Perhaps you’re wondering how the worst-behaved transients feel about the Native Americans:
Clothes and gear drying out on the Chief Niwot statue.
While we can’t allow transients to freeze to death here during wintertime, and therefore need adequate emergency overnight shelter available on a walk-up basis, the goal should be to assist them in returning to wherever they came from — other counties in Colorado or even other states. As far as I can determine, this is NOT the focus now. WTF?
— MRW
DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY, STOP ENABLING INCOMPETENT DO-GOODERS!
By Max R. Weller
Read the report in the Daily Camera here. Copied below in its entirety:
One year after recording its latest first measurable snow, Boulder County is expected to see its inaugural blanket of white for the fall season by Monday, about a week ahead of its average date for that benchmark.
Forecasters are calling for up to 4 inches of snow in Boulder County, with the event starting off as rain before midnight Sunday, turning to snow and then snowing much of the day Monday, which in Boulder is celebrated as Indigenous Peoples Day and is recognized at the federal level as Columbus Day.
“This is a system coming in from the west. We’re getting the downslope winds now, coming out of the Pacific west,” said Nezette Rydell, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service in Boulder. “It’s a normal wintertime system coming at us.”
A hazardous weather warning on the NWS website Friday stated “Enough snow may accumulate on trees to cause damage. As temperatures fall Sunday night into early Monday, some snow or slush accumulation will be possible on roads as well. A hard freeze is also likely across the entire area Monday night as skies clear behind the storm system.”
In 2016, Boulder County did not see its first autumn snow until Nov. 17, with Boulder recording 3 inches that day and Longmont 1.7 inches. Previously, the latest first snow in Boulder had fallen Nov. 15, which occurred in 1987, 1988 and 2005.
The average date for first snow of the season in Boulder for the period 1948 to 2014 was Oct. 15.
The coming storm, Rydell said, “is a little early” for the first snowfall. “Most are mid-October or later. It’s a little bit early, but it’s not out of the realm of the usual. We’ve been having later (first) snow the last few years, mostly in the last half of October or early November.”
Boulder meteorologist Matt Kelsch on his weather blog Friday said “the questions are whether there will be substantial precipitation and whether that precipitation will last long enough to change to snow. Right now it appears likely that there will be at least measurable snow Monday or Monday evening along the Front Range and adjacent plains.”
He also noted, “Get ready for widespread frosts and freezes early next week, too.”
Summer only bowed out just over two weeks ago and fall foliage is only now coming into its own. But Rydell believes Boulderites won’t mind seeing their first glimpse of white in the city.
“I think the winter activists among us are ready for the winter snows, so bring it on,” she said. “It’s a holiday, so that helps.”
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What about emergency overnight shelter for the hundreds of homeless people — many of them transients from warmer climes who are not prepared for winter conditions here in Colorado — currently on the streets due to the inadequate number of beds available at Boulder Shelter for the Homeless (160)?
Another website (from which I’ve long since been blocked) is claiming that Bridge House Path to Home will expand the number of homeless people it takes in BEYOND THE CURRENT 50 PERSON LIMIT during the coming life-threatening weather. Here are the locations:
Doors Open from 7:00 PM– 9:00 PM
Monday
Atonement Lutheran
Inca at Baseline Bus 225
Tuesday
Boulder Mennonite
Broadway at Table Mesa Bus Skip
Wednesday and Thursday
St. Andrew
37th at Baseline Bus 225
Friday
Atonement Lutheran
Inca at Baseline Bus 225
Saturday
To be announced
Sunday
Congregation Har HaShem
37th at Baseline Bus 225
I advise calling ahead to be sure you can get in at (303) 442-8300 . . . The local news media has done a POOR job in getting word out, and the City of Boulder website is full of info irrelevant to homeless people’s immediate needs in this predicted snowstorm.
I hope nobody suffers frostbite or worse because bureaucrats and do-gooders in nonprofits have no idea how to prioritize a much-needed service like emergency overnight shelter for the homeless, both Boulder County residents and so-called travelers alike.
DONATING TO A NONPROFIT IS NOT THE SAME AS HELPING THE HOMELESS!
By Max R. Weller
Earlier today, I received an e-mail from someone who inquired about my welfare in view of the snowy forecast. This is my reply:
I’m prepared for the predicted snow, thanks to my previous experience here in wintertime and also to my friends. However, I’m wondering about all of the transients who will NOT have any walk-up emergency overnight shelter as of 10/8, NOR bus tickets back to their point of origin (and it seems that many are from the sunny South). It’s of no benefit to think about housing them several years down the road, while risking their lives in sub-freezing snowstorms. This is one reason I refuse to engage with the social services system in Boulder County, CO.
HELP BOULDER COUNTY’S OWN HOMELESS PEOPLE, NOT TRANSIENTS!
By Max R. Weller
Excerpt copied from the Daily Camera Facebook page:
Darren O’Connor: Council Member Andrew Shoemaker ran on an anti-homeless platform and has argued against expanding services because it will bring more homeless people to Boulder, but when he does, Human Services staff rebut this false assertion. They rebut it, because they’ve looked at the data and it doesn’t support this argument.
Robert Nelson: This Bridge House survey from 2013 is in line with what homeless people have been telling me for years: http://www.dailycamera.com/…/survey-more-than-half…
Darren O’Connor: 31% come from other parts of Colorado. About like the percentage of employees who come to Boulder every single day to fill our jobs.
Robert Nelson: Darren O’Connor, other parts of Colorado means (primarily) Denver, which we’ve known and opposed all along. Equating workers who commute to Boulder daily with transients coming to grab all the Free Stuff they can is just crazy.
Darren O’Connor: So you wish, Robert. You might be shocked to realize that people without money to spend in our town or work to do here have the same rights as anyone else. And your assertion that they come to grab free stuff is just that, an assertion. Have you talked with people and done a statistical sample to learn this, or just make it up because it fits your narrative?
Supreme Court Justice Stevens ruled in 1999 that the Constitution provides “the right to enter one state and leave another, the right to be treated as a welcome visitor rather than a hostile stranger.”
Robert Nelson: I’m homeless myself and have rubbed elbows with the good, the bad, and the ugly among both transients and Boulder County’s own homeless residents (who are being shortchanged on limited resources by so-called travelers) for many years now. Are you now or have you ever been homeless yourself? Are you now or have you ever been an employee of any homeless shelter / services provider? (I have extensive work experience doing so.) It seems to me that you engage in a lot of self-promotion and do NOTHING whatsoever for those of us who are homeless residents of Boulder. Things are changing now, and I hope that travelers will get all the consideration they deserve: Bus tickets back to wherever they came from, inside or outside of Colorado, and sack lunches to-go.
Darren O’Connor: So you’re unable to get a meal, unable to stay in a shelter, and unable to get any mental health or other services because so-called travelers are eating up the resources? I doubt any of that is true.
Robert Nelson: Darren O’Connor, you’re just full of unwarranted assumptions! FYI, I buy my own food at King Soopers, live outdoors year-round with appropriate camping gear (NEVER gotten a ticket), and I don’t use any other services except for my morning shower at Boulder Shelter for the Homeless (where I also keep a small locker). I donate to various charities, including BSH, and NOT just nickels and dimes. Maybe you should expand your horizons, and begin to meet the 80% (my estimate) of the homeless in Boulder who are able to behave decently.
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And that’s where I’ll leave the debate, which really is more of a glimpse into the mind of one priggish and condescending do-gooder, Darren O’Connor of Boulder Rights Watch:
HELP BOULDER COUNTY’S OWN HOMELESS PEOPLE, NOT TRANSIENTS!
By Max R. Weller
1) See Coordinated entry: Boulder County rolling out new system focusing on ending homelessness in the Times-Call here. There’s that phrase again — “ending homelessness” — one that reflects magical thinking, just like belief in the powers of Rainbows & Unicorns.
Look, people, you cannot coerce the homeless into reforming their lives to fit your well-intended but mistaken idea of how everyone else should live. Maybe some will jump through a few hoops in order to access shelter and services that might be denied to them otherwise, but here’s the truth: There are HUNDREDS more homeless people, including a large group of transients from outside of Boulder County, CO (and even from other states) than available housing units, and that’s how it will be for the foreseeable future. Sure, maybe 1 in 10 will get into housing in a homeless ghetto project, but for everyone else (including the Homeless Philosopher) there will NOT be any decent alternative to living either “on the streets” or in emergency shelters. (BTW, Boulder Shelter for the Homeless will still have a lottery in place for emergency overnight beds even after the “new system” is in place. See New Boulder Shelter for the Homeless services overview.)
BOTTOM LINE: This new system does NOT address the problem of Boulder County being a destination city for Marijuana Travelers, registered sex offenders, and undesirable drifters in general. The numbers will overwhelm it, and the new system will quickly prove to be a quagmire of broken promises and unfulfilled expectations — BUT it will, no doubt, cost a lot more $$$! How many times does it have to be pointed out that valid photo ID with a Boulder County address and proof of at least one year’s residency for anyone seeking shelter / services is the only practical way to manage things? And bus tickets for the transients are a more cost-effective option than local courts and jail; can anyone dispute this?
2) A couple of young, stupid travelers have set up a tent in the trees along the irrigation ditch, on private property belonging to my acquaintance Railroad Man (who has a caboose and a sleeper car in his yard). RM hasn’t noticed ’em yet, but when he does they’ll be told to leave pronto. I’ll be happy to see the dumba**es go, because they talk loudly out all hours of the night, disturbing my much-needed beauty rest:
The Homeless Philosopher
3) As I was waiting outside of CU’s Norlin Library for it open at 10AM this morning, a group of Asian and Amerasian coeds was having photos taken near the west entrance. A couple of the young ladies were struggling to walk in 4″ heels, but the most memorable for me was the skinny chick in a sheer tube dress and no underwear. Really; the sun was out and caught her at just the right angle to reveal everything. Now I feel like a Dirty Old Man because I failed to avert my eyes quickly enough:
Ruth Buzzi (Gladys) and Arte Johnson (Tyrone) from “Laugh-In”
4) It’s been raining for a week, and I surely wish it would STOP. I did get the chance to dry out all of my gear yesterday morning, before it clouded over again, but in my absence somebody had been rummaging through my stuff. They didn’t take anything, however; very odd.
HELP BOULDER COUNTY’S OWN HOMELESS PEOPLE, NOT TRANSIENTS!
The Homeless Philosopher
See the letter-to-the-editor of the Daily Camera here. Copied below in its brevity:
One hundred sixty beds at Boulder Shelter for the Homeless and 1,600 “unique individuals” with no priority given to those who have struggled to survive here for years? They’re called residents,even if homeless! What is being proposed in the Daily Camera article “Boulder City Council supports year-round use of homeless shelter” is a travesty of compassion.
Unless Boulder’s powers-that-be show some gumption and require valid photo ID with a Boulder County address and proof of at least one year’s residency here, the 160 available beds at Boulder Shelter for the Homeless will have a majority of transients (and/or registered sex offenders, another issue nobody wants to face up to) from outside of Boulder County (and some from other states) filling them. And where, pray tell, does Councilman Aaron Brockett think the 1,440 “unique individuals” who fail to get a bed in the shelter will be hanging out? I live in that neighborhood, too, since early 2008 — and I know that many of the worst-behaved transients will remain there; others will continue to overrun Pearl Street Mall, Boulder Creek Path, various city parks, our main library, University Hill, etc.
The City Council is living in a rainbows and unicorns fantasy regarding homelessness, just as they are with municipalization.
Letting these characters lie around both night and day in their shelter bunks is ludicrous; when the Homeless Philosopher has proposed keeping BSH open as a homeless people’s day center, with access to many different services under that one roof, he meant it should be available to all homeless people on a walk-up basis. And certainly, providing bus tickets for transients to return to their own counties in Colorado or to other states would be a big part of what is offered in ideal circumstances.
Max R. Weller
Boulder
(E-mailed to Boulder City Council.)
HELP BOULDER COUNTY’S OWN HOMELESS PEOPLE, NOT TRANSIENTS!
By Max R. Weller
160 beds at Boulder Shelter for the Homeless and 1,600 “unique individuals” with NO priority given to those who have struggled to survive here for years? They’re called RESIDENTS, even if homeless! What is being proposed in the Daily Camera article Boulder City Council supports year-round use of homeless shelter, copied below in its entirety, is FUBAR once you examine it closely — unless you’re a lazy young traveler from who-knows-where or a registered sex offender:
Krissy Fox and Daniel Bing, who say they are homeless, hang out on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on Monday. (Paul Aiken / Staff Photographer)
City Council members and some homeless advocates are hopeful that a change to the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless management plan will improve, not worsen, neighborhood relations for the shelter.
Following a three-hour discussion and public hearing Tuesday night, the council voted unanimously to approve a requested update to the management plan.
Under the drafted changes, the shelter, which sits along north Broadway near the northwest edge of the city, would open 160 beds year-round for homeless people classified as having “moderate” or “high” needs.
Those people would be allowed to stay at the shelter during the daytime, which is a change from the current system that sends clients away in the morning and welcomes them back in the evening.
Overall, the changes would represent a shift away from walk-up and night-by-night servicing and toward something more long term, in which some clients might stay a year or more in the building, according to Boulder Human Services Director Karen Rahn.
“I see these changes as making those impacts (on the neighborhood) smaller,” said Councilman Aaron Brockett, who lives near the shelter. “In the past, you had 1,600 unique individuals coming to a shelter in a given year. That number is going to go down dramatically.”
“Also, by allowing people to stay there during the day, you’re going to change the migration as well,” he added, referencing the current system that requires people to leave in the morning, and often encourages a flurry of homeless activity at particular times of day, in particular spots.
Mike Homner, a local homeless advocate, applauded the new approach.
“I am absolutely astounded that we’re hopefully going to use the shelter year-round,” he said.
His comments were echoed by several others.
But some remain wary, as will be on display Oct. 2 when the shelter hosts a “good neighbor meeting” to discuss proposed changes with those who live nearby. The meeting is planned for 5:30 p.m. at the Shining Mountain Waldorf School Gymnasium, 999 Violet Ave.
One neighbor who spoke at Tuesday’s public hearing said to expect to hear significant pushback and concern at that meeting, which several council members said they would attend.
The upcoming shift at the shelter is part of a broader change to Boulder’s response to homelessness, as reflected in a strategic document approved earlier this summer.
Starting Oct. 1, the city will transition toward a program that begins with “coordinated entry” and “navigation” services. Boulder will look to establish what is effectively a one-stop shop for homeless people seeking help.
They’d arrive at the facility — the long-term location of which is not yet known, though city staff say they’re closing in on a spot — and meet with case management staff who would then, based on a screening, refer clients either to the shelter, if their needs are higher, or to the “navigation” side, if their needs are lesser.
In the latter case, clients would then be moved toward the services they may need, including mental health care or rental assistance, city staff says.
Boulder is also working toward creating 35 “permanent supportive and rapid rehousing opportunities” for Boulder’s homeless, as support for the new strategy’s general goal to emphasize exits from homelessness, as opposed to emergency, “Band-Aid” responses.
“I think this new strategy that really emphasizes investing in getting people up and out of homelessness, rather that just in emergency shelter, is the right way to go,” Mayor Suzanne Jones said.
“I also think the shelter is a community asset and we should figure out how to make the most of it. These recommended changes, to me, make good sense in terms of really utilizing that resource year-round.”
Meanwhile, it appears that weather concerns are among the outstanding issues heading into the colder season.
In 2016, city staff reported, there were 21 days in Boulder County that qualified as having weather severe enough to trigger the opening of a special shelter.
But there are many more than 21 days from October through May that present severe health risks to those who remain outdoors, some argued at Tuesday’s meeting. Homner told council members he knows people who’ve lost digits to frostbite in Boulder.
“You must approve emergency warming centers for every night,” Sara Jane Cohen implored.
“It seems to me,” Brockett followed, later in the meeting, “that 20 days in a winter, we’re not going to get to the bar of keeping people from freezing to death.”
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Unless Boulder’s powers-that-be show some gumption and REQUIRE valid photo ID with a Boulder County address and proof of at least one year’s residency here, the 160 available beds at BSH will have a majority of transients (and/or registered sex offenders, another issue nobody wants to face up to) from outside of Boulder County (and some from other states) filling them. And where, pray tell, does Councilman Aaron Brockett think the 1,440 “unique individuals” who fail to get a bed in the shelter will be hanging out? I live in that neighborhood, too, since early 2008 — and I know that many of the worst-behaved transients will remain there; others will continue to overrun Pearl Street Mall, Boulder Creek Path, various city parks, our Main Library, University Hill, etc. The City Council is living in a Rainbows & Unicorns fantasy regarding homelessness, just as they are with municipalization.
Letting these characters lie around both night and day in their shelter bunks is ludicrous; when the Homeless Philosopher has proposed keeping BSH open as a homeless people’s day center, with access to many different services under that one roof, he meant it should be available to ALL homeless people on a walk-up basis . . . And certainly, providing bus tickets for transients to return to their own counties in Colorado or to other states would be a big part of what is offered in ideal circumstances.
HELP BOULDER COUNTY’S OWN HOMELESS PEOPLE, NOT TRANSIENTS!
By Max R. Weller
Read the article from the Times-Call here. Copied below in its entirety:
Longmont City Councilman Brian Bagley listens during public comment at a City Council meeting in July. (Matthew Jonas / Staff Photographer)
Longmont’s City Council needs to consider what it can do to address the growing problems caused by transients converging on the community, Councilman Brian Bagley suggested on Tuesday night.
Bagley said that from what he’s seen and has heard from small businesses — particularly along Main Street — those problems include people urinating, defecating, sleeping in stores’ back and front entrances, using drugs and even illegally tapping into electric power outlets.
Some of those businesses report having lost customers, and their renters complain about the noise from blaring music in the middle of the night, Bagley said.
“I just think we need to come up with a plan” for dealing with the situation, he said during Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. “It’s getting worse.”
Bagley suggested that the city staff present a report during a future meeting on “what we’re going to do with these transients.”
Other cities have probably had to deal with the issue, he said, asking: “What have they done? What works?”
Mayor Dennis Coombs, one of the owners of the Pumphouse Brewery at 540 Main St., said he’s also been contacted by the owner of one nearby business — the Dairy Queen at 616 Main St. — with complaints about the activities of transients who have been gathering in the area.
However, “I don’t know what the solutions are,” Coombs said.
City Manager Harold Dominguez said the city staff already has begun to look for “a more comprehensive strategy” for dealing with lawbreaking transients and had already intended to schedule a council tour of some of the areas frequented by transients — to be followed by putting the issue on a subsequent council agenda.
Dominguez said police and others are reporting that transients’ encounters with authorities “are becoming more aggressive.” (Emphasis is mine — MRW.)
Programs to assist the homeless are intended “to focus on those who really want to change their conditions,” he said, as opposed to people who are homeless because it is “a lifestyle choice.”
The city staff has also talked about the need to engage Longmont’s business community and neighborhoods frequented by transients in order to come up with solutions, Dominguez said.
Based on other cities’ experiences, “It’s really a process that takes the community to resolve,” he said.
Bagley suggested there is a difference between problems faced by Longmont individuals and families who become homeless and require assistance to recover from that status, and problems caused by transients “who come to Longmont” but aren’t originally from here.
“We need to figure out what’s bringing them here and fix it,” said Bagley, who is in a three-way contest with Roger Lange and Sarah Levison for mayor in this fall’s city election. (Emphasis is mine — MRW.)
Bagley said what he wants from the city staff is a presentation of what the city’s options are and then for the council to set formal policies for the staff to follow.
“What is our plan?” he asked.
Councilwoman Polly Christensen said, “It’s really a problem of very few people doing a huge amount of damage.”
She added: “That’s what we have to deal with.”
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I’m glad to see that they’re starting with the commonsense viewpoint that the Transient Migration to Boulder County is NOT something positive to be enabled, and certainly NOT deserving of millions of taxpayer $$$ to support it. That alone sets Longmont City Council apart from our elected leaders here in Boulder.
I hope Longmont will follow through and send the so-called travelers on down the road; paying for the bus tickets on RTD to Denver, and tossing in sack lunches to-go, is far more cost-effective than citing BUMS into court or tossing them into jail. BUT, if a particular troublemaker comes back after being given the chance to leave, THEN you can lower the boom.
Councilman Bagley seems like he would be an effective mayor for Longmont . . .
SHELTER THE SURVIVORS OF SEX CRIMES, NOT THE PREDATORS!
By Max R. Weller
See the report in the Daily Camera here. Copied below in its entirety:
The outside of the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless as seen on Nov. 24, 2015. (Brent Lewis / The Denver Post)
The Boulder Shelter for the Homeless is starting the process to inform neighbors of the facility about proposed changes to its management plan and seek input from neighborhood.
The “good neighbor process,” as it is being called, includes a public hearing before the Boulder City Council at 7 p.m. Sept. 19, in the council’s chambers at 1777 Broadway, to discuss the proposed changes and allow the public to provide input.
The management plan describes how the shelter operates, including the hours it is open, which is a requirement imposed by the city as a condition of the shelter’s land-use approval.
The Boulder City Council in June approved a new homelessness strategy that focuses on long-term solutions to the homelessness problem in Boulder.
Part of the city’s plan includes changes to the management plan at the shelter, specifically, allowing qualified residents to stay at the shelter year-round until permanent housing is found, and allowing those residents to stay at the shelter during the day.
“Qualified residents” are considered moderate- and high-need clients who are longer-term local residents unable to find housing without significant support. They are screened and assessed before acceptance into the shelter.
The shelter has planned a “good neighbor meeting” at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Shining Mountain Waldorf School Gymnasium, 999 Violet Ave., where businesses and residents near the shelter can provide feedback on planned changes, impacts on the neighborhood and how to address the impacts.
More information is available at bouldershelter.org.
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I wouldn’t trust a word they have to say. Remember their meeting regarding Housing First at 1175 Lee Hill a few years ago, which they shut down when it became obvious that neighborhood residents were insisting on having tough questions answered honestly? See the YouTube video here.
What about registered sex offenders (including Sexually Violent Predators most likely to re-offend) who are being welcomed to this facility?
You know, the hippies of the ’60s and ’70s had NO homeless shelter / services industry to serve their needs. By all accounts I’ve heard from Boulderites who were here in that era, the hippies were much happier and more peaceful than the characters in today’s Transient Migration to Boulder County, CO.
— MRW
HELP BOULDER COUNTY’S OWN HOMELESS PEOPLE, NOT TRANSIENTS!
By Max R. Weller
It’s been debunked time and again, but this morning I saw the same tired old talking points in a letter-to-the-editor of the Daily Camera by Isaac Furtney, who apparently lives here in Boulder, CO. He quotes someone in a group called the Homeless Task Force in Utah, and goes on to use the same phony math about cost savings — which ignores the HUGE upfront costs of building new housing or converting existing buildings for housing the “chronically homeless” (this is the deceptive tactic used by Housing First proponents in Boulder regarding 1175 Lee Hill, which cost $8M+).
You want to have a serious discussion? Use a better, more reliable source for info on homelessness than Comedy Central’s funny guy Jon Stewart. Here’s what the Homeless Philosopher wrote about this issue back in 2015:
For a long while now, we’ve been treated to propaganda about how Housing First is ending “chronic homelessness” in our neighboring state of Utah. Time and again, I’ve pointed out two relevant facts:
1) The chronically homeless are only a tiny percentage of overall homeless numbers; and
2) There are about as many homeless people in Utah now as ever.
See the data for yourself, in the 2014 Comprehensive Report on Homelessness; scroll down to page 9 and peruse “Figure 3.1 Utah Homeless Point-In-Time Count, 2005 — 2014” (I wish I could find data organized in this way for Colorado).
In 2005, there were 13,690 homeless persons counted in Utah, 5,565 of them in families and 1,932 chronically homeless. After some variation up and down in numbers over the years, 2014 showed 13,621 homeless persons counted, with 6,312 of them in families and 539 chronically homeless. Yes, indeed, chronically homeless numbers — relatively small to begin with — have declined. But, the number of homeless people in families has increased and the number of homeless overall has remained steady.
My guess is that many of the chronically homeless simply moved on from Utah during this time, some of them probably coming here to the Denver/Boulder metro area in Colorado.
To tout this as a success for Housing First is to twist logic into a pretzel. Look at the entire picture, people. Don’t ALL homeless people count, not just the “chronically homeless”?
Boulder’s problem is that the do-gooders in our nonprofits, and up until lately city staff, have been attempting to deal with a Transient Migration, giving shelter / services to literally anybody coming from anywhere. IT DOESN’T WORK! We are shortchanging Boulder County’s own homeless men, women, and children by forcing them to compete for limited resources with drifters who have no ties to our city and county.
Far better and more cost-efficient to give these Travelers bus tickets on RTD to Denver, along with sack lunches to-go:
(These poor dogs should go to the Humane Society for adoption by caring owners.)
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