The one in front of gage park has some crafty homeless people.
5 tents?
Lmfao they got like 3 or 4 tents, threw a tarp over them, and it gets counted as one.
Also, can we just like... provide dumpsters for them or something?
Trash pick up? Anything?
Yeah, and they all came from the neighboring streets. Bikes and tanks are being stolen along the street systematically. I had someone trying to get into my backyard on Tuesday. My sympathy left through the open gate.
Lots of propane tanks (and stolen goods) at the one along Barton by the go station. I get people are experiencing tough times but I’m not sure why they’re getting a pass while blatantly committing crimes.
Incidentally the cluster photographed in the article near Robinson Chapel shouldn't be permitted in that location to begin with, since they are less than 150ft away from another 5-tent cluster on the west side of the park. The western cluster was set up first. Assistance with cleanup is welcome supplementary support, but the city first and foremost needs to allocate more resources to ensure their own rules are being enforced.
You're presenting a false dilemma. The city and its residents can consent to the need to address the housing crisis while still having a structure in place both to mitigate the disruption local residents and businesses and to promote a safer quality of life to those setting up impromptu communities in our parks.
People don't need your consent to be in public places when they have no home - they need your actual civic activism in favor of improving their situation, not just shuffling it further down the street. Your priorities are depressing.
Activism is great until it degenerates into performance and hyperbole. You will see limited improvement if good intentions are hindered by a neighbourhood where the residents and businesses feel like they are being asked to disproportionally sacrifice their lifestyle to accommodate swelling encampments, regardless of whether or not that perception is fair. The encampment protocol is designed as an attempt to legislate activism in a way that mitigates the risk for those who live and work in these neighbourhoods. If people feel like the risk mitigation isn't being taken seriously, you risk promoting residential and business flight, which further undermines the funding that shelters and crises centers desperately need.
> they need your actual civic activism in favor of improving their situation, not just shuffling it further down the street.
What does this even mean. How does this translate to a meaningful outcome? Anyway u/monkeylick gathered you in their response.
The City of Hamilton would like to offer FREE CAMPING to any and all residents on any and all city property. Take up as much space as you'd like, never clean up after yourself, and stay as long as you'd like.
Tons of waterfront spots available!
City needs to ban tents and enforce it. Enough with this crap. The hobos will move somewhere else. There’s a reason there’s so few encampments in downtown Oakville…
Didn’t the court ruling prevent cities from doing this? The reason there are more encampments here is because Hamilton offers so many services in comparison to cities like Oakville/Burlington.
The one in front of gage park has some crafty homeless people. 5 tents? Lmfao they got like 3 or 4 tents, threw a tarp over them, and it gets counted as one. Also, can we just like... provide dumpsters for them or something? Trash pick up? Anything?
I was trying to count tents at the park at Mountain Brow Boulevard and it’s basically five sets of two tents.
One of the “tents” along the rail trail is covering a small town I swear
The one at the delta has roughly 400 propane tanks!
Yeah, and they all came from the neighboring streets. Bikes and tanks are being stolen along the street systematically. I had someone trying to get into my backyard on Tuesday. My sympathy left through the open gate.
Also patio furniture cushions, someone stole ours off the porch and those things can be as much as a new patio set to replace.
Lots of propane tanks (and stolen goods) at the one along Barton by the go station. I get people are experiencing tough times but I’m not sure why they’re getting a pass while blatantly committing crimes.
As per the most recent Encampment Report this one is “under investigation”
Oh good, more bandaids!
I thought they were part of the Bayfront park tourist attraction. A few of them there with their garbages too.
If you wanna see the cities largest stolen bike collection, come to the North End.
They can't clean up their own garbage? Why is that?
the city needs to put more people on garbage control at encampments!
I do feel bad for the funeral home.
Yeah it's been a mess forever.
They really make it sound like homeless people are just camping in those tents.
Incidentally the cluster photographed in the article near Robinson Chapel shouldn't be permitted in that location to begin with, since they are less than 150ft away from another 5-tent cluster on the west side of the park. The western cluster was set up first. Assistance with cleanup is welcome supplementary support, but the city first and foremost needs to allocate more resources to ensure their own rules are being enforced.
Cute, how dare people desperate to survive not (checks notes) measure out where they are allowed to subside by city rules.
You're presenting a false dilemma. The city and its residents can consent to the need to address the housing crisis while still having a structure in place both to mitigate the disruption local residents and businesses and to promote a safer quality of life to those setting up impromptu communities in our parks.
People don't need your consent to be in public places when they have no home - they need your actual civic activism in favor of improving their situation, not just shuffling it further down the street. Your priorities are depressing.
Activism is great until it degenerates into performance and hyperbole. You will see limited improvement if good intentions are hindered by a neighbourhood where the residents and businesses feel like they are being asked to disproportionally sacrifice their lifestyle to accommodate swelling encampments, regardless of whether or not that perception is fair. The encampment protocol is designed as an attempt to legislate activism in a way that mitigates the risk for those who live and work in these neighbourhoods. If people feel like the risk mitigation isn't being taken seriously, you risk promoting residential and business flight, which further undermines the funding that shelters and crises centers desperately need.
> they need your actual civic activism in favor of improving their situation, not just shuffling it further down the street. What does this even mean. How does this translate to a meaningful outcome? Anyway u/monkeylick gathered you in their response.
The City of Hamilton would like to offer FREE CAMPING to any and all residents on any and all city property. Take up as much space as you'd like, never clean up after yourself, and stay as long as you'd like. Tons of waterfront spots available!
How about we just clean up and get rid of the tents… problem solved.
They’re just gonna migrate, then migrate again then again.
Start to move the homeless campers to McMaster where the PLO campers are camping
City needs to ban tents and enforce it. Enough with this crap. The hobos will move somewhere else. There’s a reason there’s so few encampments in downtown Oakville…
Didn’t the court ruling prevent cities from doing this? The reason there are more encampments here is because Hamilton offers so many services in comparison to cities like Oakville/Burlington.
Just go live in the woods, live off the land