As I See It
More options for housing homeless
The back and forth over how to handle the homeless continues Thursday evening. The La Crosse Common Council has a special meeting planned to consider where the homeless could be allowed to stay. That is a good start, because the city has largely told the homeless where they can’t go, but not where they can go. That could change tonight. The council will consider a long list of possible locations for the homeless to reside. They include again allowing the homeless to legally camp in city parks, something the city has recently prohibited. Those parks include Wittenberg Park, Erickson Park and Sherwood Park. Other possible outdoor locations include the green space by the City Hall Parking lot between 6th and 7th streets, as well as the county parking lot. Indoor locations being considered include the former fire station number two on Monitor Street, the Northside Policing Center, and the Norwood Inn and Suites on French Island. None of these locations are without drawbacks, and those living near these locations have flooded city hall with letters of complaint. But the homeless have to go somewhere, and finally the city may be a bit closer to determining where that will be.
Bob N.
August 8, 2024 at 6:16 am
You could have written this 3 years ago, Scott. Slow learners abound these days. “The definition of insanity…….”
David Greener
August 8, 2024 at 11:25 am
Yep
walden
August 8, 2024 at 5:06 pm
If you drive along north Rose Street by the La Crosse Players statue vagrant encampment most days there are used styrofoam food containers there waiting to be picked up by “someone.” These vagrants are actually having food delivered to their camps and their refuse picked up again by someone probably on the City payroll.
It’s basically “room service” at taxpayer expense. If you want to, or have to, be homeless why wouldn’t you take advantage of hospitality like that?
Mike Kopski
August 8, 2024 at 7:02 am
Bus tickets to Sunny California. One and to done. Stop dealing with the ones who don’t want help, who like there life style, and are getting everything free.
David Greener
August 8, 2024 at 11:25 am
Yep
David Greener
August 8, 2024 at 11:30 am
You don’t help the homeless you only enable them. It’s a suckers game thinking you are going to reform or change them. You have to ask yourself how much your willing to give, cuzz that’s how much they are going to take with absolutely no returns to you. Chase them out of town and make them somebody else’s problem. Is there a pied piper for the homeless? If there is hire him to get them out of town. It could be a parade of sorts. I would watch it.