Everyday I almost kill some Yalie who very much as entitled as you can get just jets into the middle of the street

I don’t understand why so many people keep saying this. What changes about the situation if someone is homeless in New Haven but grew up elsewhere? I grew up in another town but I’m a resident here now

It’s pretty much a bodybuilding gym I’ve gone there forever but I’m a bodybuilder. Services are zero, 30$ they have everything you need if you are into hypertrophy. And it’s not really s reasonable commute without a car but with one from downtown it’s <10 min

So...you want to increase reading levels? It is more complex than just blaming teachers/school system.

What helps children read? Stable home life. Healthy pre-natal care. Post-natal care. Healthy food and clean water. Oh, and clean air. Not to mention clean housing...no lead paint. And families that earn a thriving wage. Paying people shit wages leads to shit results.

Free day care. Or better yet, communities where day care isn't necessary because a parent does not need to work.

You know, all those things that the majority of the suburbs have.

How about Universal Basic Income? Can't work? You get money to live.

Can work but wages are shit because of capitalism? You get money to live.

and mental health services

Ok but let’s be honest a large number of the homeless are not originally from New Haven but have come here from surrounding towns. This has to be state wide solution. Having a place that causes such tremendous problems in the city is not a solution.

No one has a solution. My partner volunteers at the site, women are assaulted/raped, piles of diarrhea, drunk fights, needles, rodents, etc. 5 days ago a woman was gang raped at this site.

Homeless people sleeping in doorways downtown? I sleep.

Homeless people setting up tents in a park away from the general public? Real shit.

Where should homeless people be able to sleep in your opinion? Should it be illegal to be homeless?

Who approved an 8 day deadline to demolish the tents? This had to pass by the mayor’s office and nothing in the article says otherwise.

That’s not Edgewood Park, the site was the intersection of the Boulevard and Post Road.

https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/New-Haven-homeless-encampment-bulldozed-after-11322145.php

Was this Elicker’s fault?

Do you all have amnesia? This is not Elicker’s fault. Unless you or someone you know can solve homelessness, you need to hop off.

https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/New-Haven-homeless-encampment-bulldozed-after-11322145.php

Good name for a band!

> because they have curfews.

And bedbugs, and stressed-out staff, and others who are down on their luck who sometimes are not the kindest of individuals.

SOURCE: past volunteer work

A lot of homeless wouldnt be able to maintain a steady job and remain drug free to pay bills like that even if rent was cheap. You want less homeless, being back thr asylums tbh, they just closed them not realizing that without somewhere to keep the mentally ill, they just flit in between methadone clinics and hospital Emergency departments not ever getting the help they need.

Very sad

what's the rent for two rooms (ideally on the same floor?)

Let’s hope Elicker doesn’t get reëlected.

It was in the south end of Edgewood Park, along the West River, kinda by the Westville Music Bowl but south of Rt 34. It’s not really a part of the park that people frequent and they weren’t bothering anyone, you could see some tops of the tents from the road but that’s about it.

anyone know where this tent city had been? from the looks of it, it was very recluse and out of eyesight

There's definitely a crossover even if they can be very different worlds in one city. It's only my opinion but I feel like there are more yalies who become new haveners than there are new haveners becoming yalies

Either way idgaf who you are or where you're from just look before you walk out in the middle of the street and we're solid

And yet it has its share of Yalies, at least Yale employees and some Yale graduates who do their stints in city hall

The solutions, eg homeless shelters, are almost impossible to fit in with holding down jobs and so on and a lot of other things. They can bury you deeper into poverty. If you know the scene, you understand why they’d do almost anything to avoid them. Some of the people in that tent encampment have full time jobs. Homelessness is one of the very hardest conditions to dig out of. It’s hard to explain it unless you’ve been through it or worked closely with people in it. By bulldozing this place the city has added to its troubles, as this was stable and housing is scarce and too expensive

No one wants to stay in the shelters because they have curfews.