Comments on: Do we really want tent camps that will thrive for years? http://csbj.com/2009/12/31/do-we-really-want-tent-camps-that-will-thrive-for-years/ Sat, 18 May 2013 02:50:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bob Holmes http://csbj.com/2009/12/31/do-we-really-want-tent-camps-that-will-thrive-for-years/comment-page-1/#comment-13566 Bob Holmes Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:13:13 +0000 http://csbj.com/?p=23711#comment-13566 Homeless service providers are and have been working on this problem. We are developing even more alternatives to offer to the homeless campers who proliferated after the City decided to cease enforcing the existing “No Camping” ordinance. We don’t have that many more homeless, but rather homeless who have moved closer to free food, etc., because they could. Handing out goodies: tents, blankets, sleeping bags, candles does not help the problem, but rather exacerbates it.
I will present a plan of alternatives to City Council in a month or so, but an integral part of it will be resuming enforcement of the “No Camping” ordinance. We desperately need to get back to the “hand up, not a hand out” philosophy that seems to have been set aside recently.
Bob Holmes
Executive Director,
Homeward Pikes Peak

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