Blog post 5

  • On monday we had someone come and speak to us about his plans to help create new locations for the unhoused to go. I like his approach but how he is willing to take the steps to speak to whomever he needs to get answers and take action. It was interesting to see the two approaches, political and more radical moves, both being good approaches. He is diving into his plans with high hope and it is inspiring to see, making me what to take more action. I like how he wants to open up multiple spaces realizing one is not the best option. Both of them bring up the point that the place can not be too glamorous or people will not want to leave, leading to chronic homelessness, which the government ultimately doesn’t want nor the cities losing business. The more I learn about Redlands the more angered I become, they are deciding not to take action. Trying to remove that population instead of help them. People fail to realize that that this problem is probably not going to go away, because of the economical problems as well as many others causing a bigger division in our society. MAKING PEOPLE INVISIBLE DOESN’T FIX A PROBLEM. One interesting observation he made was the first through through the fifthteenth less people are in the shelters since they get paid, but from the sixteenth through the end of the month they have no more money, so more people will be in the shelter.