A California The city plans to stop Housing WHO refuse their offer refuge.
The mayor of San José, Matt Mahan, admitted last month.
Just 48 miles south of San Francisco, where officials also have trouble solving homelessMahan aims to integrate the proposal into a pending budget plan that would allocate funding for shelter and temporary housing, by Kqd.
If he was promulgated, non -Lodi residents would first see a quote or a warning. They would only be subject to an arrest if they refuse the refuge that three times.
The city of nearly a million exploits tiny houses, converted motels and parking lots as part of its 1,000 shelter spaces. The construction of temporary housing was a characteristic of the mayor's agenda.
City staff were faced with challenges when they try to encourage unhappy people to take beds in a new temporary housing site of 204 units that opened in February. People who currently live outside near a housing site can accept places before the opening of the building.
The Department of Plages and Ports of the County Los Angeles assisted by the police puts a cleaning operation to eliminate homeless camps at the Dockweiler State beach in Playa Del Rey, Los Angeles in 2024 (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
“If someone refuses a brand new apartment with an adjoining bathroom and a kitchenette, as is the case in Branham and Monterey – where we have just seen around a third of the people camped in the region, say` `non '' – we are probably beyond the point where the city has the tools to help this person,” said Mahan, according to the radio station.
About 5,477 people live in San José without shelter. Among these, around 541 people resisted help.
The majority of people who reject aid could face problems of chronic roaming or behavioral health and dependence, Mahan wrote in a AVERAGE article.
He noted that the city would only plan to impose intrusion laws as a last resort to get someone from the street.
Intrusion violations are subject to a behavioral health court. Once in court, a judge will listen to health professionals and decide if the compulsory treatment is justified, Mahan wrote.
Persons accused of intrusion will not spend time in prison.
“Our best scenario is the diversion of mental health or the drug court and that the worst case is that the person is simply released in the street where we can only hope that this brief interaction with the police could increase their will to ask for a change in his life by accepting a shelter,” continued the mayor.
He said that the city had listened to the community of homeless on the problems underway with shelters and stressed that most of the accommodation offered resemble market-rate housing or university dormitory. He expects hundreds of other units to be built this year.
Photos of temporary housing offered by San José (Medium / Matt Mahan)
People are allowed to bring their partner, their pets and their personal effects with them on the sites. Individuals will not be expelled on a predetermined chronology. Some could spend a few months in transitional accommodation before moving to something permanent, while others could take years.
“In no case do I judge people who suffer from dependence or other forms of mental illness,” he wrote. “But I believe that we have the collective responsibility to bring them inside and give them a chance to detoxify, drugs, reconnect with loved ones or accept help they need to achieve greater health and independence and have less impact on the wider community.
“Otherwise, we leave our most vulnerable to continue to deteriorate in our streets without any plan in place to help them.”
The only expectation, says Mahan, is to come inside to “stop continuous fires, garbage and other impacts of long -term camps that harm our collective security and our quality of life”.
He added: “If someone does not agree with these expectations, he is free to find another city that refuses to intervene and help people when his behavior harms his own health and the safety of the community. Because in San José, our community does not want to allow an indefinite public campsite when the accommodation is available.”
