Wednesday, November 7
Heather MAcdonald and the City Journal slams the "Homeless Industry"-
SRO Housing Corporation Continues to solve Homelessness
No on was off limits in the article written by Heather Macdonald. Steve Lopez was called Blasi Inspired and called Antonio Villaraigosa's aides as also being caught up in the waves being made by Blasi a UCLA LAW Professor opposed to the Safer Cities Initiative.
My landlord was quoted and in full form as she defends the helpless and law abiding seniors and elderly in the SRO Housing Corporation Hotels.
Anita Nelson has always listened to the tenants when she arrived. I remember how she compromised with the allowance of Portable air conditioners after SRO instituted a policy of no air conditioners way back in 2004. Although we still had the tragedy in the Brownstone Hotel with the heat casualty this past September , I know she would have heard us and I think she still hears us.
But this article continues to slam those advocates who claim to speak for the homeless by switching it around on them. You just have to read it to understand how scathing this article is against those who oppose bringing any semblance of law into the community.
I have to agree with these statements. It is about behavior. But can we make the law be made to be adhered to in a place where the attitude from the whole world is that you can do what you want , whenever you want?
Read the Article for yourself to understand the other side ,which constantly wants and pines for law and order to prevail in skid row.
I do have issues with her call for forced institutionalization of the mentally ill , but I do agree that if there was a place that wasn't too prison like , I would be the first to go. If those who were sick allowed to keep their income and pay rent .
I am always calling for housing with onsite supportive services which include doctors , nurses , psychiatrists and , case managers , and a pharmacy. Isn't that what a state hospital is? At least that would not be skid row.
We have to change this. Just tonight I heard some horror stories that outreach workers from LAHSA have had to deal with in even the shelters with children. just 3 years ago.
SRO Housing Corporation Continues to solve Homelessness
No on was off limits in the article written by Heather Macdonald. Steve Lopez was called Blasi Inspired and called Antonio Villaraigosa's aides as also being caught up in the waves being made by Blasi a UCLA LAW Professor opposed to the Safer Cities Initiative.
My landlord was quoted and in full form as she defends the helpless and law abiding seniors and elderly in the SRO Housing Corporation Hotels.
This lawlessness hurt Skid Row’s law-abiding residents the most. The area’s century-old residential hotels and missions house thousands of senior citizens, non-drug-abusing mentally ill persons, and addicts trying to turn their lives around. “The people we serve are very vulnerable,” says Anita Nelson, director of a government-funded nonprofit that rehabilitates and manages single-room-occupancy hotels (SROs). “The elderly and the mentally ill were victimized by the crime and the dealers. When you’re afraid to go into the park, you’re a prisoner in your 120-square-foot unit.” Temptation confronted recovering addicts every time they stepped outside.
Anita Nelson has always listened to the tenants when she arrived. I remember how she compromised with the allowance of Portable air conditioners after SRO instituted a policy of no air conditioners way back in 2004. Although we still had the tragedy in the Brownstone Hotel with the heat casualty this past September , I know she would have heard us and I think she still hears us.
But this article continues to slam those advocates who claim to speak for the homeless by switching it around on them. You just have to read it to understand how scathing this article is against those who oppose bringing any semblance of law into the community.
I have to agree with these statements. It is about behavior. But can we make the law be made to be adhered to in a place where the attitude from the whole world is that you can do what you want , whenever you want?
The Safer City Initiative is about not poverty but behavior. “I don’t care if 125 people are hanging out on San Julian if they are obeying the law,” says Deon Joseph. Nor is it about lack of housing. The advocates will deny to their last breath the reality of “shelter resistance”—that is, the refusal of vast numbers of the homeless to take advantage of shelter and other housing options. The advocates have crafted a host of logical sophistries to dismiss the phenomenon, which anyone can test for himself by offering the homeless a place for the night or by asking the formerly homeless why they didn’t get off the streets. Here’s what you’ll hear: “I didn’t want help because I didn’t want to conform to the rules,” in the words of Ken Williams, who came from Long Beach to Skid Row a decade ago to indulge his crack and alcohol habit.
Read the Article for yourself to understand the other side ,which constantly wants and pines for law and order to prevail in skid row.
I do have issues with her call for forced institutionalization of the mentally ill , but I do agree that if there was a place that wasn't too prison like , I would be the first to go. If those who were sick allowed to keep their income and pay rent .
I am always calling for housing with onsite supportive services which include doctors , nurses , psychiatrists and , case managers , and a pharmacy. Isn't that what a state hospital is? At least that would not be skid row.
We have to change this. Just tonight I heard some horror stories that outreach workers from LAHSA have had to deal with in even the shelters with children. just 3 years ago.
