Torpy-at-Large: More homeless in ATL? Stats say no, eyes say otherwise

[CaliDreaming01]

I think the choice if you live in some parts of the COA is really whether you'd rather have a homeless shelter in your hood or whether you'd rather have them roaming all over your neighborhood, sleeping on sidewalks, and using the bathroom in parking decks.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by SLIMMACKEY

There are waaay more homeless on my stretch of Peachtree in Buckhead. I worked downtown in the GA Pacific building and in the Suntrust Towers. Its either the same or a little worse. The number of low to no cost housing has not increased exponentially and the homeless have not just disappeared. The closing of shelters means that they migrate to other parts of the city.

This isnt Atlantic City NJ where the powers that be bought one way bus tickets to rid the place of homelessness. Its still ever so present, even with the migration.

I don't like homelessness or Buckhead, so this fills me with a conflicted feeling of happiness.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Our society should be ashamed by the homeless challenge. It is horrible how we have ignored the most needy.

So true, Ansley, in Atlanta and elsewhere. It seems like we could get this fixed.

[J2rescue]

Originally Posted by SLIMMACKEY

There are waaay more homeless on my stretch of Peachtree in Buckhead. I worked downtown in the GA Pacific building and in the Suntrust Towers. Its either the same or a little worse. The number of low to no cost housing has not increased exponentially and the homeless have not just disappeared. The closing of shelters means that they migrate to other parts of the city.

This isnt Atlantic City NJ where the powers that be bought one way bus tickets to rid the place of homelessness. Its still ever so present, even with the migration.

According to a friend that is a fireman in Gwinnett, the get calls weekly from restaurants that want to rid a homeless person from their business and they give them one way tickets to downtown. Gwinnett is a county of nearly one million population and doesn't have a single homeless shelter.