Submitted by Guesthood (not verified) on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 3:17pm.
You obviously don't care because you don't live in this area. Most the beer cans you see are from the homeless walkers these areas get as well as those that cut through our neighborhood tossing their trash out the window. A majority of actual "home owners" do respect their neighborhood. You can't control the crackhead slumlords that rent their homes out to anyone.
Nobody here is saying they're better than the homeless. I'm sure we'd all love to help them out...the problem is that this "transitional housing" that they're proposing will sound good on paper and then a month or two later it'll be poorly maintained..no matter what they say. If the city worked with these groups to make sure they maintain the standards they claim they will...then we'd probably be OK with it. The problem is that we know they aren't going to. They claim they wont allow drugs or alcohol in this area...yeah right. I'd love to see them checking the grocery bags every time someone enters to make sure that doesn't happen. Colleges say that all the time with their dorms and where do most collage kids get drunk...in their dorm.
With the money they'd need to convert this place into the few condos that it'll hold (as well as the trailers they want to add) take that money and buy some of the properties that aren't selling closer to downtown and the drypond area and set up housing there. You're closer to grocery stores, closer to downtown, closer to public transportation. How is transitional housing for the number that this will hold really put a dent in the 500+ rumored homeless in the city.
If there really was that big of a problem then the city shouldn't have sold Soloman Towers and should just fix up Nesbitt Court. That place will hold more than this place will. We see how well that area was kept up. We're all just afraid it's going to just turn into another Dove Meadows...and we don't need that.
Re: Are you kidding?