Mayor Berry's Homeless Initiative (Albuquerque: home, subdivisions, to live in) - City-Data Forum

karmathecat · 01-07-2011, 10:31 AM

Interesting read.

It will be worth following this story to see if they can actually make a dent in helping the chronically homeless.

Nice of Jeremy Reynalds to get his name in the news by being critical of the plan.

Berry resolves to help chronic homeless | New Mexico Business Weekly

karmathecat · 01-07-2011, 11:25 AM

FYI, if anyone is interested in volunteering, here's the info:

Albuquerque Heading Home > Ending Homelessness in Albuquerque, New Mexico

ABQConvict · 01-07-2011, 12:08 PM

I must say that Berry's program sounds like it may be at least minimally effective. Minimal in that 75 homeless people is drop in the bucket if Albuquerque has 4,000 homeless.

On the other hand, while I commend Reynalds's commitment to the homeless, an obviously vulnerable population, I believe he tacitly defends homelessness as a life-choice.

karmathecat · 01-07-2011, 12:17 PM

Well, this program is not designed to impact the 4,000. This program is designed to focus on on a small number of them that other programs have failed at. If it works, it may be used as a national model.

Mike Horrell · 01-07-2011, 12:51 PM

I don't know much about Reynalds, but I personally knew Mitch Snyder

Mitch Snyder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and all too often advocates loose the perspective that working for the "greater good"
does not always ensure that they personally will remain a media figure or have a major
voice in future developments.

Bottom line.. 75 people off the streets are 75 people better off than they were.

To some, that can mean a 75 person reduction in their supporters as well as a reduction
in their personal influence. To some, it's as much about themselves as the cause..

Some of Reynalds' statements concern me..

marmom · 01-07-2011, 05:58 PM

It sounds like a great program with a lot of potential....hopefully it will work!

bradly · 01-07-2011, 11:10 PM

This mayor has really lost his mind!

Let's put them in housing.. yea, thats nice. Have you seen the subdivisions of the southwest side of town? haven't we or should I say.. HE already learned his lesson.

Get out often Mayor Berry! Mayors that live on the east side have no clue what really needs to be done I guess.

JBM · 01-08-2011, 01:33 AM

If it helps get one person off the streets, I'm for it, totally. I need to read up on this, however, as I don't know much about it. I *do* know that for many people, being homeless is most definitely not a life choice. For those that do choose to be homeless, good for them. But the more we can help those with a hand up, those that want a hand up, the better our city will be. It'd be terrible to have to live in a car or sleep in the street...

karmathecat · 01-08-2011, 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bradly

This mayor has really lost his mind!

Let's put them in housing.. yea, thats nice. Have you seen the subdivisions of the southwest side of town? haven't we or should I say.. HE already learned his lesson.

Get out often Mayor Berry! Mayors that live on the east side have no clue what really needs to be done I guess.

It's time to get over the fact that the Chavez era is over.

Yes, let's put them in housing. If you research the plan, you'd see that they also get services ( counseling, etc. ) but the main idea is that by removing them from the streets it redirects them to get these services and saves the city money so that they aren't winding up intoxicated in ER's, arrested for rather petty things that ultimately cost the city millions of dollars.

ABQConvict · 01-08-2011, 11:00 AM

I am all for helping the 75 most vulnerable.

It is the other 3,925 that are helping to make Albuquerque a cess-pool. And I am tired of people chucking empty Vienna sausage cans and empty hairspray bottles into my backyard (a problem that has significantly increased in the last five years or so).

It is not so much the homelessness that bugs me as the littering. :-)