City Of Walnut Creek To Host Community Forum On Homelessness

Oh the irony.

Let’s talk about homelessness in Walnut Creek at our $40 million dollar library. But please don’t pitch your tents outside the library doors.

When that building opened back in 2010, there was a man who had his tent and electrical needs right outside the library doors. But he was ‘asked’ to leave.

A public forum on homelessness in the Bay Area? This meeting would be more productive if it was trying to figure out how to time travel. The talk will be dominated by attempts to solve homelessness and making people w home feel guilty. The solutions aren’t pretty folks. But as the situation in SF and Oakland show- people here don’t want effective solutions. They want to talk impossibilities: ideas that create change without asking those conducting the behavior in question to stop or else.

Bla bla bla bla …… more talk, more studies, more committees – and NO improvement. This is ridiculous for people to be allowed to live this way. This situation should be considered a public health and environmental emergency and be dealt with immediately.. They are living in squalor – drawing rats and spreading diseases such as hepatitis and typhus. They are living along rivers and lakes and polluting the environment. In SF, they are causing businesses to close, neighborhoods to decline and residents to move. Why are our stupid government officials allowing this?? I heard one dumbass, that works at the Navigation Center on the Embarcadero, describe the place as a “hotel”. He said, “…these people are our guests and we will treat them that way…”. In other words, they will continue to enable them and will not do anything to solve the problem.
People who are mentally ill and cannot care for themselves should not be out in the streets. California needs to declare them wards of the State and hospitalize them. Cities are spending billion$ now and accomplishing nothing. Drug addicts and criminals should be arrested and held. We don’t need more prisons for them – there’s miles and miles of open land in California. Put up pre-fab “barracks” and keep them there. Give them food, shelter, and counseling. BUT, they cannot leave until they’re drug free. They don’t like it?? Too bad. Too much money has been spent on this mess already and the problem keeps getting worse instead of better. Try a different approach. Don’t indulge them, Walnut Creek. We’ve already seen the results in other cities.

It creates jobs,solves nothing and wastes money thats burning a hole in their pockets

Trinity House was moved from the old KFC to Boulevard Way in an old retirement home. Trinity house allows homeless people to shower, they get meals Mon-Fri and can get clean clothes and other necessities. There is a homeless shelter near the park. With those places available….there is still a huge issue with the homeless setting up camps. Our company cleans up the camps. I know I’ve mentioned it here before. Unless you have actually waded through one of these encampments, you have no idea of the filth, bio hazards and drug paraphernalia that is piled up. We have NEVER cleaned up a camp that did not have needles, empty alcohol bottles, pallets of propane tanks, not to mention buckets used as toilets. We have found dead deer that had been killed and eaten. Cans of gasoline. I could go on but I’m sure most of you are getting the picture. Several of these camps are along the creek. The waste that enters the creek has created a pollution that no one seems to be too concerned about. 6 months ago we cleaned up a huge encampment at the creek across from Trader Joes. They had walkways from stolen bricks, furniture, even wood flooring. Nice set up..except for the needles and waste entering the creek. We removed 6 TONS of garbage!! It was a $20,000 clean up…and guess what? They just moved down a hundred yards or so after we were gone. These people are homeless by choice. Most of the people we meet at these encampments are there by choice. Do you realize, they have to have a 72 hour notice before anyone can remove the garbage? Even then, they usually don’t move. We have to have police stand by to make sure we are safe. I’m sorry if what I am saying offends some people. However, I have seen first hand how these people treat our streets, creeks, and areas where they set up house. The mentally ill need to be hospitalized and off the streets. Same with the drug addicts. Ever drive down Monument? Seen the woman who flashes everyone driving by? How about the homeless who knock on your windows while waiting at a red light or walk in the middle of traffic? It’s time to actually do something. San Francisco is an embarrassment and a disgrace. I don’t want to see our towns turn into the same.