"We would never do that [close it down] without having housing available for every single resident" - and who is going to pay for that?? I mean what a joke.
Taxpayers are going to pay for it, but it's actually worse than that. Under the guidelines set up for that Nashville government office, the residents of the camp cannot be forced out of the camp until each resident has had the opportunity to turn down two offers of housing. It's not an issue of there not being housing available, but an issue of the camp residents not wanting to accept the conditions that are attached to accepting housing assistance.
If you want to see how this is likely to play out, look at how long it took for the city to clear out the homeless camp in Brookmeade Park. Contrast that with how quickly the city cleared out a homeless camp near Fort Negley, after a developer showed an interest in the land (which turned out to be a slave burial ground, so the development plans were scrapped after the camp was cleared out).
The real problem that these commenters have is that no matter how they keep complaining, most of the people in Nashville do not hate the more humble among us and know that everybody has to be somewhere.
Then let them move in with you. Seems like the simplest solution. Or does the fact that there was an attempted rape along the greenway featured in this story, make you reluctant to do that?
Dude, there are homeless encampments showing up in Madison Area of Nashville. I will start getting photos and video of these encampments, and expose them and send my videos and photos to all local news channels for something to get done.
"We would never do that [close it down] without having housing available for every single resident" - and who is going to pay for that?? I mean what a joke.
Taxpayers are going to pay for it, but it's actually worse than that. Under the guidelines set up for that Nashville government office, the residents of the camp cannot be forced out of the camp until each resident has had the opportunity to turn down two offers of housing. It's not an issue of there not being housing available, but an issue of the camp residents not wanting to accept the conditions that are attached to accepting housing assistance.
If you want to see how this is likely to play out, look at how long it took for the city to clear out the homeless camp in Brookmeade Park. Contrast that with how quickly the city cleared out a homeless camp near Fort Negley, after a developer showed an interest in the land (which turned out to be a slave burial ground, so the development plans were scrapped after the camp was cleared out).
The real problem that these commenters have is that no matter how they keep complaining, most of the people in Nashville do not hate the more humble among us and know that everybody has to be somewhere.
Then let them move in with you. Seems like the simplest solution. Or does the fact that there was an attempted rape along the greenway featured in this story, make you reluctant to do that?
Open your yard for the Homeless Tents or your Home.
Free housing for junkies, perverts and criminals fleeing from justice! What a joke!
Stimulus money NOT deportees
Dude, there are homeless encampments showing up in Madison Area of Nashville. I will start getting photos and video of these encampments, and expose them and send my videos and photos to all local news channels for something to get done.
It's called CAPITALISM.