Tulsa leaders look to Denver for ideas on how to end homelessness

[NationalMatch]

Nearly 16,000 Tulsans experienced homelessness for the first time over the past five years, according to data from Housing Solutions.

It's an epidemic city leaders want to help fix and one Tulsa Day Center Executive Director Mack Halton believes he has a solution.

"Homelessness is a condition, okay?" explained Halton. "It's not, it's not a symptom of somebody that's who they are. It can be overcome."

Councilor Jayme Fowler is one of several who traveled to Denver earlier this month to learn about solutions.

Fowler said other councilors went to visit homeless shelters and tent cities.

"I think that's very important people that just have a different perspective," he said.

For him, homelessness is a two-fold issue.

"When you look at the dynamic of homelessness -- many, many folks that are homeless, have mental health issues," he said.

Fowler explained one of the ideas Denver had to help those experiencing homelessness, which includes partnering with police.

Tulsa leaders look to Denver for ideas on how to end homelessness

Nearly 16,000 Tulsans experienced homelessness for the first time over the past five years, according to data from Housing Solutions.It's an epidemiccity leade

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[NationalMatch]

Ironic that in an earlier thread, some OSArs said that when newly arrived addicts to Tulsa were asked how they got here, they said they came from Denver. And that the authorities in Denver gave them bus tickets to Tulsa.

Forget tent cities. Give them bus tickets to Biden's Delaware address. He caused it. Let him fix it.

 

[Judi]

Put those bums, winos , dopers, nuts,...on a bus to Chicago....

Have the police stay on them...AND SUPPORT THE POLICE

 

[Gideon]

The first step in ending homelessness is to stop pretending that their problem is merely not having a structure to live in. People who experience major life crises (loss of home or family due to disaster, job loss, other emergencies) tend to utilize the programs and help available to them and get out of that situation quickly.

Reality is that "homeless" population that we all think of when we hear the term is 99% addicts and mental health cases who don't want to be treated.

We closed the institutions, we stopped committing people to them involuntarily. We got a bunch of open-air drug dens in exchange.

And he's right, it is simply a condition that they're in, but they're in it because progressive city governments won't round them up and make them square themselves away.

 

[NationalMatch]

We got a bunch of open-air drug dens in exchange.

I saw this in kalifornia. (I was there for awhile: job related.)

Those idiots legalized weed. Addicts from all over the country flooded in. Now, hard drugs proliferate. Crime is through the roof. And kalifornians (who created the problem in the first place) are fleeing to civilized states and destroying them, as well.

 

[Okie4570]

By all means let's look at a Dem run city in a Dem run state for answers to a problem that Denver still doesn't have an answer for.....smh.

 

[Louro]

Nearly 16,000 Tulsans experienced homelessness for the first time over the past five years, according to data from Housing Solutions.

It's an epidemic city leaders want to help fix and one Tulsa Day Center Executive Director Mack Halton believes he has a solution.

"Homelessness is a condition, okay?" explained Halton. "It's not, it's not a symptom of somebody that's who they are. It can be overcome."

Councilor Jayme Fowler is one of several who traveled to Denver earlier this month to learn about solutions.

Fowler said other councilors went to visit homeless shelters and tent cities.

"I think that's very important people that just have a different perspective," he said.

For him, homelessness is a two-fold issue.

"When you look at the dynamic of homelessness -- many, many folks that are homeless, have mental health issues," he said.

Fowler explained one of the ideas Denver had to help those experiencing homelessness, which includes partnering with police.

Tulsa leaders look to Denver for ideas on how to end homelessness

Nearly 16,000 Tulsans experienced homelessness for the first time over the past five years, according to data from Housing Solutions.It's an epidemiccity leade

ktul.com

This is laughable, they need to go to Los Angeles, San Fracisco to get the real answer.

 

[sherrick13]

Dumbasses. Libs dont fix ****.

Most homeless need to be institutionalized.

 

[YetiSam]

Visited Denver this summer for a class. Homeless problem is catastrophically bad. Not sure that’s the place to learn.

 

[trekrok]

Bus tickets. Thinking it's solved for $100 a head. Maybe a little more if they find their way back and it takes another ticket.