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A surprisingly good looking building for a name and function like low barrier.
Still a lot to happen and a lot to prove and do once it’s operational.
The physical form isn’t going to make a hill of beans’ worth of difference when the people who use are the same gaggle of junkies who overtly do NOT want to help themselves but want the general public to supply three hots and a cot while they continue shooting up.
This is one step closer helping Indy mimic the example of a West Coast city. Californian cities are not even really First World anymore.
We still aren’t spending nearly enough money on mental health facilities and addiction facilities. I fear that those who want to turn those in both categories into revenue opportunities for their private companies will get a toe into Indiana and keep it from happening.
This is the group behind the public camping bans passed in a few states and considered in Indiana.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-palantir-co-founder-is-pushing-laws-to-criminalize-homeless-encampments-nationwide/
these people have to want to be helped.
Exactly, Corey. And the very evidence that a demand for these sad “low-barrier shelters” is proof that they don’t want the help. They want to continue shooting up with impunity. The delusion that inadequate funding for mental health treatment and addiction will make the problem go away is precisely what has gotten us here in the first place. The idea that people would shoot up and take a dump in public was revolting to 99% of the population as recently as the early 2000s. It still is to about 65%, but they don’t live in urban centers. So at least urban centers get to harbor the modern-day Hoovervilles.
Instead of criminalizing homeless encampments, we should round the people up (since most of them freeze into a dazed fentanyl slouch, that’s not too hard) and ship them to the properties of the affluent empaths who think this is a wise or virtuous solution to addiction. Since they are much better people than you and I, they can not only handle an encampment in their front yards and can administer the Narcan, but they will also inspire these junkies to give up their needles and become productive citizens.
Yeah, and I have an island off of coastal Massachusetts filled with rich people who embrace refugees that I’d like to sell you.
What got us here in the first place was closing all these facilities 40 years ago because we were too cheap. There has to be a way to do it without the abuses that (in part, along with cheapness) led for them to be closed.
Lauren, guess I’m just one of those pro-lifers who believes life is sacred and has value worth investing in.
What could possibly go wrong with no criminal background check, no sobriety and no identification?
Finally the comments speak the truth.
What you forgot to tell is the Mayor interrupted the peaceful life of three family’s next door by buying the land with no community communication with us. Thsts right! We are a street of homes. We had to fight him to buy us out and cause us to interrupt our life.
Now I own 6 more residential lots and a beautiful 17000 foot building used for office warehouse.
Thank you for the community effort RDOOR and Mr. Mayor.
Joe B. are you aware who was part of the closing of those facilities, who was the Governor and Secretary of State, the current mayor of Indy and his best friend are those that shut it all down. There are so many not for profit groups that are serving this community and trying to provide solutions and have no barrier entry. Give them the money to grow their programs, continue to develop their network. Every life is precious, every person is responsible for their own decisions and every politician should be too!