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

[Snapshot2022]

Our Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum will find the answer take more tax payer paid trips to other cities, eat great meals with their Mayors, return to Tulsa and devert the American Rescue Money to his business friends to provide usless services for the homeless.

Just another of Tulsa Mayor Bynums many ways to devert any money to his pals.

 

[greytdanehouse]

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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In other news, Oklahoma City leaders are checking with the Pentagon on ways to cut costs and save money.

 

[turkeyrun]

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.

Wouldn't that be like going to NorK to learn how govern?

 

[Okie4570]

Wouldn't that be like going to NorK to learn how govern?

That was my point of the comment lol.

 

[turkeyrun]

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.

Take them (and illegal invaders) and chip them. Then give a bus ticket, let them know they are not welcome. If they return ...... hanging is an option.

 

[Lightsluvr]

Interesting reading... The statistics don't seem to "add up". https://www.housingsolutionstulsa.org/reports-data/

 

[GlockPride]

MOST, not all but the extreme vast majority, homeless are there by THEIR own choice(s). Do most wake up and say, “oh, I’d love to be homeless today!” No! However, the choices that they make lead them down the path to homelessness.
Deciding to take that extra sip of alcohol, bump or hit lead them there. They typically don’t have a great job to begin with, had a rough upbringing, failed to plan for a rainy day, pissed off the last relative willing to help them by stealing from them, and on and on.
A lot of people have run-ins or interventions prior to becoming homeless. They may have been fired from work, arrested on DUI/drugs or had relatives help them into detox programs. Not all, but a %, had opportunities to get off the path and they rejected it.
Now, how do you/we/they impact or improve their situation? I’m not sure. But you can really only reach those that want to be reached. If they wish to stay an addict, not take their psych meds and eschew responsibilities, there is very little society can do short of locking them up.
I think tiny homes, job corp training WITH a skill like plumbing/roofing/electrician/etc. and psychiatric services could be useful. But I’m certain you could never save 100%. Could we save 10? Probably. Could we save 50%. Possibly, but not likely.
People won’t change unless they get super uncomfortable and WANT to change. We are in the land of greatest opportunity ever in the world, and they don’t want to function as part of a civilized society.

 

[Snattlerake]

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.

Precisely. It was the intent to get rid of them at other's expense. The bus ticket thing, usually sponsored by the Red Cross has been going on for decades. I'll also bet Denver didn't tell them that little secret either.

 

[turkeyrun]

Katrina forced a huge evacuation of New Orleans. Thousands were sent Houston.
Many were housed in the Astrodome.
Within 4 days, no restrooms were functional. Fixtures ripped down. Complaints about the FREE food.

The Astrodome was demolished.
5 years later, half of those evacuated were still in Houston.

Lesson: once an infestation is established, it is close to impossible to get rid of without serious eradication. Roaches, rats, whatever the vermin.

 

[Snattlerake]

In other news, Oklahoma City leaders are checking with the Pentagon on ways to cut costs and save money.

Using the influx of aliens as self-propelled moveable targets?