By: Diane Benjamin
H/t a reader
The homeless camp by AutoZone in Normal had to be relocated for a sewer project.
They have been moved to Adelaide close to Normal’s water treatment plant:
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I’m told Normal used a small dump truck to move possessions. This location makes it harder for people serving them.
See a picture of the AutoZone mess they created: https://www.wglt.org/homeless-encampment-residents-in-normal-continue-to-relocate-after-planned-deadline
Are they going to trash the new location by a water plant? What could go wrong?
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Housing is never FREE – someone is always paying.
Housing requires continuous upkeep and maintenance – also not FREE.
I saw comments on FB regarding the SAFE-T act and how trespassing does not require jail time anymore which includes the homeless and everyone talks about the mental health issues amongst the homeless. Didn’t the jail specifically expand to add mental health services for those arrested? Correct me if I am wrong. Let’s just keep pushing the problems somewhere else instead of dealing with it by not allowing the homeless to invade public and private spaces and encourage them to move along. Tiny homes is an expensive bandaid and the taxpayers are on the hook again to pay for other people’s problems, many of which won’t be addressed and dealt with.
Seems like that was a talking point now
Agree Johanna.
Tiny homes are band aids for politicians. They temporarily hide a chronic wound so the politician doesn’t have to provide the real (sometimes painful) medicine that will heal the patient.
People that want to live in tents sadly have one form or another of sickness. Moving them to a nicer bed won’t heal them.
I watched a 60 Minutes a few weeks ago where California Governor Gavin Newsom actually made perfect sense. He is having the CA homeless now go through Care Court. They will be offered treatment or mental health care. Once they are through treatment they will be set up with housing. If they refuse then the court may assign a guardian to facilitate getting the services. I am 100% in agreement with this method. All lawmakers are too as it passed with full bipartisan support through the House. Hopefully our liberal governor will follow suit. Being mentally ill off meds or drug addicted or both is human suffering. And while we are free to make those choices, maybe we shouldn’t be as it is a miserable existence to be trapped by those hardships.
He’s running for president. How much money is behind this effort?
Pritzger will not follow suit. He doesn’t make any intelligent decisions.
Sometimes leftists stumble upon the solutions that the right knew from the beginning, but not before billions of dollars and thousands of lives are lost.
He said it’s no different than the money they put into the homeless already.
Housing medical care etc costs much more than cleaning up occasionally and maybe providing food
Another thing I would like to mention is the concept of when helping hurts. Those who are able need to get out and work and live like the rest of us. Many who are out there panhandling can work if they can stand out in all kinds of weather begging for money. They just don’t want to, they love the life of no rules and doing what they please. Those on drugs and alcohol, don’t want to give it up. I know someone at the mission who grips about the rules and no drinking and she is a drug user. She has also been in jail and prison for theft and drug use and right now in a drug treatment program that she complains about. She has to get a job and she just enrolled at Heartland. A friend of mine and I have told her numerous times on how she can’t have that entitlement attitude. She is very defiant with a smart mouth and thinks she can talk and act however she wants and is constantly asking for money which she always uses for drugs. I never gave her any but my friend got burned a few times before she quit giving her some.
Amazingly enough the WGLT stories never mention the aftermath of the tent cities. Why aren’t those who’ve created the mess required to clean it up? Even some of the locations where people hold signs asking for money are left a mess. I frequently see this at the entrance to the HyVee lot. Moving them around or giving them housing will never fully address the problem. You’d think if the situation was causing the man’s dog problems he’s find a way to fix it. It’s a problem that unfortunately will never be solved.
Facilitating their move to yet another location is ridiculous! Why were they not required to clean up their mess?
Enabling makes leftists feel superior
What happened about Earth Day… you know, not littering & taking care of the environment?
These people would rather spend their .gov handouts on intoxicants than anything else including rent.
Give em a bus ticket to California. Better weather, better “benefits” and better drugs. What’s not to like?
What’s with the green tent still next to the tracks? Someone is still living there despite stories saying everyone is gone. He was still there today.