St Petersburg vs Tent City
St Petersburg city council are discussing if they are going to shut down tent city. It is safe to assume how this debate will go down. Deputy Mayor Goliath Davis already has stated homeless people camped at 18th Street and First Avenue N will be arrested.
The question is where are these people going to move to. The Lakewood United Church of Christ may need a permit to let homeless camp on their property. The city shut down the tent city on St Vincent De Paul property. The homeless hit the streets which is why the current problem exists. What is likely to happen is the city chases the homeless off of Lakewood United Church property. These people will be out in the open again. At least on church property there is greater safety and supervision.
Mayor Rick Baker has been his usual silent self on the matter.
The St Petersburg Times has a video of Rev. Bruce Wright talking to homeless people of the current situation.
The situation is a Mayor who lacks the political courage to voice his views on homelessness. A city that does not have shelters and breaks up one tent city after another. None of this has made the homeless problem go away. If anything, it as caused the city much unneeded negative press.
Has anyone heard a St Petersburg government official actually propose a plan to deal with homelessness? I haven't. Someone might want to think about that. Instead of playing whack-the-mole with the different tent cities.
Hat tip to Vox Populi.
Labels: homeless, rick baker, st petersburg, tent city
posted by Michael Hussey @ 6:22 PM
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They CREATED this situation and then claimed the homeless came from other states. As I type they are tearing down ANOTHER low cost housing project in order to build new bullshit condos with the affordable ones being priced at over 200,000. Just like Tampa. It, (of course) is a purposeful effort to get the poor out of FL and it has several underlying agendas. Jeb started it and charlie will finish it. FLorida's a wash. So far, Charlie === (while gathering praise somehow, perhaps through monopolization of the media or coolio photo ops)=== has done the opposite of what he said he would do. OR, the near opposite at least. WHY don't we RECALL governors when they fail to do as they say they will? They blamed the electric crisis on Davis in CA and that's how ahhnuld slithered in and now he has the primary boosted early batting 000 if I have my way.
I had hope for Charlie but it is soon going to become readily apparent (unless things change) that his rhetoric will not evolve into action. No voting rights. No lower insurance. Five million dollars to shut down a murder outcry (fuck, that's CHEAP!!) ...
He doesn't have a good record and he's running out of time to prove himself before we settle in for four more years of he, Pam and Rick.... as you would say -- I'm underwhelmed. I don't believe the voters had any say whatsoever in far too many of the races in this state. I am convinced that many so-called Democrats are Republicans-scratch-the-surface and that many reform party candidates we need to be leery of. (with the remarkable exception of a few) ... okay, sorry if this comment is too long
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