SharpeScooterShooter
SharpeShooter
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Yes. You nailed it right here.…
Nothing failed about Salt Lake City, except they listened to arguments like you're making now and allowed the program to end. It was a 10 year program that saved them a ton of money and virtually eliminated homelessness, drastically reduced crime, reduced emergency services and reduced property damage.
They stopped funding it after the 10 year program concluded and saw homelessness come back and then saw spending drastically increase on homelessness with tent cities, overworked emergency services, police, and damaged public spaces.
Yes, if you end a program it will end…
Nobody wants to pay into something all their life for someone else failures. Regardless if it costs a little less. Well i shouldn't say nobody. You do. So go get a bill enacted and get it to vote. Not many people feel like you do on this and want to pay their whole life. If 10 years of pay on doesn't fix it for the future then it didn't work. It was just cleaning up the mess without a plan to curtail it in the future.
10 years is plenty of time to fund a program enough to be able to stop the program and have the fix continue.
I take drivers ed. i dont become a bad driver again if i stop taking it. I take college courses. I don't forget what i learned and regress if i stop taking courses.
Find a program that can be funded for a decade that creates a fix for the future that stems longer than a decade(permanent fix) instead of sweeping it under the rug and ill back it. Until then i will not.