A home for the homeless discussion (a thread about it)

[wwmiv]

Frankly, a lot of these issues will be solved as the area is redeveloped from student housing (where the residents accept vagrancy and don’t report issues, and so enforcement is never there) to apartments and condos and mixed-use areas populated by middle class professionals who have a stake in the area. These people report issues and don’t accept crime in their midst. It’s easier from an enforcement perspective if you constantly have caring and concerned eyes on the public space.

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

Frankly, a lot of these issues will be solved as the area is redeveloped from student housing (where the residents accept vagrancy and don’t report issues, and so enforcement is never there) to apartments and condos and mixed-use areas populated by middle class professionals who have a stake in the area. These people report issues and don’t accept crime in their midst. It’s easier from an enforcement perspective if you constantly have caring and concerned eyes on the public space.

You would think landlords would care about their neighborhoods having those problems, but the problem there is a lot of landlords aren't actually local. So they aren't seeing it and their tenants don't care, so the problem persists. The issue there is none of the parties - not the tenants or the landlords or even the homeless have a stake in the neighborhood as you said.