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New Information below added 7-23-10, below the PATH stuff.
05-08-10 San Diego City Council Proposal To Build a New PATH "Homeless Reservation" at the World Trade Center
What's Right With PATH?
It commits the City to spend $30 million on the homeless problem, for the first time ever. It establishes the first real concrete shelter building ever, and the first year-round shelter ever. It shows a concern for having more than one agency at the same time, the other being Father Joe's St. Vincent dePaul Village, operated by the Catholic Jesuits.
It also provides 225 new beds, about 10% of the current needs required to lift the Court Order which permits homeless to occupy public property from 9 PM to 5:30 AM nightly, unmolested. That's one step.
And, the PATH plan is ideal for the severely disabled, mentally ill, and chronic drug abusers, as they could receive clinical services right there, without leaving the facility.
What's Wrong With PATH?
The project is too close to the Financial District, causing an embarrassment to businessmen being visited by out-of-town clients. It hurts Real Estate values. It takes money away from Neil Good and the Alpha Project, so far the only two programs that actually work.
It's only ten percent of the 2500 beds needed to lift the Court Order regarding illegal lodging, and so will do nothing about the problem. By the time the shelter is built, there will be 500 more homeless to fit into its 225 beds. And, it's too far off the Trolley line, a problem for the elderly and handicapped.
It's way too expensive, costing the City $30 million that it could spend on something more useful, long-term, and more beneficial, besides. $30 million would buy 60 half-million-dollar single-family homes in Alpine or La Jolla, at 4 residents per house, even at the old-fashioned inflated real estate prices! And, at the newer, lower housing prices, $30 million is 120 homes at $250,000 each, with about 2 people per luxury suburban home to equal the 225 beds proposed. Homeless couples, 2 per home in nice suburbs, such as Rancho San Diego, Rancho Bernardo, or Scripps Ranch? Same cost. See my point?
$30 million could buy one million $30 motel vouchers. That would instantly cancel any Restraining Order against the City regarding its "Illegal Lodging" laws. There may need to be additional cheap hotels downtown, but that could happen. Most homeless would be willing to leave downtown for a motel room elsewhere. Not all, however.
Conclusions About PATH:
The three big problems with PATH that cause it to merit rejection are as follows:
1.) Too costly for the amount of impact gained by it. Government needs to be conservative, and get the "mostest for the leastest" with public money.
2.) It takes resources away from the only two programs so far that work: Alpha Project, and the Neil Good Day-Center.
3.) It provides services mostly for those individuals with problems regarding drugs and/or mental illness, which is a huge minority of the homeless population, and one disadvantaged enough to deserve funding from other sources, such as the State and Federal Government. Having the City volunteer money for handicapped rehabilitation is noble, but not prudent.
The huge majority of the homeless have one problem in common: Underemployment. The problem of not making enough money to pay rent, whether employed or not. A huge issue locally, and the cause of almost all homelessness in San Diego.
John Kitchin
(I should add the title "Most Rev." before my name, to show that I'm San Diego's homeless bishop, and avoid confusion with the various doctors, engineers, and the British Supreme Court Justice with the same unusual name.)
Copyright 2010, John Kitchin, All Rights Reserved. $100.00 (One hundred dollars) per newspaper edition using this article, and you DO have the right to edit it.
John Kitchin
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Adding to possible Homeless Solutions: New July 23, 2010:
In addition to the $4,000 per month tax on yacht and boat moorings, I call for a tax on horse racing admissions of $2 per person admitted, and on horse racing refreshments (35%), horse race parking and/or other transportation, such as bus or train service ($4 per person), and a $25,000 annual license for any facility which breeds, trains, or boards race horses. I call for a 20% occupational tax to be deducted from the paychecks of jockeys, and a 20% tax on both winnings and prizes for winners. There. Taxation that makes sense!
How about a tax on yacht moorings and boat slips in San Diego? Let's say we get $4,000 per month for each one, and we have 100,000 of them. That would make $400 million available every month, way enough to keep the starving homeless from living in the streets.
I also have a new page proposal, the Tijuana Real Estate Page: Categories for advertising: 1.) Rooms for rent under $50 per month. 2.) One-bedroom apartments for rent under $75 per month. 3.) Two-bedroom apartments for rent under $100 a month. 4.) Three-bedroom apartments or entire houses for rent under $150 a month. There are no other categories. Ads are free. Translators available for a charge.
Finally, delayed by 3 nonworking computers, camera problems, web shutdowns, spam, and a physical attack on me personally, I can give the minutes of what happened at the Ocean Beach town hall meeting dealing with Homeless Intolerance. The meeting was packed, with 200 people divided up into groups of 15 or so per group. A sheet was passed out, written by Kathryn Rhodes and Conrad Hartsell, indicating that California state law makes city governments responsible for finding everyone housing, and county governments responsible for food and medical care.
Rhodes’ paper says there are 4,000 homeless, but the San Diego Grand Jury found 7,000, and the Census many more than that. I’ve been in the secret camps, and also observed sex-housing (prostitution in lieu of rent) and slavery-housing (domestic servitude in lieu of rent), so my estimate is 200,00 homeless, effectively. Most do not admit being homeless. The San Diego Union-Tribune, in an article that I criticized on the (RP) Republican Propaganda page, said we had 500 homeless.
The article by Rhodes also suggests forming a JPA (Joint Powers Authority) to handle the homeless. I agree, and so does the Grand Jury Report. I suggested using SANDAG, as it already exists, has offices, has staff, and has representatives from all the government units locally. It would now take on the issue of housing for the poor and unemployed, in addition to its duties as coordinator of public transportation. Rhodes also says the CCDC (Center City Development Corp.) plan to end homelessness has failed. Obviously.
My disagreements with the report are that the Midway Post Office should be used for housing, and that’s a mistake due to infrastructure problems, particularly transportation issues. Too far from the trolley. We gotta eat. I suggest locations near 3rd and C or 5th and C, with access to the trolley and also the buses on Broadway. City Hall would be perfect, if they ever get around to building a new one. Can San Diego get federal funding for a new City Hall, if we convert our old City Hall to a low-income housing project for those currently homeless?
Another good choice would be the old Pep Boys building on 11th and Market, or the California Theatre, next door to City Hall, on 3rd and C. Remember that over half of the homeless are handicapped! We get to meal programs by trolley, and walking one extra block using your cane or walker is difficult. Neal Good Center is too far from any trolley stop, but maybe a new stop could be added at 17th and Commercial, 2 blocks south of the center. This has the added advantage of separating the Petco Park baseball transit patrons, at 12th and Imperial, from the homeless. That’s a win-win for everybody.
The Rhodes paper criticized the City from taking money away from Alpha Project, Neil Day, and same is a valid criticism. Neil Day and Father Joe’s Villages (St. Vincent de Paul) are the foundation, and the dominoes holding up the framework of homeless rescue here. Without these 2 essential services, there would probably be rioting, and people walking their dogs thrown thru plate glass windows. Not good for tourism, community, condo sales, etc. Those two are critical programs. If you need cuts, I’ve seen no reason to fund the San Diego Rescue Mission, nor God’s Extended Hands.
The paper continues that the City is funding Real Estate Developers with federal money intended for the homeless. Well, San Diego City and County having the most corrupt governments in the nation is just something we need to fix, right? Rhodes favors the World Trade Center Homeless Reservation, which we view as a Homeless Prison, but I don’t like it, for financial reasons. $32 million will buy 64 $500,000 homes in La Jolla or Alpine, so how does that compare to a couple of hundred bed-spaces? Let’s put 3 or 4 homeless each into luxury suburban homes with pools, at the same price! PATH is a scheme to hose the taxpayers and get rich by doing so. Sort of like George W. Bush’s Iraq War. Is PATH part of LDS? I’m just smelling the politics of it, that’s all.
I agree with the entire Rhodes paper, except the location issues. Even reworking the entire public transportation system will never resolve these issues! I want the homeless to have a veto over any location proposed, and we cannot be forced to live on Reservations. Bad enough that anyone who applies for help is listed in the Fingerprint Terrorist Database. I write about that elsewhere.
Kathryn Rhodes can be contacted at: Rhodes@laplayaheritage.com
John Kitchin reporting.
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To solve our homeless problem, I propose 1,000 apartments, rent 20% of SSI income ($185 a month) each, located in various places, no more than 20 apts. to a building. Utilities are metered and additional. The condo area downtown is blighted with expensive real estate that no one wants, and should be redeveloped. I propose failed condo projects be converted into low-income housing, paid for by a tax on vacant condos.
This page is under assembly at this time. Homeless articles are found on pages M, Home, H, R, S, RP, and in my book, C1.
I have a huge number of homeless suggestions, some of them unique. One of my low-cost suggestions calls for everyone to get an MTS Bike Locker for their posessions. Unfortunately, the new "piss-lockers" in Old Town at the trolley are no good because people urinate thru the holes in them. The other, old, steel bike lockers worked very well. MTS needs to tear out the Old Town bike lockers and start over.
And, why has no one gotten rid of the yellow Suicide Dots? They are glued to sidewalk ramps, the bumps causing walkers, wheelchairs, and similar to tip over. Liabililty lawsuit? The physically handicapped homeless are angry and feel they were put there to prevent handicap access to streets. No, "ADA" is NOT a new energy drink!
Proposed Homeless Solutions: (in addition to those which will appear below):
1.) Rent Control, like in New York and San Francisco.
2.) Outlaw evictions, like in London (takes one year.)
3.) County Minimum Wage that permits people to earn enough money to pay rent. The Federal Poverty Level for San Diego County is $22.00 and hour, so that would be a good start.
4.) Unemploy our current politicians.
5.) Make the news media tell the truth, instead of complete Republican control.
6.) Bring back tourism, jobs, and a good economy for small businesses.
7.) Bring a million homeless voters to San Diego beginning Oct. 1.
Friday, 5-28-10
The same felony data-base used to identify dangerous drug offenders is also used to track anyone who has applied for Food Stamps or General Relief in San Diego County. The crime of poverty? Many who qualify will apply for neither, as it does go on your Criminal Record, causing you to receive poor or no services if ever hospitalized. This is the fingerprint machine down at the local welfare office, and at the border.
Sign seen among the homeless, which I propose be called Sidewalk Victims or Housing Victims, "Recovering Jesus and Bible Addict. Overcoming Addiction to Holy Communion". True story.
My low-cost solution for a prison chess set is functional. Print the characters on two different colors of paper, and cut them out. Use the "Page Setup" and "Shrink to Fit" functions as desired. Solves the problem of the Homeless Prison Day Room getting chess sets stolen. Next time, don't commit the Crime of Poverty! You guys in a real prison have an easier life than us on the sidewalk. If you're born a cat, you get space in an animal shelter.
Proposed is the Human Society, patterned after the Humane Society, but this is the Humane Society for people. Stray pets get animal shelters, with food and medical care, but stray humans get nothing and live on the sidewalk. Even prisons give inmates convicted of crimes a heated cell, bed, blankets, clothing, shower, a toilet, food, and medicine. Humans not committing crimes get none of these. Some humans get treated like dogs, but only on a good day! We treat our pets, even stray ones, better than we treat stray fellow humans. Some animal shelters are non-euthanizing. Sidewalk life for humans is self-euthanizing, where people pickup drug use, mental illness, violence, and diseases. A slow death, but it works. Suicide is quicker, but being put to death in an animal shelter is more humane that a human dying slowly on a sidewalk. People shelters exist, but can only accomodate less than 10% of those needing same. Not yet a 501 (c) nonprofit corporation, money is currently being raised for incorporation papers. To contribute one thousand dollars, go to http://nz9f.com/z, or lesser amounts at http://nz9f.com/help
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found all of the food served by various churches this past Monday to be abusive of the poor and homeless. Chalked it up to the Day After Pentecost, but there were lots of complaints. Most of the poor are gnostic, but who do you complain to? Want me to rate all the meals, spiritually? We can go that route, and seem to be headed there! So far, just a concept.
Politics: Really good San Diego Reader today, expecially Don Bauder and also Refried Gringo. Online edition is at www.sdreader.com And, thanks for giving "Sheep and Goats" a rest. I think Christianity has been well-covered, leaving lots of religions open for review of their liturgies.
I want to suggest that Father Joe ban smoking at its fenced-in food wait area. I'm allergic.
Much more has been said on Page H, the Homeless Page, below the Grand Jury Report (left column, scroll way, way down.)
Downtown Homeless Site: Because of the bus traffic on Broadway, and where the trolley goes, and the number of homeless that are handicapped, the only acceptable place for a site is from Broadway to B, between 2nd and 7th Avenues. This is 5 blocks by 3 blocks, or 15 city blocks. An unacceptable secondary location would be 11th to 13th Street, from E thru B Streets. All other locations, especially outside of Downtown, are not reasonable to consider. And, the present Neal Day Center should be moved, barring a new Trolley stop at 17th and Imperial. The current center is too far away from transit facilities. Father Joe's Village is also too far away from the Broadway bus lines.
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Homeless Solutions (First Installment in a Series):
1.) Expand HUD Section 8 to be an Entitlement Program. Each USA American is entitled to housing at an affordable price. An allowance of $1,000 per month is paid to the landlord for renting to families of 1-4 persons. All housing must conform to current HUD guidelines and inspections, and must be priced in line with national housing prices (not local ones). Program is paid for by a Federal Real Estate Tax on housing that exceeds federal price guidelines. Applies only to rental properties.
2.) New Orange Line Trolley (San Diego) stop at 17th and Commercial Avenue. The handicapped have been complaining about too long a walk from 12 and Imperial to Neil Day Center. Also separates homeless trolley traffic from the ordinary trolley traffic at 12 and Imperial. In addition, it separates the homeless from Petco Park. It's win-win-win for everybody. Minimal cost for the new stop.
3.) A Rural Homeless Program that encourages San Diego's homeless to explore the great outdoors by enjoying free camping at one of tens of thousands of free rural campgrounds. Might require expanding the MTS Rural Bus Program, but only minmally. This could be organized as a "club". Would be helpful to have the Cities and County pick up the MTS Rural Bus fares, but a better solution is to merely have the rural buses part of regular MTS fares and passes, same as any other bus. The last one is politically tenable.
To Be Continued...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
I applied for the position of San Diego City Redevelopment Specialist (IV), which would literally make me in charge of finding a solution to the problem of homelessness here. I’m really great at writing grant proposals, making presentations to governments, and, of course, I’ve done one sort of redevelopment activity or another my whole life. Some work in Milwaukee’s high-crime area provided burglar alarm service for poor people, and other work dealt with new furnaces, insulation, toilets, and similar. And, I had to train people to do this stuff, being the Contractor, and not a City official.
The only time I ever worked for any government in my life was back in 1978, just out of college, where I took a summer job as facilities manager for the City of Los Angeles at its mountain summer camp, Camp Valcrest. I had to do water tower maintenance, maintain generators and electrical, and even once had to cook lunch for the 200 kids when a transit strike meant that the cooks couldn’t make it in to work.
In San Diego, I worked with a fine real estate developer named Ray Gokenbach. He’s retired now, but his daughter carries on the family business. We did commercial work in La Mesa, and some residential in Memorial and Barrio Logan. I installed everything from water-saving toilets and showers, to new heaters. Lots of electrical work, too. Much of it was covered by federal grants, loans, and similar.
My forte is the ability to do twice as much good for half as much money. Plays well to a politically-conservative audience. Yes, I’m a liberal Democrat, but I’m a conservative when it comes to spending money. I like the challenge of doing more with less. It’s a game, if you will. All engineering is exactly that, the science and art of providing maximum or specified benefit for a minimum expenditure of resources, including grief. A bridge beats using a barge to haul your car across a river, for example.
New editorial today on Meg Whitman's run for Governor of California. I submitted it to the San-Diego Union-Tribune exclusively, but will put it up for sale if they don't buy it. Look for it after next Monday at Page M.
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Editorial, 7-7-10, 211 San Diego:
Maintained by the taxpayers, the San Diego "help" website at sd211.org is difficult to use, expensive to maintain, and mostly a PR "feel good" website for the County. It makes people believe that something is actually being done about poverty, unemployment, and homelessness, even though nothing is really being done. It's a sham, and should be regorganized. It needs to be mentioned that my dissatisfaction with 211 is the whole reason that this website here at nz9f.com exists. So, they did accomplish something major.
Filled with bureucratic nonsense, and impossible-to-use web-links, 211 San Diego has the purpose of confusion of the general public, while placating people into thinking that there is hope. Confusion of people is not good government. People need a user-friendly site, that can be accessed on a dial-up machine, and provides useful information that is in a user-friendly format.
Like the local news media, who have been hiding the San Diego Grand Jury Report on the Homeless, the 211 site is just one more unit of dysinformation, a way to keep people from looking for help, or making them believe that no help is available. Help is there, but finding it on 211 isn't supposed to happen. Computer engineers give up.
San Diego has a long track record of telling people who qualify for benefits that they do not qualify. Most people have been taught to obey the "official" people and believe what they say, too. So, when lied to about their case, they believe the lies. If you have been denied Food Stamps, Unemployment Benefits, General Relief (Welfare), or other benefits, you were probably lied to about not qualifying. Workers get a bonus for turning you away, supposedly. The biggest lie told is that in order to qualify, you need to have children, or a family, or a medical condition. Horse poop. Another lie deals with criminal convictions making people not qualify. More bull poop. To qualify, you must be a human being, alive, and not wealthy. That is all. Got it covered?
I personally went thru the insanity of using a County Legal Aid lawyer twice, but that is no help, as those lawyers get paid by the County itself! Dealing with a government in court requires the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit legal organization that believes courtroom justice should not be just for rich people. They are a Nonprofit Organization, and should be generously remembered in your will.
And, when you use 211 for information, expect to be given only government propaganda instead.
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