We often don't "have space" since Road Home was closed and, with three multi-million-dollar "resource centers," there are a net almost 400 fewer beds now. Closing down the Road Home before we knew whether there would be adequate beds was all about gentrifying the area around the Road Home and had nothing to do with serving and protecting the homeless people in our community. David has it exactly right: All we seem to hear from City "leadership" is why solutions can't be achieved. There is no real leadership, either on the state or local level. Let's hear about real solutions, like Joe Grenny is attempting to achieve. No one seems to be talking about a solution to the problem of mentally ill people refusing to come in out of the cold during winters when their decisions are driven by their mental illness. As a result, people are dying of exposure during the winters. We must get people mental health treatment when they pose a danger to themselves. We would prevent a mentally ill person from walking into a fire; we should do no less during freezing winter days and nights when mentally ill people are refusing to go inside.
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We often don't "have space" since Road Home was closed and, with three multi-million-dollar "resource centers," there are a net almost 400 fewer beds now. Closing down the Road Home before we knew whether there would be adequate beds was all about gentrifying the area around the Road Home and had nothing to do with serving and protecting the homeless people in our community.
David has it exactly right: All we seem to hear from City "leadership" is why solutions can't be achieved. There is no real leadership, either on the state or local level. Let's hear about real solutions, like Joe Grenny is attempting to achieve.
No one seems to be talking about a solution to the problem of mentally ill people refusing to come in out of the cold during winters when their decisions are driven by their mental illness. As a result, people are dying of exposure during the winters. We must get people mental health treatment when they pose a danger to themselves. We would prevent a mentally ill person from walking into a fire; we should do no less during freezing winter days and nights when mentally ill people are refusing to go inside.