Comments on: Thoughts On The “Homeless Problem”

By: Goteburg

Goteburg — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:15:04 +0000

The RVs dump human waste all over the place, so it’s not just an eyesore. The city simply MUST disallow these things. They’re gross and will multiply if unchecked.

By: Are you kidding?

Are you kidding? — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:00:30 +0000

It would be appropriate for the city elected to comment about this and take up this issue of homelessness and the imposition on others rights, code enforcement and the places that look (and sometimes smell) like s#*t, and the excess of debris and junk all over the neighborhoods that are being taxed and taxed and taxed. Doesn’t part of that take the city gets belong to the enforcement needs? You bet it does. What say you, mayor and council? What is the plan? If you ignore it it does not go away. Wake up!

By: western guy

western guy — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:27:34 +0000

The solution to cleaning up Boise is to task Code Enforcement with just doing their job. Stop the ‘complaint-driven’ approach and start being PROACTIVE. Forget the shiny and new and overdeveloped; focus on the other 95% of the city that needs cleaned up.

Ignore new animal ordinances…. get health and safety enforced.

By: TFThey

TFThey — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:35:18 +0000

You asked for a solution. Meridian had a solution and did a deep clean of their city years ago. It can be done. A task force might help. The department who runs it, finance, has no expertise in code enforcement. It belongs in the police department. A public task force to wake them up and ask for results oriented compensation, like all departments do.

By: David

David — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 04:32:31 +0000

I read the other day that Portland was very much in danger of becoming the next Detroit.

San Francisco funnels good money to one too many private groups who spend it on themselves first. Google contributes to SFs problem by underpaying their employees and expecting them to live in their cars. Look it up if you don’t believe it.

Most of this is politicians looking to use their job to enrich themselves. Helping someone is never a priority, but helping a developer is always a priority. Looking at Tommy Alquist.

Finland has solved their homeless problem. Free housing, stipend to live on, etc. They refer to it as Dignity.

Denmark and Uruguay give away drugs for free. The users have to take the drugs in special clinics so there’s no chance of them taking an overdose or using dirty needles and spreading diseases among each other, there’s always staff ready to help them if they want to get off the drugs, and it’s a lot more effective way to help more people because addicts come into contact with professionals who want to help them. Again Dignity.

Nobody wants to be homeless or an addict. Though they often end up getting involved in criminality because of their situation, the act of being homeless or an addict is not a crime in itself and the people deserve help like anyone else.

Plenty of room for the homeless on any Golf Course (especially public ones) in the valley and the LDS Churches parking lots for example. The LDS Church has a net worth of $150-Billion, yet only help 1% if that. Link to the story on the LDS Church. https://bit.ly/3aGmIZJ

Politicians only want to help the well-to-do (donors) and developers. They also have a fundamental misunderstanding of their very own cities. Basically, they are stupid.

By: western guy

western guy — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 19:19:10 +0000

Certainly, some of the RV street parking is due to folks without permanent, traditional houising.

BUT, drive down any street, any street, in Boise (socioeconomic level doesn’t matter — except the lower soc econ areas have MORE problems) and you will see: contractor trailers parked on the street, grass, etc., boats, RV’s and trailers parked on same; stacked auto tires, and just plain JUNK.

City Hall: get this cleaned up. Forget about new development for six months.

By: JJ

JJ — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 19:16:35 +0000

It is a difficult issue but we can learn from San Fransisco about what not to do, that is flushing money down the toilet for so-called “progressive” programs to help the homeless. SF spends $300M a year to combat homelessness, yet it went up 17% between 2017-2019. SF now has 8,100 homeless people in the City. To illustrate how ineffective their policies are and how they are funneling millions to local “non-profits” for ineffective programs, the cost to house 8,100 people based on available studio apartments or two people sharing a 1-2 bedroom apartment would cost $78M annually. Only in crazy SF does spending more than 3X the cost of the problem to only have the problem grow make sense. The current mayor has decided the solution is… drum roll…. spend more money on the same programs that made no difference.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/05/18/san-francisco-homeless-rises-17-after-city-spends-300-million-annually-to-solve-problem-n2546530

By: Dissapointed in the public servants

Dissapointed in the public servants — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 05:13:02 +0000

If the City had made consistent effort to get affordable housing built along with luxury housing, we would probably have less of a problem now. But the City’s own record shows where they dropped the ball.

On page 144 in the City’s Five-Year Consolidated Plan 2016-2020, which is a plan required by H.U.D., it says, “From 2011 to 2015, there was no production of new affordable rental housing units in Boise.” They obviously were too busy making plans for a mega library/civic center, a sports stadium, and a white water park for a handful of surfers to use, to the tune of $12+ million dollars.

By: western guy

western guy — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 03:14:25 +0000

In addition to hte homeless trash and RV’s, this city is littered (like it?) with RV’s, trailers of all sizes and types, parked on lawns, on the streets, etc.

Why isn’t Code Enforcement enforcing the city codes that are on the books?

Ask City Hall.

EDITOR NOTE–Amen! And good idea for future store.

By: Are you kidding?

Are you kidding? — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 23:43:50 +0000

There is no fat paycheck at the top of this industry. You sound a bit greedy and suspicious.

The city does have enforcement mechanisms, and they need to use them if they don’t want these pictures on their campaign literature.