This is a Homeless Village just off Northwood Drive behind DW Burt concrete. As the
crow flies maybe 1 mile from the Mayor's residence.
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You can bet that this will all be gone by close of business today. And then back by the end of the week.
Silly Blogger. Salisbury doesn't have homeless people . . . or crime . . . or gangs . . . or drug problems . . . or . . . prostitution . . . or . . .
They will be moving soon. Probably going to be developed in the near future
If thats in city limits the mayor should go tax them.
It appears to be alot cleaner than some of the residential properties in the city. Pride in Ownership
That looks like something out of the movie Deliverence.
What is sad is that now they will be run off.
The big question is ...With over 1 million families projected to loose their homes this year; just where will all of them go?
Yes some will have families that will take them in, and there are shelters, but shelters are very limited already.
Mark my words it will be a crime to be poor in this country in the next five years, and the person who lives in the house down the street from you, with the two kids and a dog may very well end up in this situation. The children will be taken away from their parents, and their parents will be jailed.
It will get worse, and poverty will be the crime!
Joe:
Now - thanks to your exposure - they will be forced to migrate other locations around Salisbury that are much worse and more dangerous for them.
Barrie should get that FOB who owns the old "Movies 6" theater on Main Street to open it to them.
I have to agree with Wymzie, things will get worse. There is one homeless guy right here in Salisbury who walks RT. 13 a lot, long graying hair and beard. He has family here and they have tried to help him.
Apparently he has some kind of mental illness, I don't think he should be committed to an asylum. If he need's his family is always there for him, it seems to be a life style he chooses. I don't think he drinks or does drugs.
From what I hear he's also no threat to commit a crime. I don't think he's on any public assistance and I've never seen him bummimg for money. He's been around here a long time.
The vast majority of homeless suffer from mental illness and often abuse drugs and alcohol to suppress the symptoms of their disease. Exposing their camps will most likely move them closer to your neighborhood. The local leaders may ,in fact, be responsible for, many of the areas ills but homelessness is not one of them. As noted some prefer to live in this manner and most don't harm anyone but themselves.
"Mark my words it will be a crime to be poor in this country in the next five years, and the person who lives in the house down the street from you, with the two kids and a dog may very well end up in this situation. The children will be taken away from their parents, and their parents will be jailed.
It will get worse, and poverty will be the crime!"
1) Could you be more paranoid?
2) Obama will make sure that the poor are the overwhelming majority in the country therefore, it won't be illegal.
These camps during the Depression were known as 'Hooverville'.
When I lived in Los Angeles in the 80's, Reagan changed the laws affecting the mentally ill, and public funding was no longer available to keep the mentally ill in institutions. It was as if a flood gate opened one day there was maybe 4 or 5 homeless folks in Hollywood, and the next day there were hundreds!
Downtown LA had a huge encampment on a giant vacant lot and it was known as tent city. Whole families lived here, along with the mentally ill individuals. It was close to the Homeless Mission that provided food for them. Many of the men who lived there would stand on the corners in the morning flagging down work trucks to try and get day jobs. My husband would hire them often for work he needed done.
It was truly one of the saddest things you would ever want to see.
But what was even sadder...when the City told the LAPD to kick them out, because they made the owner of the property develop the land because it was now a nusense property.
They destroyed Tent City, and close knit community was completely displaced. The homeless were everywhere, they took up residence wherever they could under bridges, empty buildings, in the old train cars in the hills, in cardboard boxes in alleys.
The city then replaced all of the bus benches with benches that had dividers on them so one couldn't lie down on them. The started lying underneath and they were replaced again with platform bottoms that couldn't be accessed.
The Homeless issue is a constant. It will never go away, and we must accept this fact.
We cannot build enough homeless shelters for them. Being homeless contributes to mental illness because one is sooo vulnerable that it makes one incredibly unstable.
Having volunteered in a homeless shelter for nearly two years, personally think that if there is a place that they feel safe on a vacant lot, or in a patch of woods they are better off, than they are if they are constantly be harassed and rousted being told to move on.
Where are they going to go?
I'd rather see the homeless living there than another gd'ed development.
George Bush assured us of poverty. Stop blaming the Democrats. Bush and McCain will assure wealth for the top 1% in the country, the rest be damned. Go shop at Walmart.
Wonder if McCain knows the cost of a gallon of milk. Probably not; he doesn't know how many houses he owns. Or his wife, for that matter. She has the money....
maybe they just dont want to play the game.
While you were back ther snooping aroung their place, did you offer them any food or water or shampoo or trashbags for all that mess. I really doubt these people are hurting anyone.
9:43 the guy your talking about is the man who lives at this camp. He does have family who want to help him but he will not take it. He will not take money or food from anybody.
"Go shop at Walmart." What is that supposed to mean? Walmart has saved my family a lot of money over the years. Their business model is one of the most successful in the world. America should be proud of Walmart. But, because it is successful, the more progressive your ideology, the more evil Walmart is. What is wrong with profit? If Walmart closed tomorrow, what would unemployment levels look like?
Joe,
PLEASE leave the homeless alone in their camp. The reason I'm pleading with you is that they live there in relative peace away from residential areas. The last time the police tried to move them they ended up in our backyard. The police know and have known of this camp for years. They don't bother anybody or call attention to themselves for fear of being thrown out. Do you really think a homeless person is afraid of being arrested and put in a warm jail where they are fed? I do give food and a little cash to these people.
Face reality - Salisbury does have homeless people. Welcome to the real world.
Jon Gray I finally found your hiding place in the woods. Im coming for my child support now
AFTER THIS BLOG YOU CAN BET THAT THIS WILL BE "REMOVED"......THEY SHOULD MOVE OVER TO ISABELLA........
Joe you could always let them live in your empty building downtown.
I thought is was an advertisement for Gemcraft homes.
should have left well enough alone... could be you one day... some people just refuse to live the way you expect them to....
some people just refuse to live the way you expect them to....
that includes a certain paid salisbury firefighter who doesn't want to pay any child support for his daughter, yet claims to anyone who'd listen that he's the best dad in the world.
you'd expect that someone who took an oath to protect the community would man up and at least financially care for his own child. he may have seen his child five times this year. he doesn't check on how the child is doing in school, come to dance competitions, or take the child to learn how to drive. things a father may enjoy, he chooses not to be a part of.
its sad for the children when a grown man refuses to live the way you expect him to
Quit picking on the paid firemen. How do you expect us to pay child support when there are bills to pay and our gracious mayor wont give us a raise.
this paid fireman purposefully requested to come off shift work and go to day work so he didn't have to get a second job. any real man would do what he needed to do to support his children
Comegeys isnt a paid fireman
The comments are about a paid firefighter, however, they could be about Gary Comegys as well.
These homeless people should be given the old firehouse to live in. It was good enough for out brave firefighters, why not let the homeless of Salisbury live there.
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