So, apparently, even though all the beds at Salvation Army are not filled every night, we need to provide more housing/shelter for the homeless. Only they want to put in "wet housing" in some of our rooming houses here in the Southend. Conveniently, the north end probably "doesn't have" any rooming houses. A wet house is a residence where the person still gets to do drugs. You know, what I might consider a CRACK HOUSE...especially when you see some of the properties that may have been getting the once over this week. Some of them are quite possibly crackhouses already.
A large number of the "rooming houses" in this area are owned by the same pariah that owns/owned Spanglish and the old church...the guy that sells them and then steals them back....the guy with the current crack house up the road and several unsavory properties up around the other corner. Other properties and landlords around here are really just as bad, a continuing source of aggravation and dispair to the neighbourhoods they are in. Revolving doors of crack and meth, deteriorating conditions, stacks of garbage and foulness. And now? Maybe the landlords get a reward for their behaviour instead of jailtime...which is what should be happening to them...or they should have to live in one of these places. Already the song and dance is started with certain city officials in response to our questions and concerns. It is enough to really HATE living here sometimes. Did I mention how much the city says our property values have gone up in two years? How much more they want in taxes? Holy cripes, folks. When do we get to see the return of our investment? And I don't mean with another social service agency...I think we have our fair share and then some....and then some more.
Also, a "Living Room" or drop-in centre....again, the Salvation Army presented the need to open this giant Wal-mart of a service centre in the downtown...they were going to have a DROP-IN CENTRE down there. They accepted the money for it. Give back the damn money or do what you said your were going to do. Instead, now VIHA feels the need to place another drop-in Centre somewhere in Nanaimo...hmmmm, will it be in the North End or in any other town centre like every study that has been sponsored has said to do ? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. And you know, the last one they ran went so well, too. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will money be going straight to the pariahs who have been feeding off the southend for years?
Probably won't get a straight answer on that either. See, we don't know for sure, because Vancouver Island Health Authority sees no reason to involve the possible new neighbours in this at all. No reason at all to talk to us about it. Typical. Typically gross and disrepectful behaviour from agencies meant to be bettering peoples lives...and I thought they were there to better ALL OF OUR lives. Silly me
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Wethouses? No, really. I have no response to that at all....
The same question plaques me now as it has for as long as I have lived here: Why are they betting the bank for us all here with that stupid convention center if they want every addict and misfit hanging around it?
Ok, not so politically correct, but who in their right mind is going to be in another town, in a meeting to decide where to hold their big shindig of a convention and suddenly blurt out "I know!!! Let's have it in that town that has that big homeless shelter next door. I have lots of spare change!"
Maybe when the convention center fails it will become low income housing...I was guessing a Wal-Mart (as which point I would move).
Wethouses?!? What a stupid idea.
As that doesn't refer to the plumbing it has to be considered odd at least.
Can I have a 'wet house' for drinking beer? I'd like that.
The world is terminally insane.
I will now have yet another vodka to retain what's left of my sanity.
The way governments are run — cities, states, countries (and let us not forget corporations!) — leave a terrible taste in my mouth. I think it's mainly because most people who aspire to run them are typically clueless nimrods. It gets very depressing.
On another subject...you might like the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency books. It's true, they are not the hard-boiled "Elvis Cole" type stories (which I also love!), but they are uplifting and witty and very enjoyable.
As for a "wethouse"? That has to be the stupidest idea yet. Oddly this hasn't been mentioned in the local rags yet, unless I missed it.
When you said "wethouse" I first thought you were referring to all those rotting California stucco palaces and condos here on the wet coast!
olly, sending newspaper article to your email....
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