always exceeding word and character limits (me!) ~topps
don't you know i wrote my little heart out, responding to liccardo's opinion piece in the mercury news. way the programming is, the box will let you write your heart out; there are no hard stops.
but when i went to post it.. this little red -2082 at the bottom.
so i did 'join the conversation' but then had to cut my entire conversation; leaving only the very first two paragraphs, and then posted successfully. -but, that is exactly why i love this blog, -no word or character restrictions. "thank you! again and again
*****
Mayor Sam Liccardo, IN response to your recent Mercury News
Opinion Article
Any misleading
narratives come directly from you, sir.
To use the umbrella word, ‘unhoused’ when you are in fact describing
some people experiencing financial hardship; some people addicted to drugs;
some people with mental illness (manageable to severe); some prematurely
released inmates with dangerous criminal backgrounds; a percentage of
freeloaders, and then still some with any combination of the above, and some
yet to be identified -to say ‘unhoused’
to describe this very diverse population is dangerously and negligently vague.
The term you
‘loosely’ employ in your article, NIMBY, is about as misleading as it
gets. For you to use this inaccurate,
outdated ploy to falsely pit hard working class, tax paying, contributing
citizens and protective parents against people with financial hardships, drug
addictions, mental illness, and/or criminal backgrounds. We will not be pitted against the homeless,
or be pitted district against district, paying for your very costly, failing,
non-solutions.
I learned why the problem keeps getting worse when I received a response from Omar Passons. My question was, WHO EXACTLY is solving for homelessness? It usually says, "The City of San Jose.." but without specific names or positions. Answer: a substantial number of people. This includes, staff in Parks, Rec, Neighborhood Services; Office of Economic Development, Housing, Public Works, Library and Office of Race and Equity, and collaborations with County's Office of Supportive Housing and Behavioral Health to name a couple examples.
GOAL: Solve for
homelessness where the absolute most amount of people thrive.
Let us
avoid a repeat of Measure A, in 2016, where you get $950 million, to watch the
homeless population grow. (despite your
pretty & colorful graphic art charts and posters.)
I support the withholding of funding for the homeless by Gov
Gavin Newsom. Having the crisis has
proven very lucrative for some, and has created a disincentive for actually
solving the problem. It's been such a cash-flow, funding, grant and bond
friendly issue.. but let's actually
solve. Tiny homes are researchably
failing. Anyone can do minimal research
and learn that truth. Do not pretend; do
not turn a blind eye and just keep on investing in failing trends; investing in
densely populated caged tiny home sites.
LEAD! SAN JOSE.. Stop. Cut
your losses. Create the larger problem
solving panel. You have hard, but
rewarding work in front of you. BE AN
EXAMPLE! RESTORE SAN JOSE TO ITS FORMER
GLORY.
now adding on further here,
turns out gov gavin newsom is holding homeless funding hostage..
and then just read about senator cortese proposing some audits where homeless funding is concerned.
initially, i was like, YES! let's have some audits!
-then, upon further reading, i learned that senator dave cortese "Co-Chaired" the $950million Measure A.. and Cindy Chaves is the 'architect' of Measure A..
now, i've lost some of my confidence in the audit process; -little conflict of interest seems to be floating to the murky surface.
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