Las Vegas marking parking places for homeless encampment

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Michelle L. Price, Associated Press Updated 6:09 pm CDT, Tuesday, March 31, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Homeless people in Las Vegas have been directed to sleep in rectangles painted on the pavement in a makeshift parking lot camp as a way to limit the spread of the coronavirus, a move that is stirring outrage by some on social media.

Former Obama administration housing chief Julian Castro suggested in a post on Twitter that the city's homeless should be temporarily placed in empty hotel rooms.

Added actress Alyssa Milano in a tweet: “In Las Vegas, homeless people are sleeping on concrete floor of a parking lot —six feet apart—while all the hotel rooms are empty."

The white-lined patches of pavement were created by officials in the city known for its hospitality after a homeless shelter closed when a man staying there tested positive for the coronavirus.



Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/medical/article/Las-Vegas-marking-parking-places-for-homeless-15169084.php

[KSNY]

1. This is disgusting...

...and they wash up how...? The state government should seize the hotels to house unhoused people.

[RGinNJ]

2. Our Dem. Mayor has a very cold heart when it comes to the homeless.

[DarthDem]

3. Reading the headline, I thought that

This was going to be good news, but I didn't read or think carefully.

In fact, this is an atrocity. Use one of those vacant hotels!!!!!!!! And when we emerge from this crisis, build housing for these people!! They're Americans and human beings too!

[pecosbob]

4. These are all people that stay at the St. Vincent DePaul/Catholic Charities shelter

They normally have to spend half the day in line to secure a spot at the shelter for the night, which means it's not possible to both work and stay at the shelter. The location they chose to relocate to is the parking lot of an empty baseball stadium called Cashman Field. Recall that the city also recently passed a 'blanket law' that prohibits the homeless from camping, six months, $1000 fine.

The state went wholly blue, but idiots have taken over the city council.