Why Spokane's homeless population is more visible
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2019
- Spokane’s homeless population hasn’t grown all that much in the past few years. So why is homelessness so much more visible lately in downtown Spokane, and what can be done to help the city’s homeless?
I moved to weather and was able to get a tore up old trailer. I've been in New Mexico for eight years. And that old trailer sure has been good to me.
Whatever you do, don't follow Seattle's example. That place is going to hell in a handbasket. A lot of cities back east dealt with this years ago with varying success. Might want to look at some of them. All I know it it's starting to spill over into Idaho and that's unacceptable.
Seattle is 3rd in the nation in homeless!
I am 52 I do not use drugs I’ve been here since 1991 and I have worked hard in my life I am on Social Security and only received 850 a month therefore it is impossible to find a place or save money to get into a place not all of us are derelict drug addicts I am not disabled enough to go into a facility and I am not old enough to get into a senior place at this rate I will be in a tent on the side of the road
They're getting bold& greedy too. I tried to help out a homeless guy downtown Spokane and when I tried handing 3a dollar he got all kinds of mad and refused the dollar saying, scuse me ,yelling is gotta be more than a dollar! I couldn't believe it!
They are hounding people downtown and it's a public safety issue no doubt.
Yes, and if you don't give them what they want,some of them act like they're going to attack you! (I say act, because myself and my husband have both been able to flee before finding out for sure.)
Honestly, I don't carry cash. I _can't_ give them a handout. So they're going to come after me? That's a great way to keep getting handouts!
I've seen others who just start yelling obscenities at you for not handing out, which is in front of other people who MIGHT have given them a buck if they'd not flipped their lid on someone else who said no. America's entitlement culture apparently does not discriminate.
There are many areas of downtown (sadly, most of it), that we just don't go anymore. Why? Because of things like that, being accosted for money. There have also been groups of the young adults that have gone around attacking people downtown. The parking sucks too, and violent drunk people is to common of a thing too. Spokane is working on dying too.
This is all true I live 2hrs away for Spokane and sometimes I go there and when I go to a gas station or when my parents drive past the tunnel I see a lot of homeless people and druged people on the streets and my parents give money to those poor homeless people God bless all of yall and stay safe🙏🏽❤️
I bought 2 meals a couple weeks ago at the riverfront Starbucks. There was absolutely nowhere to sit and have lunch. It was full of the homeless. I had to eat outside in 18 degree weather to make room for non costumers. This issue does drive away customers.
@@lorensmith8861 you have had a few years of the real world right? You understand what it's like to work to eat? Work to shower? So let's say you have money you take it to a business spend it with them, there establishment is full of people that didn't buy one thing, would you feel more as a paying customer you should get priority? Should you have to walk to riverfront square food court or transit center to eat your lunch? Real entitlement is feeling like you get priority treatment in an establishment without paying or doing anything to be there.
Yep! Same happened to me at the Second Ave Starbucks. It has to be killing their business, and yet, they continue to allow people to just hang out in there for hours a day. I could barely walk inside that store, and someone threw something right past my head while I was trying to put sugar in my coffee!
Exactly like you said now we’re visible to the community before you used to just hide the homeless people in a couple camps
The homeless problem is crazy theres litterally a homeless person on every corner you go to the plaza yo ride the bus theres so many homeless people who just stays in there all day bad place to go
that first guy was gacked to the teeth on meth. There are SO many resources here in Spokane and many shelters. None of these people need to be sitting/sleeping on the sidewalks. The only thing is, you must pass a drug test to be able to stay at our shelters and every single one of them who are not in shelters are on the street because they CHOSE to do drugs over shelter. We do not have a major homeless problem here in Spokane, we have a major DRUG problem and KREM2 news knows this and should report honestly!
We ha a tobacco cigarette smoking problem and a poverty problem.
Where are the sources you are using to determine that "....every single one of them who are not in shelters are on the street because they CHOSE to do drugs over the shelter."? I truly would like to know. "Every single one..."? Your comment sounds like personal speculation based off of minimal information.
Lower the damn rents
Scaring away customers and compromising safety? What if we worked together peer to peer to complement their situation. It is my understanding that shelters restrict their ability to work. Dumpsters are where malnourished folks go for a meal. We need less kicking to the curb and more integration.
I want to tell a short story on how I helped a homeless man with what little I had. I am in no leftist charity or church group either, I'm just someone who throws biased opinions under the rug and exercises common sense towards another human being.
There was one time in 2016 I was on my way home from school. It was really damn cold at night but i didn't care. I ran into one man underneath the Browne Street Bridge. I had two boxes of pizza, one for now another for later. I encountered him and I asked him how long have you been sitting out here in the cold? He told me a long time. I thought to myself that he sure as hell could be hungry. So I proposed a barter, I said to him, tell me your story, the reason you ended up homeless, and in exchange, I sat down with him and gave him my other box of pizza. It'd give him a couple of meals. And he told me that someone he truly loved passed away, and it made a significant turning point in his life. He could not turn past it. So he hit the bottle hard one night. The very next day, he could not go to work because he was vomiting from hitting the bottle hard that night and the one he just lost. As a result, he's let go from the curve of income he barely had to begin with and he tried really hard for another job, he could not get another job before his landlord kicked him to the streets. As a result of losing someone he loved and being kicked to the streets. Now he tried to find a shelter, and with all the serious busines a director of a shelter is bound to enforce, it did not provide him an opportunity to earn any extra money. It barely gave him heat and fed him and a place to sleep. Eventually the rogue conditions forced him to checkout. I found connecting the dots that the only way he could make a few bucks to barely feed himself is to deal some drugs. I disagree towards drug dealing myself but I understood we all pride on money and he needed money. So I had no money on me but I encouraged him to barter. I asked him what skills he had, and told me I can clean, I can cook, if I was not out here on the streets, I have a few premium recipes. I said awesome. Than with what little I have, I encouraged him the next morning to head over to the nearest coffee shop and propose to clean for a cup of coffee. I told him you may not see me tomorrow but I want you to look at what goods and services you have to trade with a business or another person. Peer to peer bartering. And to sit down with the business owner and talk to them. If they say no, nothing will be gained nor lost. Just try elsewhere and you may find yourself a deal. Keep trying and never give up. He told me he would go for it and we parted ways as I needed to finish heading home. And I thought to myself, if he tries, I will never know but giving him the credit for the positive, I had a good feeling he would try. Next time I went around the same place, he wasn't there stop I felt proud to see a homeless man over what little he had in exchange for his basic needs try to barter for something little to help him out.
This writes home to me because one thing I learned is that if you approach a homeless man in a threatening manner, then that is how your safety gets compromised, if you kick them to the curb, they will do what they have to in order to survive, if a business owner gives a homeless man a little job like wipe down the tables in exchange for something to eat, the business owner scratches a duty off their list and the homeless gets a real bite to eat.
Instead of being weary of homelessness, be humble, there are always going to be a few customers that complain but attractiveness can be achieved by treating a homeless man with compassion and being willing to exchange an errand for some food or drinks. For convenience stores, it closed be running a note to someone for a little bit of grooming supplies. Anything is plausible, the more we encourage people to move just an idea that no longer works, the more we can lift a homeless man up from the ground.
Buy the homeless a bus ticket to LA.
get yourself one too.....please just go
Old concept
It's like LA in Spokane. That's why we left. All the tax dollars go to Olympia,WA.
Should move the jail out of downtown area and into a bigger location so they have a higher capacity and actually be able to do their jobs. Ive had a lot of weird interactions the 2 years I've been here and I think it's a little out of hand. Maybe even do something for the parking situation downtown to help with businesses
Make tiny house village
Greed is responsible for most of the homelessness. Homeless have mental health issues that aren't always addressed; it's difficult to treat mental health problems without proper treatment and understanding of the basic human needs and rights.. you sleep comfortable in a mansion while humble person is happy to have a roof over their head without furniture or food. Jesus said blessed are the poor.
And so, the right solution is treatment, not handouts. You can't bandaid the issue, you have to go to the root and fix it. (At the same time, the people have to WANT treatment, and some of them don't ... not yet anyway... maybe when they hit rock bottom.)
The trouble with treatment is, we need to be willing to pay taxes for it. Some people want no more taxes. Some people just want their taxes to stop going to useless handouts. Maybe those people would be happy to pay a new tax if they knew it would be going to actually useful treatment programs.
I think that's a big part of why Woodward won - people do want to give them proper, effective help!
Wasnt done with my rant.....if any of you had to live that life for one month, you would change your tune......I just read somewhere that Spokane is considered one of the most selt centered cities out there....and I would agree, this city will help as long as it is convenient and makes itself look good....pathetic, Im from here and this story made me disgusted.....no wonder Spokane has the rep it does....this homeless issue is bringing out peoples true colors...
Most of the kind people left, those still here like me are scraping to stay up or fearing having to leave it behind go live with relative or out of their car. Spokane is a black holes with a Crow curse on it to all who take the land and who move here and are not born here will be stuck here is what I was told. I honestly fear going homeless again. Being a woman and no shelter honestly scares me. I never got Justice for what happened which caused it just 28yr waiting list for a probono lawyer to review my case. I want my life back but these Elites didn't like me looking for missing people and buying a icp CD.
You want to put all of the homeless in one area or you might want to check with Gainesville Florida and find out how Grace's Marketplace worked out that place is so rapid with drugs and alcohol prostitutes that was a unpoliced community if you needed assistance he had to call the local yokels it actually could have been a good thing but it needed to be governed completely different than what it was
They are citing 47% reduction in local homelessness, 69% reduction of people literally living on the street and 2100 people moved into permanent housing.
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ANYONE CAN BECOME HOMELESS
More worksource centers for people that want to earn and work for a place to stay.
Make them start working for a place to sleep or food to eat . Make them show up at an appointed time and work for a specific amount of time . As soon as they realize that they have to BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEMSELVES they'll all go away .
Yep, it's got to cost them something. They have plenty of time to kill laying around the city, lets have them clean this place up.
randy scott Exactly!! Clean streets, landscaping, whatever...but do something!
@taeyungie I consider rehab work. You do your treatment (for drugs or mental health), or you work, or you don't get. (Yes, we need more free rehab programs, and more free mental healthcare.)
Most homeless are disabled or mentally ill. Spokane County hasn't even accepted APPLICATIONS for rental assistance since 2016...!!??!! You know how to cure homelessness? Provide small apartments, mental health assistance and drug counseling - give these people the help they need and they would be the first to "do something". Compassion not judgmental attitudes is what is needed.
@@iceangel1701d You're right with the part about a stable roof over their head . That's actually what it all starts with . A regular steady safe place to sleep .
Addiction in drugs and alcohol is one of the cause of homelessness in spokane. They cannot stay in a shelter if they are drunk or in drugs. So they choose to stay on the street at nigth. I think majority of homeless in spokane are not from here.
These not bums these twerkers🤣 it’s twerkervill downtown🤣😂
Have them get a job
they have to get sober first
1200 homeless in Spokane? Who are you guys kidding? What did the counting people do, only count one in 5? What a joke. GET THESE POOR FOLK HELP and stop wishing they would just go away! If Spokane spent the money they are paying the multiple trucks and workers they have to pay to clean up the TONS of debris left behind by these people and instead put it into social housing we might actually make some progress.
You do not understand.
About 40 billion dollars (± what trump wants to spend on a wall) could house all the homeless in the usa.
Or just a tiny, tiny fraction of what trump gave to the rich in tax cuts.
Wall must be built. If that 40 billion is spent on homelessness, they will grow 400 times in number. People need to stop reckless life, drugs and start working hard and live by their wage. Many have become homeless due to extreme carelessness.
yeah, that's exactly why you don't see homeless outside of big cities. . .there's no handouts in the rural areas. When are you going to figure that out?
Peter Terpstra, your liberal ass is the reason for all the homeless in this country now. Oh yeah let's just not have a wall, keep letting people pour into this country, take jobs, get more drivers on the road to create more traffic, take more beautiful land to build them houses, give them more resources and government funds, until this country is completely drained of everything. You liberal fucks are just so God damn ignorant its crazy!!
And have rules for them oh no they will not go because of rules most are jobless and homeless by choice and they play the victim game no one owe them anything
Theres 3 mens shelter, and a few womens shelters. Sorry. Being on the street is a choice.
Sometimes theyre full and 2 of them arent open part of the day. So not always.