's just they can't cuz they're not clean and they choose not to be
Can't help folks who don't wanna be helped, I'm sure not all of the decline but plenty will to keep this camp the way it is. Same thing in Santa Cruz, they'll just move it every 6months.
Not everyone that's homeless is due to drugs and prostitution. And even if they are you guys do nothing to help people and then turn around and say the most disgraceful stuff.
I honestly don’t understand this mindset. Why have any laws if anyone could just argue well people will just not obey them anyway. If you really want to solve a problem we are going to have to realize that if they are not going to work willingly we have to make them. We somehow managed to throw people in jail for having an ounce of weed on them but we can’t make homeless people pick up trash on the streets? Just be honest nobody wants to do anything about it. If people wanted to fix this problem we would have it done in a matter of a couple of years.
@@jordanwhite8718 you don't understand that mindset because you've never dealt with these people. You think it's everyone elses problem.... these people outright CHOOSE to live like this.... They don't want to change or accept help. Maybe speak(or attempt to) some of them..... I find it easy to spot those who don't come out of their bubble and experience what these people are.
@@mattbarker1411 Are used to ride the bus in downtown Seattle so I have a pretty good idea of who these people are. Most of them are just down on their luck drug addicts or people who should be in a mental health institution. We can all think Ronald Reagan for them not getting any help. When people are in situations like that they probably feel like they don’t deserve help, or they just don’t know how to get help. And like I said before if we had this attitude about murderers and rapists the world would be a much worse place. I am sick and tired of this attitude that because people don’t want to work we should just let them live in filth and make everyone else’s life worse. Sometimes you have to give people Toughlove in order to make them do better.
@@shannonlewis3687 yeah living paycheck to paycheck choosing between rent and their next weeks worth of meals, not to mention things like their car breaking down. People are struggling to pay rent and live now that rent is over 50% of your paycheck. Those “Hard Working people” are barely keeping their heads above water nowadays. That’s not living, not while people say things like “they’re fine”. We are not fine. Most of us are 2 bad financial months away from homelessness. god forbid any of us get sick or break a leg in this fucking country without insurance
@@gudematcha You describe the majority of my life and it didn't change until I did more than anyone else to change my situation. Depend on nothing and no one. Determine your own future. We can always do more when we try. If we stop given people excuses to sit on their rearends with their hands out, they will stand on their own feet
@Dragonkin57 Spokane has over 300 available beds at shelters. The people who are at camp hope are there because they either do not want to follow the rules of shelters like not being there under the influence or they enjoy the lifestyle. Believe it or not some of them don't want any help. Instead we allow a over run camp full of drugs that is causing mass crime in the area to continue uncontrolled actually hurting members of the community.
How do you expect us to get jobs without proper shelter, hygiene, clothing, ID, social security card, or birth certificates? Experience homeless before making assumptions.
Perhaps someone should arrest drug user and sellers, make people that can work actually get a job, and kick them off when they try to set up tents. Police need to arrest folks they see breaking the law, not babysitting the homeless camp. I was homeless for a year and a half. I managed to throw out my garbage in a receptacle, find a rest room, and didn’t steal from anyone. I worked toward a more stable home life. I am also disabled so don’t give me the BS about they can’t work.
Take notes from Portland.. Don't decriminalize drugs and don't make it legal for them to camp anywhere they want. Do what nobody else seems to want to do- Crack down on mental illness and drug addiction. Until then, nothing will change.
You can't make a post and change do you deal with addiction problems and this is also America when we first came here we camped anywhere we could because we will desperate to get away
@@zackting622 it couldn't hurt. At least we're thinking and talking about possible solutions. I believe that's more than what most of the "elected officials" are doing. The crazy thing is, they have the actual opportunity to make a difference with funding, yet continue to just talk about the problems. There's more pay for them, the longer they can "discuss" the problematic issues. What we need to do, is find out how to get the funding, so we can actually get a ball rolling. I have had it with the talks and discussions. So, tell me. How do I get the funding to start fixing the problems?
@@jacobnapkins1155 those who have real solutions are sent to jail as "combatants". There is no such thing as "war on drugs". With a title of "War", they get the government funding. Money is what they desire. Next to come, is the 'War on Homelessness".
That fence is a joke. You think thieves are going to let a stupid fence stop them. They climb them all the time. Or they cut them. Fo a quick in out. Then they have a place to go to And next to no one goes.
I've live in Spokane for my whole life. I just moved to Florida and I'm astonished at how Spokane a small city with a huge economy manages this. While these huge cities with basic economies look like the south hill on steroids
Affordable housing is not the problem . Rent can be 1 dollar a month but the drug addict will rather spend it on drugs . As for the shelter the majority don’t wanna be in them because of the rules. They rather be marauders and steal and be free to do drugs and not follow any rules .
Maybe if psych pills worked they wouldn't be taking other drugs. Also they legalize cannabis but won't let you smoke it anywhere. The rules are so strict in my apartment that they want to kick me out just for company having a pipe in their pocket. There is no smoking going on inside my place but this is what they are trying to make as rules for apartment living.
Ummmm no. Most are mentally ill in the first place. If we had a stray dog out on the street we would pick them up to incarcerate them for treatment. Why can't we pick these people up, assess their needs and get them treatment Regardless if they want it or not? It is the humane thing to do. I know. The city Let my son die on the streets 4months ago despite my calls for help for years.
Why does Jewels Helping Hands sound sketchy???? I remember when they set up a “warming”shelter at the Women’s Club on the South Hill after Julia got the keys to the building without having a contract in place. Someone needs to audit them to see exactly where the money is going. Certainly, JHH would want to ensure that there are homeless people to “service” so they can continue getting paid by the city/state. Talk about a conflict of interests.
the bus ticket should be back to there home town. But on the foot if we had a old ghost town with land to grow there own crops. And only the ones that had income coming in they could start there own town. There would have to be help but this way the whole burden would not be on spokane. Because what's going on now is not working.
I like the concept of relocating the homeless people to any abandoned ghost towns that have no one living there; and as long as the homeless people have some sorts of income they can live in those abandoned ghost towns; and they can grow their own foods; and the local utility companies can provide all the electricity they need!
@@drewchorlton342 It's a never ending cycle, thieve and rob for a fix and repeat the next day. Steal from the local residents and encourage black market drug dealing well here soon they're all going to have to migrate to California because the weather will kill you very quick up here in the NW and these people that migrate here just don't understand that for some reason.
In Orange county California they moved hundreds of homeless people off the Santa Ana River. And all the authorities really accomplished was to distribute homeless people all over Orange county. Instead of congregating on the Santa Ana River next to Angel stadium most of them now live on the sidewalks at major street intersections. Large numbers of homeless are living on the sidewalks around Disneyland and Knott's Berry farm. Some ended up in Huntington Beach by the pier. There are large numbers of homeless at the Newport transportation Center in Newport Beach. It doesn't do any good to just chase them around from one place to another telling the homeless, "well you don't have to leave but you can't stay here".
Spokane Sheriff's needs to do what the Sheriff's in Snohomish County did ! They made a plan to get homeless people off the streets. They got the homeless people into treatment centers, even drove them their and after treatment they picked them up and drove them to their new homes. City VOUCHERS paid for their rent for 6 Mos until they could find jobs to get back on their feet.
@@jilliebean343 in our town we have druggie deadbeats who don't want all that. Instead they'll make kid forts behind the McDonald's that's close to the river Watch my video I uploaded of the McDonald's
Here's an idea! Let's actually put the "corrections" into our corrections facilities! Instead of flat out detaining addicts as criminals and leaving rehab or drug court incentives to the order of a court to which said self destructive person's only consequence is a frivolous warrant, let's actually force drug courts. Let's establish real rehabilitation and distinguish between that of a criminal and that of an addict, like they have done so successfully in many other developed countries! This hasn't necessarily resulted in an end to addiction within those countries but has decreased its presence immensely which has decreased criminal population overall. They've closed down more buildings for prison than they have opened said rehab camps. The most measurable and referencable country I could refer to is the Netherlands for those wondering. It's the same idea that coined the phrase treat addiction like a disease rather than a crime which many have taken literally rather than figuratively. It really just means don't treat it like a crime. Nothing about the system is meant to move people into better conditions and every person whom spoke (including the mayor) is a perfect example of this; they want them to move but they will bring the same problems wherever they go in spokane. So they're not solving anything at all. Homelessness is much older of an issue than camp hope has existed and nothing was done by either the state or city with such haste, it's a pr war of whose going to be to blame. It's always been the city no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Not saying the states done any better tho. They're not on the ground making the decisions to yield the results they're demanding.
Decrimalize all drugs! Seriously no one should be a criminal for using drugs especially vets with PTSD, the war on drugs only exists today because puritans want minorities off the streets
Why doesn't the city have a system for they're sewage? After 10 months.. but you'll gross out the neighbors.. and pay to puck it up.. and de real.. the cops along with the homeless into neighborhood not freeing up any law enforcement. Or city resources!
Supposedly a woman at the camp dope got raped but Julie Garcia didn't care about it & law enforcement did nothing about it really pathetic if this happened
THEIRS DRUG ADDICTS THAT LIVE HOUSES, APTS, CONDOS , FANACY PALACE. THEIR ARE ALSO PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR JOBS THRU NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN AND LOST THEIR HOMES. THESE ARE HUMAN --BEINS.
Nowadays street homeless and are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. Street encampments are open air drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. Majority of them will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. Second hand fentanyl smoke can easily kill you in no time. Street homeless gradually destroy everything around themselves. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets. If they can afford, they smoke fentanyl up to 100 times a day. That's how all these fires are started. Homeless advocates are mentally stuck in Pathological Altruism, and all they do is enabling fentanyl addicts remain as close as possible to their fentanyl source.
The People who's complaining needs to start Demanding solutions from these Leaders they vote into Office who's Aware of this Crisis and there are Obvious Solutions. Rent is too High. Do something about it
I challenge all local landscape and construction companies to offer equipment to clean it up I offer my 7k dump trailer a skid steer and a my back hoe , let's start cleaning this up since the adults have left the chat
Here's a crazy idea. The city and local employers work together to create employment, be it garbage collection, farm help etc. Give the homeless the option of going to rehab, mental health services or work. If not incarceration for public terrorism would be a last option. I'm all for helping those in need and in my dealings with addicts find that enabling self destructive behavior is not a solution
With the jail over flowing, and the catch and release policy on non violent crimes, it's not gonna work, specially when about 50% of the ppl currently homeless don't wanna work. It's a catch 22
To everyone who helped create this camp including the tow companies Ozzie fine them all until they are out-of business they helped this situation by dumping trash on tax payers property we own thay property the tax payers not the leeches
💯 facts sick of the bullcrap 💩 they live in my neighborhood like 🪳 cockroaches that keep coming because Washington state politicians/lawmakers has given keys to the city for purging whenever they want to with condoning drugs/crime they don't want rehab or mental health counseling plus the fact that all the towing companies sold people in camp dope RV's that don't run for $1 dollars they would haul them to the camp
How did the camp get so big ?? One of the problems is landlords raising rents so high that many long term tenants were rented out of their homes. Case in point a 50 year old woman had lived in her apartment for 12 years until her landlord raised her rent by $350 a month. She now has to live in her car. She rents a motel room a couple of times a week so she can shower and sleep in a bed. This woman works like some of the many homeless now. That Trent shelter is disgusting. It has bedbugs. The porta-potties have overflowed. When it got cold the water pipes froze. Just amess.
What it takes to live in the REAL World is something that SHOULD be taught in Schools. Nothing that is being taught teaches anyone how to know the laws, buy a house, keep a job...school curriculums do not focus on how to be a successful adult. All these non profits focus on teaching people how to manage money they don't have. Why aren't these non profits focused on keeping people employed? Stop letting these Employers fire people over issues THEY should be addressing with every employee and wanting to help, instead they don't care that you gotta be there for your sick kids or your car broke down and you don't have the money to fix it. What is wrong with employers today? Ask ALL them homeless people and BET they all tell you they were fired.
How about affordable housing? I was homeless for 18 months because I couldn't afford rent. Not because I have mental health issues or drug dependency issues. Unfortunately, I was not considered for housing programs because I did not fit into either category. They aren't addressing the issues because no one is forcing them to. When I finally did get subsidized housing, I lost it because I was admitted to the hospital. It's a never ending struggle to maintain housing. That is the problem. Now, I am in an adult family home because that state has determined I am unable to care for myself. Consider yourself lucky. At least you can make decisions for yourself.
Why do we as tax payers need to invest in shelters and low income housing for people who are clearly not really concerned about doing the right thing? Why is the answer constantly, that, the people who are doing things correctly have to pay for those who don’t. I’m tired of paying for people to squat.
Very simple solution. Round them up and force them into facilities. Provide mental health services and job counselling. When you've proven ready you're free to go. Don't want to participate? You stay put. Danger to society and can't be released. At any time they want to get help, provide it and get them ready to go. NONE of these feel good services have worked and only make the problem worse.
FEMA camp / concentration camp? Problem with that is they be rounding up people with different religious beliefs or political beliefs which we might not be that far off from that anyway. The southern border and the huge amounts of fentanyl coming into the country this is what the problem is
@@antarcticmoongiant2691 Nope. Not concentration camp. These people are obviously not able to exist in society. What do we do with people like that? Normally jail. This would not be jail but rehabilitation. The results of any other strategy is clear.
It would be cool if instead of these large shelters they were more like villagers filled with tiny homes. Who wants to have one hundred roommates in that large jail like building? Most people need their own space and privacy. Maybe even communal bathrooms if they are worried about cleanliness.
Young adults learn from us about what is important in life to survive & succeed. Name brand clothes and shoes play a big part in defining one's self in our society.
Nadine's and Ozzie's solution is to break the camp up and keep the homeless away from areas in which the rich and tourists often frequent to keep the illusion that Spokane is beautiful to generate more revenue, meanwhile people fail to realize that these homeless men, women and children within the camp came from somewhere in the city, they were already sleeping under bridges, sidewalks and so on, nobody cared about them until the camp was erected and it became an eyesore to the old and rich, the city continues to neglect the homeless as it has for decades, Ozzie has been sheriff for how long and how much has crime risen since then? Nadine has been mayor for how long and which major problems has she fixed so far? If you want to suddenly care now, you should have cared way back then, considering most of you in the comment section are 40 and over.
So being a spokane resident I disagree. They have opened new shelters and they don't want to go there. They can't do drugs in a shelter. Also alot of those people aren't from spokane and caught wind of camp hope and moved there. This land is owned by wdot, they removed a 8 block neighborhood to build a hwy. It's been vacant for years
Give me the 25 million to buy some land and build dirt/sandbag aircrete dome homes for long term tenants to give them on site and off site jobs and then have a large pole barn with individual pod rooms for overnight short stays and make a productive member of society out of a once homeless community turned into a self sufficient society away from city limits where the homeless presence is seen and felt most until it creeps up into neighborhoods and starts camping out on all your blocks so use the money to pay and facilitate programs to establish their own permanent on site housing and job placement programs so they don’t return to the streets and become productive members of society. Don’t waste the money on one time bus tickets you smiled bout knowing it wouldn’t change anything just waste funds because you don’t care about the tax payers you represent and swore an oath to protect and serve not just your reputation but everyone’s safety and well-being like any caring person would for someone in need.
I live in that neighborhood and have never seen the police do their job when crimes that Scooby Doo could solve happen, but give them the opportunity to push some homeless people around and suddenly they aren't "understaffed" and are ready to toss these people into a wood chipper. Expensive solution: build with our money and watch nobody use the resources, then ask for more money. And then bus them to another city like a good, respectful human trafficking ring... Easy solution: bring resources to the camp where they all are and help these people get back on track. For once they aren't living under bridges and sleeping in doorways and could really be reached and put on the right path. Or yea give em the boot and let's build some more California condos and just keep stepping over them. These Sheriffs and politicians are just high-brow homeless begging for our money too and hate competition. This camp is no more of an eyesore than all the political campaign signs I see littering every corner in Spokane just the same. I guess it is all about perspective. Let's face it, most of the haters are living in CDA, Nine Mile, and the south hill and just need something to complain about at work...
The NPC have taken over Liberty Lake also...I moved to Eugene Oregon...and appreciate how the homeless have there respect still...they clean up the streets and recycle more than the any other social class or group .... in my opinion Spokane Washington has a fair amount of blood on its hands... From hanging chief Qualchan in Hangman Valley ....to the massacre of all the Spokane Indians Horses in Liberty Lake. We will see who asking the questions, and doing the explaining in the end....it's crazy how a white cop thought he was privileged enough to stand on another humans neck until he took his breath...There is still a sick amount of racism and prejudice in Spokane Washington... The local residents still believe in "Reefer madness " like black men raping white women because they smoke pot". I grew up in Spokane Washington for the last 37 years... the cops will literally kill you in this town...and there is absolutely no checks and balances...It's basically still the wild west...only the Indian and threat of freedom and independence has completely been lost...it's a town of white people who are going to pay for there past sins to the Red man and his Buffalo...not to mention the bones of those 700 in Spokane Indian horses who's screams cannot be silenced by a cover up..Changing a valley from Hangman to Latah only exacerbates the situation.
You're thinking that they want help most of them don't they wake up to get high and do nothing then sleep and repeat.. They can't even pick up their needles or trash. You can't help people who don't want to be helped..
It's a democrat ran welfare state. The Washington Supreme Court told cops to not chase criminals anymore. You democrats are getting what you deserve. Offering all those free dies and non strict drug laws only brings the worst people into your cities. Lock up the junkies instead of releasing them
Snohomish County Sheriff's at least helped their homeless people to get into treatment centers and drove them their and picked them up and took them to their new home. Voucher's from the City paid their rent for 6 months until they got jobs to get on their feet.
If we really want to deal with the homeless crisis. We need to stop shifting everything to a later date. we need to deal with these issues today. We need to implement a program that begins by using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. the first step is Dealing with their physiological needs. Air, Water, Food, Shelter, Sleep, Clothing. The Shelter on Trent, does not satisfy these all of these needs, thus it is incapable of satisfying the foundation of Maslow's Hierarchy.
@@zackting622 the drug addicts that I have talked to, 95% of them do drugs because of a trauma from their childhood and recent past. It's a coping mechanism. A really poor mechanism and a really bad excuse. Everyone has bad childhood memories. Everyone has trials and tribulations. What do you do with those who don't want to be a productive member of society? What do you do with those who just want to take, and never give? If you choose not to give, they will just take it anyway. Do you put them in jail indefinitely? Do you put them in a state mental facility? If you just let them roam around freely, then they will upset everything around them when they take from others. Why should those who don't follow societal rules, be allowed to take from those who follow the rules?
The irony of camp hopes location is not lost on me. What was, before the 1980s, the sight of row upon row of small bungalows. Torn down to make way for the imaginary north south corridor. But really just a way to grab valuable real estate from low to moderate income people. Yay progress. 😢
They aren’t the only ones who suffer! That is obvious! The city suffers that’s why we are talking about this now cause it’s in everyone’s face! This is a crisis of the people not just the addicts
The problem with that is the government base you can't even so much is parked backwards in those places without being kicked out and some people just don't want the rap hanging over their head like that we lean to let up off of these people
They built bum apartments down town & the people trash them and hang out getting high out front. These people have burnt every person who loved them & care only about drugs. The 3% that ain't homeless cuz of drugs ain't at camp hope. Fentanyl is the problem. Stuff makes meth, coke look like chocolate milk. America needs to deal with the fentanyl or the whole state is going to be camp hope
It will fix it for those who responsible adults. That is roughly 5% of the current homeless population. What do you do with the real problem? Those who decide not to pay rent, because someone else should pay it for them. They need to spend their money on things that they want. Be it drugs, alcohol, trinkets, etc. Is there anything worse than a drug addict with an EBT card? Stop funding their addictions! Give funding to those who actually need the help.
This is sad. I just watched a report about housing workers stole between $100 grand to a million dollars of money for low income housing in Spokane then we wonder why there are so many homeless. I'm all for helping other countries but how about helping our people first it would take just one of the financial packaging that we send to Ukraine to stop homelessness here. Also all the hungry homeless kids suffering on this planet as is so let's cut abortion an force woman to have unwanted kids that will suffer their whole lifes its sad what we have become. Do better Merica..
Its cuz this city has turned its back on its locals and downtrodden, instead catering to the newcomers....rents have skyrocketed and no caps on rent and the fact that this city is greedy and trying to be Seattle and its pathetic...Ive lived here basically my whole life and it disgusts me, this town has lost its charm and grace...................
You absolutely nailed it...I grew up here..and you God bless you for speaking the truth...our community is lying about having compassion towards drug addiction or the homeless...instead they have compassion on eachother in the upper class with all of them donating there clothes to eachother at the goodwill...only to buy someone else's because we're taking about Spokane here...not the Seattle economy or even a freindly small town. Just a wanna-be town...that has a lot of accountability to accept before anything will be allowed to change. I love Spokane ...it's my hometown. I will not be deceived about the state of this City. It's about to get what it worked so hard for over several generations. Righteous judgment.
WHERE IS ALL THE MILLIONS THAT SPOKANE WAS ALLOTTED TO HELP WITH THE HOMELESS? WHY IS KNOW ONE ASKING OUR MAYOR ABOUT THAT? THERE IS NOWAY THAT POOR EXCUSE FOR A SHELTER ON TRENT WAS MORE THAN $100 000. WHERES THE REST?
It's a sad situation. But also I think some of these people just don't want to go by the rules in the shelters. In these campsites they can do whatever they want and get away with it.
That right there is facts.
this is an issue in Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Reno, Phoenix and Tucson (from my personal experience). we will not fix this without fundamentally fixing our society. we are sick, and no amount of political posturing is going to fix these issues.
We will not fix it without destroying the lives of the rich and making a return to their normal lives impossible. The lawyers, the realtors, the politicians, the celebrities, and the born wealthy all need to have their lives ruined and we need to refuse to help them in any way. Let them starve on the corners.
You want to fix the problem, make it a problem for the people that created it.
@Johnpaul: I agree. Let's start now fixing society. It will be us next. None of this selfishness is just.
@@THEROOTMATTERS go ahead and give up everything your husband worked for, god knows you don’t understand the value of money.
So, according to the guy they interviewed, the new shelter is too clean and organized (and it doesn't allow drugs. alcohol or weapons). Unfortunately the lesson learned after so many of the same failures, is that the only way to eliminate the homeless "problem" is to bulldoze their camps and send them packing to the next "Camp Hope". Sadly, that seems like the ONLY effective thing.
And "fixing our society" is just pie-in-the-sky do-gooder empty rhetoric. How does one "fix society"?
Yep... We truly are a Dope Sick Nation and the mental illness crisis on top of that makes it even more catastrophic 😢🤔
Don’t listen to to ANYTHING Seattle or LA has to say about homelessness. They are the example of failure. Let’s find cities with the least homelessness and replicate them.
That's the dumbest thing you'll ever say
I wouldn't have my name attached either
My guess is you’d rather have them imprisoned for being poor
@@Flamingpins what's your recommendation?
@@Flamingpins They are not in this position because they are poor. A lot of people are poor that don't live like this.
I’ve lived here for 52 years. I’ve never seen it this bad. “They” (the owner of the land?) should have never let it get this bad. There’s not many places for people to go who have mental issues & or drug problems. Something must be done.
The cities, counties, and states are not the parents of the homeless people.
Many of the homeless can go work if illegals come and make it in the USA so can the homeless.
The homeless just want to be lazy and babied an do nothing to earn their keep, go ask them.
This homeless problem has been around for years got worse because of being babied and more money put into it.
@@eddav8089 well said!!!
the problem is is that they don't want any rules and you can't have a group of people just living somewhere with no rules. If they want a place to stay then they need to follow rules otherwise they really don't want it that badly so they should have to move on. Everyone has to follow rules where they live and they should have to also.
Please bring them to Jay Inslee's house and Olympia, WA.
lol that'd be cool
Breaking news: the crisis that has been going on for over a year is still going on and we'll make sure to update you tomorrow.
Bull
Jewels helping hands needs to be shut down!!! She is a big reason for a lot of this! I worked for the shelters and she did drugs with the homeless and sold drugs to them all the time! She acts like she’s helping but she definitely is not!!!!
Wow, very interesting! A shelter is encouraging the homeless to use drugs? Where is this place located?
Edit - Wow! "Jewels Helping Hands responds to threats to clear Camp Hope" This is like the beginning of Portland or Seattle's CHOP!
Lol.
Yeah she’s the worst she needs to quit acting like she’s helping but if you know anything about her it’s just a big show for her
I'm planning a lawsuit against her. I was trying to sell my home, but not one buyer would even consider it. She chose that site because she would not get many repercussions. I became good friends with the highway dept. guy assigned to clean up their mess. he said, and i quote " we called the city to remove these trespassers and they said it wasn't their problem". and now the city says its the highway dept.'s fault. BULLSHIT. So let's get rid of this "homeless" label. these people are still here a year later. Let's call them for what they really are:
1: PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT TO PAY RENT.
2: PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT TO GET A JOB
(there are dozens of "help wanted" signs within a mile of that camp.)
3: PEOPLE THAT CAN'T PASS A PRE-EMPLOYMENT DRUG TEST.
4: etc, etc, etc....
By the way, i live right by the camp, and i don't see ANY families there.
OH, YEAH.... When i camp on state land, it costs me $18 or more per day.
why doesn't Jewels pay my mortgage????
Jewels helping hand should be jailed too!!!
Fat bitches is right
Yes! The officials know what’s going with her and they pretend they don’t know! I watched it with my own eyes when I worked for the shelters! She needs to be stopped she is a huge reason this is happening. Go down and ask any homeless person about her they will tell you she is an addict herself and she supplies the homeless with drugs while taking their ssi checks to pay for those drugs. She is a piece of work! The officials know this including our mayor!
First of all. How do you fools think homelessness will ever be solved without First addressing the Main issues. Mental illness and drug addiction. Get this through your brains to solve those issues First then you need to build affordable houses instead of bs looking over the spokane river.
They need to go get a job people need to stop to making them believe it’s okay to live like that. There’s plenty of work out there.
That's the thing they don't want a job like literally everywhere in Spokane is hiring they can walk in and get a job immediately it's just they can't cuz they're not clean and they choose not to be
Can't help folks who don't wanna be helped, I'm sure not all of the decline but plenty will to keep this camp the way it is. Same thing in Santa Cruz, they'll just move it every 6months.
Not everyone that's homeless is due to drugs and prostitution. And even if they are you guys do nothing to help people and then turn around and say the most disgraceful stuff.
I honestly don’t understand this mindset. Why have any laws if anyone could just argue well people will just not obey them anyway. If you really want to solve a problem we are going to have to realize that if they are not going to work willingly we have to make them. We somehow managed to throw people in jail for having an ounce of weed on them but we can’t make homeless people pick up trash on the streets? Just be honest nobody wants to do anything about it. If people wanted to fix this problem we would have it done in a matter of a couple of years.
@@jordanwhite8718 you don't understand that mindset because you've never dealt with these people. You think it's everyone elses problem.... these people outright CHOOSE to live like this.... They don't want to change or accept help. Maybe speak(or attempt to) some of them..... I find it easy to spot those who don't come out of their bubble and experience what these people are.
@@mattbarker1411 Are used to ride the bus in downtown Seattle so I have a pretty good idea of who these people are. Most of them are just down on their luck drug addicts or people who should be in a mental health institution. We can all think Ronald Reagan for them not getting any help. When people are in situations like that they probably feel like they don’t deserve help, or they just don’t know how to get help. And like I said before if we had this attitude about murderers and rapists the world would be a much worse place. I am sick and tired of this attitude that because people don’t want to work we should just let them live in filth and make everyone else’s life worse. Sometimes you have to give people Toughlove in order to make them do better.
@@jordanwhite8718 most choose to live this way drugs and drugs are there main priority if they wanted help they would seek it..
Maybe trying lowering rent its so expensive its ridiculous not counting the restrictions just to get into a place
Yet hard working people do it every day.
It's by design, the local government is raising property taxes. It's not going to stop until people start paying more attention to local government.
@@shannonlewis3687 yeah living paycheck to paycheck choosing between rent and their next weeks worth of meals, not to mention things like their car breaking down. People are struggling to pay rent and live now that rent is over 50% of your paycheck. Those “Hard Working people” are barely keeping their heads above water nowadays. That’s not living, not while people say things like “they’re fine”. We are not fine. Most of us are 2 bad financial months away from homelessness. god forbid any of us get sick or break a leg in this fucking country without insurance
@@gudematcha You describe the majority of my life and it didn't change until I did more than anyone else to change my situation. Depend on nothing and no one. Determine your own future. We can always do more when we try. If we stop given people excuses to sit on their rearends with their hands out, they will stand on their own feet
@@shannonlewis3687 lots of hard working people pushed into living in their cars because these greedy landlords
This has got to end. We cannot continue to let camp hope hold this city hostage!
@Dragonkin57 Spokane has over 300 available beds at shelters. The people who are at camp hope are there because they either do not want to follow the rules of shelters like not being there under the influence or they enjoy the lifestyle. Believe it or not some of them don't want any help. Instead we allow a over run camp full of drugs that is causing mass crime in the area to continue uncontrolled actually hurting members of the community.
How do you expect us to get jobs without proper shelter, hygiene, clothing, ID, social security card, or birth certificates? Experience homeless before making assumptions.
So why did they pick Spokane does anyone known.
No Rent Control
No affordable housing
Don't call it camp "Hope" call it camp Crime.
Camp dope. What I fail to understand is why there is kids down there????
@@antarcticmoongiant2691 how much you want to bet those kids are getting passed some Mommy and Daddy can get their drugs if you know what I mean
Perhaps someone should arrest drug user and sellers, make people that can work actually get a job, and kick them off when they try to set up tents. Police need to arrest folks they see breaking the law, not babysitting the homeless camp.
I was homeless for a year and a half. I managed to throw out my garbage in a receptacle, find a rest room, and didn’t steal from anyone. I worked toward a more stable home life. I am also disabled so don’t give me the BS about they can’t work.
Take notes from Portland.. Don't decriminalize drugs and don't make it legal for them to camp anywhere they want.
Do what nobody else seems to want to do- Crack down on mental illness and drug addiction. Until then, nothing will change.
You can't make a post and change do you deal with addiction problems and this is also America when we first came here we camped anywhere we could because we will desperate to get away
@@zackting622 it couldn't hurt. At least we're thinking and talking about possible solutions. I believe that's more than what most of the "elected officials" are doing.
The crazy thing is, they have the actual opportunity to make a difference with funding, yet continue to just talk about the problems. There's more pay for them, the longer they can "discuss" the problematic issues.
What we need to do, is find out how to get the funding, so we can actually get a ball rolling. I have had it with the talks and discussions. So, tell me. How do I get the funding to start fixing the problems?
@@zackting622 lol yes the first colonials we’re JUST like the Tweakers at Camp Hope!
Yes the war on drugs has been an astonishing success for 5 decades now. Does anyone have any real solutions
@@jacobnapkins1155 those who have real solutions are sent to jail as "combatants".
There is no such thing as "war on drugs".
With a title of "War", they get the government funding. Money is what they desire. Next to come, is the 'War on Homelessness".
Maybe if we had rent control. No more than $700 for a Studio, $1000 for a 1 bed, $1300 for 2, $1600 for 3, etc etc.
Some section 8, okay. All section 8? No
It sort of does represent spokane. It's not exactly cheap to live here, anymore.
That fence is a joke. You think thieves are going to let a stupid fence stop them. They climb them all the time. Or they cut them. Fo a quick in out.
Then they have a place to go to
And next to no one goes.
I've live in Spokane for my whole life. I just moved to Florida and I'm astonished at how Spokane a small city with a huge economy manages this. While these huge cities with basic economies look like the south hill on steroids
I can’t believe there are companies offering STUDIOS for $1500 here now. It makes sense now why we have so many houseless people.
What do you mean? Are you saying spokane is doing bad dealing with it?
High rents are correlated with more homeless big cities have higher rents therefore more people who can't afford a place to live
Send all of them over to Jay inslees home and let them camp out there in his house and front lawn
Affordable housing is not the problem . Rent can be 1 dollar a month but the drug addict will rather spend it on drugs . As for the shelter the majority don’t wanna be in them because of the rules. They rather be marauders and steal and be free to do drugs and not follow any rules .
Amen my friend.
Maybe if psych pills worked they wouldn't be taking other drugs. Also they legalize cannabis but won't let you smoke it anywhere. The rules are so strict in my apartment that they want to kick me out just for company having a pipe in their pocket. There is no smoking going on inside my place but this is what they are trying to make as rules for apartment living.
Ummmm no. Most are mentally ill in the first place. If we had a stray dog out on the street we would pick them up to incarcerate them for treatment. Why can't we pick these people up, assess their needs and get them treatment Regardless if they want it or not? It is the humane thing to do. I know. The city Let my son die on the streets 4months ago despite my calls for help for years.
Preach. Drives me nuts when people think the homeless are all displaced hard working brain surgeons who just need a hand up.
they arent all drug addicts you narrow minded ass.....people LIKE YOU are the problem
Why does Jewels Helping Hands sound sketchy???? I remember when they set up a “warming”shelter at the Women’s Club on the South Hill after Julia got the keys to the building without having a contract in place. Someone needs to audit them to see exactly where the money is going. Certainly, JHH would want to ensure that there are homeless people to “service” so they can continue getting paid by the city/state. Talk about a conflict of interests.
Is she also know as “Jewels”? e.g., her nickname? If so - wow!
You're funny. I saw the news today. Fraud reported. Guardians Services And another Spokane housing party.
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I've tried to contact Julie. She won't respond to my Facebook friend request. I think she is getting rich off this
4 replies and youtube only shows me 2. shes sketch af
the bus ticket should be back to there home town. But on the foot if we had a old ghost town with land to grow there own crops. And only the ones that had income coming in they could start there own town. There would have to be help but this way the whole burden would not be on spokane. Because what's going on now is not working.
I like the concept of relocating the homeless people to any abandoned ghost towns that have no one living there; and as long as the homeless people have some sorts of income they can live in those abandoned ghost towns; and they can grow their own foods; and the local utility companies can provide all the electricity they need!
More like Camp Dope
make residential camping illegal
Would you rather they set up all around the city and on the streets or In one single area where they can all help each other?
Bussing them Out the city is a good idea
They dont help each other, they cause problems. The entire local area has seen crime and drug use skyrocket. They need to be gone
There drug addicts, they don’t want help they want their fix.
@@drewchorlton342 It's a never ending cycle, thieve and rob for a fix and repeat the next day. Steal from the local residents and encourage black market drug dealing well here soon they're all going to have to migrate to California because the weather will kill you very quick up here in the NW and these people that migrate here just don't understand that for some reason.
@@gabrielreutov2823 lol yes just make it someone else's problem the true American way
has anyone tried flamethrowers? you get what you tolerate, so happy I moved from Spokane. A great city that turned into a sh/t hole...
Because. It's better the homeless people are in one spot than scattered all over Spokane...
In Orange county California they moved hundreds of homeless people off the Santa Ana River. And all the authorities really accomplished was to distribute homeless people all over Orange county. Instead of congregating on the Santa Ana River next to Angel stadium most of them now live on the sidewalks at major street intersections. Large numbers of homeless are living on the sidewalks around Disneyland and Knott's Berry farm. Some ended up in Huntington Beach by the pier. There are large numbers of homeless at the Newport transportation Center in Newport Beach. It doesn't do any good to just chase them around from one place to another telling the homeless, "well you don't have to leave but you can't stay here".
Stop giving them all them freebies & incentives.
That attracts outsiders
Spokane Sheriff's needs to do what the Sheriff's in Snohomish County did !
They made a plan to get homeless people off the streets.
They got the homeless people into treatment centers, even drove them their and after treatment they picked them up and drove them to their new homes.
City VOUCHERS paid for their rent for 6 Mos until they could find jobs to get back on their feet.
@@jilliebean343 in our town we have druggie deadbeats who don't want all that.
Instead they'll make kid forts behind the McDonald's that's close to the river
Watch my video I uploaded of the McDonald's
Here's an idea! Let's actually put the "corrections" into our corrections facilities! Instead of flat out detaining addicts as criminals and leaving rehab or drug court incentives to the order of a court to which said self destructive person's only consequence is a frivolous warrant, let's actually force drug courts. Let's establish real rehabilitation and distinguish between that of a criminal and that of an addict, like they have done so successfully in many other developed countries! This hasn't necessarily resulted in an end to addiction within those countries but has decreased its presence immensely which has decreased criminal population overall. They've closed down more buildings for prison than they have opened said rehab camps. The most measurable and referencable country I could refer to is the Netherlands for those wondering. It's the same idea that coined the phrase treat addiction like a disease rather than a crime which many have taken literally rather than figuratively. It really just means don't treat it like a crime. Nothing about the system is meant to move people into better conditions and every person whom spoke (including the mayor) is a perfect example of this; they want them to move but they will bring the same problems wherever they go in spokane. So they're not solving anything at all. Homelessness is much older of an issue than camp hope has existed and nothing was done by either the state or city with such haste, it's a pr war of whose going to be to blame. It's always been the city no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Not saying the states done any better tho. They're not on the ground making the decisions to yield the results they're demanding.
Decrimalize all drugs! Seriously no one should be a criminal for using drugs especially vets with PTSD, the war on drugs only exists today because puritans want minorities off the streets
Why doesn't the city have a system for they're sewage? After 10 months.. but you'll gross out the neighbors.. and pay to puck it up.. and de real.. the cops along with the homeless into neighborhood not freeing up any law enforcement. Or city resources!
MANY FROM SEATTLE MOVE HERE BECAUSE THEY GET MORE SERVICES
Was in downtown Spokane about 3 months ago..... stepping over junkies that were actively shooting up on the sidewalk....
Yeah right.
What's being done to protect the neighbors who live there
How many of these people are from your city
Camp Hope? This is Camp Woodward. Weird inaccuracy in KREM's reporting here.
Sending love and peaceful energy to everyone reading this comment.
Camp Hell
Supposedly a woman at the camp dope got raped but Julie Garcia didn't care about it & law enforcement did nothing about it really pathetic if this happened
Weird the cost of housing doubled and the homeless population doubled... Must be drugs let's just blame drugs.
I blame laziness, lack of self respect, and no accountability for personal decisions. The drugs are just the easy excuse.
winters aren't that bad out there... they will get by.
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I live on the west plains between Cheney and airway heights, I'd like to direct you to our good friend Mr. Gale Force Wind
Put them to work. Problem is we can't beat discipline into these non motivated individuals.
Move that simple
Just remember this all started as a protest that y’all let carry out don’t pin this on the state
If they weren't druggies and if they picked up their trash this wouldn't happen 🤷♂️ but nope no sympathy for people like that..
THEIRS DRUG ADDICTS THAT LIVE HOUSES, APTS, CONDOS , FANACY PALACE.
THEIR ARE ALSO PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR JOBS THRU NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN AND LOST THEIR HOMES. THESE ARE HUMAN --BEINS.
Nowadays street homeless and are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. Street encampments are open air drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. Majority of them will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. Second hand fentanyl smoke can easily kill you in no time. Street homeless gradually destroy everything around themselves. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets. If they can afford, they smoke fentanyl up to 100 times a day. That's how all these fires are started. Homeless advocates are mentally stuck in Pathological Altruism, and all they do is enabling fentanyl addicts remain as close as possible to their fentanyl source.
The People who's complaining needs to start Demanding solutions from these Leaders they vote into Office who's Aware of this Crisis and there are Obvious Solutions. Rent is too High. Do something about it
I challenge all local landscape and construction companies to offer equipment to clean it up I offer my 7k dump trailer a skid steer and a my back hoe , let's start cleaning this up since the adults have left the chat
Spokane: we don't want homeless here
Yet has an apartment complex full of level 3 sex offenders.
Here's a crazy idea. The city and local employers work together to create employment, be it garbage collection, farm help etc. Give the homeless the option of going to rehab, mental health services or work. If not incarceration for public terrorism would be a last option. I'm all for helping those in need and in my dealings with addicts find that enabling self destructive behavior is not a solution
With the jail over flowing, and the catch and release policy on non violent crimes, it's not gonna work, specially when about 50% of the ppl currently homeless don't wanna work. It's a catch 22
That's pretty rich, asking Seattle and Los Angeles for advice when their cities are an apocalyptic nightmare.
Party at camp dope tonight
To everyone who helped create this camp including the tow companies Ozzie fine them all until they are out-of business they helped this situation by dumping trash on tax payers property we own thay property the tax payers not the leeches
💯 facts sick of the bullcrap 💩 they live in my neighborhood like 🪳 cockroaches that keep coming because Washington state politicians/lawmakers has given keys to the city for purging whenever they want to with condoning drugs/crime they don't want rehab or mental health counseling plus the fact that all the towing companies sold people in camp dope RV's that don't run for $1 dollars they would haul them to the camp
its a health concern.
How did the camp get so big ?? One of the problems is landlords raising rents so high that many long term tenants were rented out of their homes. Case in point a 50 year old woman had lived in her apartment for 12 years until her landlord raised her rent by $350 a month. She now has to live in her car. She rents a motel room a couple of times a week so she can shower and sleep in a bed. This woman works like some of the many homeless now. That Trent shelter is disgusting. It has bedbugs. The porta-potties have overflowed. When it got cold the water pipes froze. Just amess.
This is what you get when you enable homeless addict behavior. Neighbors need to sue the owner of the land!
What it takes to live in the REAL World is something that SHOULD be taught in Schools. Nothing that is being taught teaches anyone how to know the laws, buy a house, keep a job...school curriculums do not focus on how to be a successful adult. All these non profits focus on teaching people how to manage money they don't have. Why aren't these non profits focused on keeping people employed? Stop letting these Employers fire people over issues THEY should be addressing with every employee and wanting to help, instead they don't care that you gotta be there for your sick kids or your car broke down and you don't have the money to fix it. What is wrong with employers today? Ask ALL them homeless people and BET they all tell you they were fired.
How about affordable housing? I was homeless for 18 months because I couldn't afford rent. Not because I have mental health issues or drug dependency issues.
Unfortunately, I was not considered for housing programs because I did not fit into either category.
They aren't addressing the issues because no one is forcing them to.
When I finally did get subsidized housing, I lost it because I was admitted to the hospital. It's a never ending struggle to maintain housing. That is the problem. Now, I am in an adult family home because that state has determined I am unable to care for myself. Consider yourself lucky. At least you can make decisions for yourself.
My thoughts exactly,
Why do we as tax payers need to invest in shelters and low income housing for people who are clearly not really concerned about doing the right thing? Why is the answer constantly, that, the people who are doing things correctly have to pay for those who don’t. I’m tired of paying for people to squat.
Oh sure make sure the OFFICE'S have bathrooms forget the people!!!
they should have called it Hadley's hope as a reference to Aliens lmao.
actually it is already a reference! its a reference to the the hope for change in their lives and thats much more relevant, cheers!
They should call it Camp Fentanyl.
@@sirreginaldthegreat7010 well I went to jewels today to volunteer and I saw 0 drugs! Join us next time you'll see for yourself too!
GET RID OF THEM SO WE CAN FEEL SAFE FOR GODS SAKE
Very simple solution. Round them up and force them into facilities. Provide mental health services and job counselling. When you've proven ready you're free to go. Don't want to participate? You stay put. Danger to society and can't be released. At any time they want to get help, provide it and get them ready to go. NONE of these feel good services have worked and only make the problem worse.
FEMA camp / concentration camp? Problem with that is they be rounding up people with different religious beliefs or political beliefs which we might not be that far off from that anyway.
The southern border and the huge amounts of fentanyl coming into the country this is what the problem is
Marc Hebert... just wait until we round you up...and your rare breed that thinks it's superior.
@@antarcticmoongiant2691 Nope. Not concentration camp. These people are obviously not able to exist in society. What do we do with people like that? Normally jail. This would not be jail but rehabilitation. The results of any other strategy is clear.
It’s about the funding
It would be cool if instead of these large shelters they were more like villagers filled with tiny homes. Who wants to have one hundred roommates in that large jail like building? Most people need their own space and privacy. Maybe even communal bathrooms if they are worried about cleanliness.
Giving them housing will just make it worse
these ppl should go and start camping in front of jay inslees front yard
Young adults learn from us about what is important in life to survive & succeed.
Name brand clothes and shoes play a big part in defining one's self in our society.
Drugs and addiction are the problem,the clothes are a outward appearance. Inwardly they need to change.
I just go with whatever is comfortable
People should not be made comfortable in poverty, per B.Franklin. Time to grow up.
Supply a temporary black and gray water dump facility pronto. The mayor is not stupid is she?
Dang camp dope I wonder where all the drugs coming from
Turn the golf courses into homeless camps.
Now that human trafficking is being monitored, it's really hard to bus all those "undesirable" people to Seattle now, isn't it?
offering people bus tickets = human trafficking
Furthermore, giving free food to people whom receive food stamps causes them to spend food stamps for drugs. You are making it worse not better.
It's not what you say
It's how you say it
Nadine's and Ozzie's solution is to break the camp up and keep the homeless away from areas in which the rich and tourists often frequent to keep the illusion that Spokane is beautiful to generate more revenue, meanwhile people fail to realize that these homeless men, women and children within the camp came from somewhere in the city, they were already sleeping under bridges, sidewalks and so on, nobody cared about them until the camp was erected and it became an eyesore to the old and rich, the city continues to neglect the homeless as it has for decades, Ozzie has been sheriff for how long and how much has crime risen since then? Nadine has been mayor for how long and which major problems has she fixed so far? If you want to suddenly care now, you should have cared way back then, considering most of you in the comment section are 40 and over.
Not all of them are from Spokane. Seattle and Portland sent homeless here on buses along with some bribe money and McDonalds cards.
So being a spokane resident I disagree. They have opened new shelters and they don't want to go there. They can't do drugs in a shelter. Also alot of those people aren't from spokane and caught wind of camp hope and moved there. This land is owned by wdot, they removed a 8 block neighborhood to build a hwy. It's been vacant for years
You tell them, good 😂
Nadine 'Worthless' Woodworth, a failed mayor. She is way over her head and has no clue how to do the job.
does spokane not even have enough beds to supposedly relocate these people?
It sounds as if many of them don't want to be relocated- they enjoy the lawlessness of places like Camp Hope
All of their tents and make shift shanty shacks will all fit perfectly in Central Washington. Lots of open space to relocate them.
Give me the 25 million to buy some land and build dirt/sandbag aircrete dome homes for long term tenants to give them on site and off site jobs and then have a large pole barn with individual pod rooms for overnight short stays and make a productive member of society out of a once homeless community turned into a self sufficient society away from city limits where the homeless presence is seen and felt most until it creeps up into neighborhoods and starts camping out on all your blocks so use the money to pay and facilitate programs to establish their own permanent on site housing and job placement programs so they don’t return to the streets and become productive members of society. Don’t waste the money on one time bus tickets you smiled bout knowing it wouldn’t change anything just waste funds because you don’t care about the tax payers you represent and swore an oath to protect and serve not just your reputation but everyone’s safety and well-being like any caring person would for someone in need.
Enable people?
It can happen to you and probably will soon enough.
Thank you Mr Sheriff hope it works
I live in that neighborhood and have never seen the police do their job when crimes that Scooby Doo could solve happen, but give them the opportunity to push some homeless people around and suddenly they aren't "understaffed" and are ready to toss these people into a wood chipper.
Expensive solution: build with our money and watch nobody use the resources, then ask for more money. And then bus them to another city like a good, respectful human trafficking ring...
Easy solution: bring resources to the camp where they all are and help these people get back on track.
For once they aren't living under bridges and sleeping in doorways and could really be reached and put on the right path.
Or yea give em the boot and let's build some more California condos and just keep stepping over them.
These Sheriffs and politicians are just high-brow homeless begging for our money too and hate competition. This camp is no more of an eyesore than all the political campaign signs I see littering every corner in Spokane just the same. I guess it is all about perspective.
Let's face it, most of the haters are living in CDA, Nine Mile, and the south hill and just need something to complain about at work...
Amen!
The NPC have taken over Liberty Lake also...I moved to Eugene Oregon...and appreciate how the homeless have there respect still...they clean up the streets and recycle more than the any other social class or group .... in my opinion Spokane Washington has a fair amount of blood on its hands...
From hanging chief Qualchan in Hangman Valley ....to the massacre of all the Spokane Indians Horses in Liberty Lake. We will see who asking the questions, and doing the explaining in the end....it's crazy how a white cop thought he was privileged enough to stand on another humans neck until he took his breath...There is still a sick amount of racism and prejudice in Spokane Washington...
The local residents still believe in "Reefer madness " like black men raping white women because they smoke pot". I grew up in Spokane Washington for the last 37 years... the cops will literally kill you in this town...and there is absolutely no checks and balances...It's basically still the wild west...only the Indian and threat of freedom and independence has completely been lost...it's a town of white people who are going to pay for there past sins to the Red man and his Buffalo...not to mention the bones of those 700 in
Spokane Indian horses who's screams cannot be silenced by a cover up..Changing a valley from Hangman to Latah only exacerbates the situation.
You're thinking that they want help most of them don't they wake up to get high and do nothing then sleep and repeat.. They can't even pick up their needles or trash. You can't help people who don't want to be helped..
It's a democrat ran welfare state. The Washington Supreme Court told cops to not chase criminals anymore. You democrats are getting what you deserve. Offering all those free dies and non strict drug laws only brings the worst people into your cities. Lock up the junkies instead of releasing them
Snohomish County Sheriff's at least helped their homeless people to get into treatment centers and drove them their and picked them up and took them to their new home.
Voucher's from the City paid their rent for 6 months until they got jobs to get on their feet.
Trent resource center is just camp hope with a roof..Woodward is delusional..
More like camp DOPE🤦🤦🤦
If we really want to deal with the homeless crisis. We need to stop shifting everything to a later date. we need to deal with these issues today.
We need to implement a program that begins by using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. the first step is Dealing with their physiological needs.
Air, Water, Food, Shelter, Sleep, Clothing.
The Shelter on Trent, does not satisfy these all of these needs, thus it is incapable of satisfying the foundation of Maslow's Hierarchy.
Yas
From what I researched sometimes drug addicts are trying to escape the pain rather mental or physical by starting with what you said we can help them
@@zackting622 the drug addicts that I have talked to, 95% of them do drugs because of a trauma from their childhood and recent past. It's a coping mechanism. A really poor mechanism and a really bad excuse. Everyone has bad childhood memories. Everyone has trials and tribulations. What do you do with those who don't want to be a productive member of society? What do you do with those who just want to take, and never give? If you choose not to give, they will just take it anyway. Do you put them in jail indefinitely?
Do you put them in a state mental facility?
If you just let them roam around freely, then they will upset everything around them when they take from others.
Why should those who don't follow societal rules, be allowed to take from those who follow the rules?
Clear the camp and apologize later.
The irony of camp hopes location is not lost on me. What was, before the 1980s, the sight of row upon row of small bungalows. Torn down to make way for the imaginary north south corridor. But really just a way to grab valuable real estate from low to moderate income people. Yay progress. 😢
It's not city property? Why didn't the WADOT seal it off then?
sounds like a democratic problem lol republican would give them a free bus rides to Nancy pelosi's house
They don’t want to follow the rules just because they’re crackheads Metal patience. Just arrest them..!!
You voted in sanctuary state stop crying over what you ask for !
W ozzy get these people out...
Why are you guys not just building a fence?????
COUNTY SHOULDN'T SUPPORT THOSE ON DRUGS AND ALCOHOL....THEY CHOOSE THEIR BEHAVIOR, NOW THEY MUST SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES....HELP THOSE WHO DESERVE IT
They aren’t the only ones who suffer! That is obvious! The city suffers that’s why we are talking about this now cause it’s in everyone’s face! This is a crisis of the people not just the addicts
@@christiRicky81
I agree...that's why I don't support the VICTIM MENTALLY and the LOSERS WINNING
Build starter homes, and low rent appartments in Spokane and the problem will almost fix itself. :/
The problem with that is the government base you can't even so much is parked backwards in those places without being kicked out and some people just don't want the rap hanging over their head like that we lean to let up off of these people
They built bum apartments down town & the people trash them and hang out getting high out front. These people have burnt every person who loved them & care only about drugs.
The 3% that ain't homeless cuz of drugs ain't at camp hope.
Fentanyl is the problem. Stuff makes meth, coke look like chocolate milk. America needs to deal with the fentanyl or the whole state is going to be camp hope
It will fix it for those who responsible adults. That is roughly 5% of the current homeless population. What do you do with the real problem?
Those who decide not to pay rent, because someone else should pay it for them. They need to spend their money on things that they want. Be it drugs, alcohol, trinkets, etc. Is there anything worse than a drug addict with an EBT card?
Stop funding their addictions!
Give funding to those who actually need the help.
It won’t tho
This is sad. I just watched a report about housing workers stole between $100 grand to a million dollars of money for low income housing in Spokane then we wonder why there are so many homeless. I'm all for helping other countries but how about helping our people first it would take just one of the financial packaging that we send to Ukraine to stop homelessness here. Also all the hungry homeless kids suffering on this planet as is so let's cut abortion an force woman to have unwanted kids that will suffer their whole lifes its sad what we have become. Do better Merica..
Its cuz this city has turned its back on its locals and downtrodden, instead catering to the newcomers....rents have skyrocketed and no caps on rent and the fact that this city is greedy and trying to be Seattle and its pathetic...Ive lived here basically my whole life and it disgusts me, this town has lost its charm and grace...................
You absolutely nailed it...I grew up here..and you God bless you for speaking the truth...our community is lying about having compassion towards drug addiction or the homeless...instead they have compassion on eachother in the upper class with all of them donating there clothes to eachother at the goodwill...only to buy someone else's because we're taking about Spokane here...not the Seattle economy or even a freindly small town. Just a wanna-be town...that has a lot of accountability to accept before anything will be allowed to change. I love Spokane ...it's my hometown. I will not be deceived about the state of this City. It's about to get what it worked so hard for over several generations. Righteous judgment.
WHERE IS ALL THE MILLIONS THAT SPOKANE WAS ALLOTTED TO HELP WITH THE HOMELESS? WHY IS KNOW ONE ASKING OUR MAYOR ABOUT THAT? THERE IS NOWAY THAT POOR EXCUSE FOR A SHELTER ON TRENT WAS MORE THAN $100 000. WHERES THE REST?
If someone has been homeless for three years or more, you arent really trying. You are happy to set up a tent on the sidewalk forever.