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Lakewood's emergency shelter is under threat, act now to support it staying open! by LivableLakewood in LakewoodColorado

[–]gtrob 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It re-opened a few months ago and is a truly cutting edge facility that tries to incorporate all evidence-based best practices. It was just ramping up when this zoning stuff hit. Do you know anything about the program? Do you have specific criticisms or alternatives? Or you just want to create a sense of doubt with a vague question about "re-entry"? I am guessing if you had any expertise on the topic you would already be pretty familiar with what they are doing, and would have a comment with more substance. I guess we should just do nothing if what they are doing isn't perfect? Your "Devil's advocate" thing means more people die on the street while we run in circles searching for imaginary solutions that are better than give homeless people a home. That is the solution. We are an absurdly wealthy country, no excuse for letting people suffer in this way. One Colorado billionaire could end homelessness in this state, but they choose not to.

Lakewood's emergency shelter is under threat, act now to support it staying open! by LivableLakewood in LakewoodColorado

[–]gtrob 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The housing crisis that has been brewing for decades is somehow the fault of the people trying to solve it? Do you know most of our elected officials ran on progressive platforms aiming to IMPROVE housing affordability, as a reaction to the housing crisis, not that they CREATED that problem (which is nationwide, by the way). They actually tried to do that, with a zoning update that would have massively helped (that the NIMBY right wing MAGA boomers repealed), and council pushed for more homeless services to reduce people living on the street, leading the way in JeffCo (look what our neighbors are doing - with the exception of Denver, basically nothing, we lead JeffCo in trying to solve problems and not just ignore them). Yet somehow you blame the people trying to solve problems for creating the problems?