Camps Cleaned Up in Eureka
Volunteers and Law Enforcement clean up homeless camping areas along Broadway in Eureka [Photos from EPD’s Facebook page]
On Thursday, August 15, 2019, the Eureka Police Department’s Community Safety Enhancement Team (CSET), working in partnership with the Problem-Oriented Policing Unit (POP), California Department of Fish & Wildlife, and City of Eureka Code Enforcement, along with workers from Uplift Eureka, Eureka Rescue Mission, and Betty Kwan Chinn’s Day Center, conducted a clean-up operation to remove ten vacated illegal encampments located within a greenbelt area west of Broadway, Eureka.
The encampments were noticed for removal well in advance of the operation.
This collaborative effort, which included 17 Uplift Eureka program volunteers, removed 1.77 tons of garbage from this sensitive wetlands area.
The encampments were noticed for removal well in advance of the operation.
One of the abandoned encampments was connected to significant environmental damage including the digging of an approximately 30’ x 15’ x 10’ deep pond. In addition to the clean-up efforts, several non-profit social service providers were also on scene to conduct outreach to any homeless persons present.
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Lmao. For today! Wait till next week when all those free needles and free feces covered sleeping bags are piled up two blocks down. Kudos to those who do the “cleansing “
With no where to go..the people will be back or just down the street. So no big deal..keep your cleaning tribes growing! Getting ready to level a block for parking and all those people will be living on the street. EUREKA DOESN’T CARE
Why would creating the parking lot cause the residents to become homeless? Are they living rent free?
Several housing units are going to be destroyed leaving the tenants/occupants without a residence. While some tenants may be short term, chances are that others were long term residents who will face significant increases in their rents. Also, it should not be forgotten that moving/relocating entails numerous expenses, not least of which being the exorbitant [one might even be justified in using the descriptor ‘usurious’ to describe them] application fees, all of which are non-refundable and non of which guarantee anything more than a chance to win the housing lotto.
These demolitions will only serve to benefit the rentier class of Landed Gentry – the ones paying 1950s tax rates for the receipt of 21st century municipal and county services.
Thanks.
I don’t understand it either why would a housing crisis you demolish multiple houses putting at least 30 more residents on the streets when a parking structure might be more feasible there’s not enough houses or places to rent locally even when you have the money. At least one apartments being demilished has rented from the same landlord for 22 years with 2 special needs adult and a disabled Cancer survivor nobodies looking out for them nobody’s helping them find a place to live.
The pond is a nice touch. Maybe fill it with some koi to keep the sensitive wetlands area theme.
hahaha, chortle chortle snort
Eureka helped our family out in 2001. We lived in a motel under a program and had to keep things clean, sober and work hard. I believe we also paid rent ….We worked hard, we found an apartment and we had some good years there in Eureka. You can feel boxed in on the lost coast since your limited in what places there are to go. We moved to Columbus Ohio now and yet we still long for the beauty of the Ocean and the Redwoods……Best place to heal from bad experiences if you can afford the rent currently, it’s now doubled or higher…..
Landlords are looking for renters who wont trash their rental units. As a landlord i can tell you im not in it to clean up after those who rent from me. And if they cant pay rent. Out they go. I work hard to get my rentals…..as a truck driver. My bills continue weather i get paid or not. Who can afford to house people who live like such slobs. Not me. The profit turns to loss when slobs damage a place. Then landlords want out of the buisiness. Then fewer rentals and higher rent
Im selling my rentals.
Your right and reasonable to want respecting tenants. The ones who live like sl… Might??? Learn something if they mess in their own nest and get thrown out of it. It took hard work and$$ to become a home owner not to mention fixing it up to rent. The prices will keep going up when ppl don’t respect that.
Were they planning to stock the pond with fish or something?
Give the homeless people jobs cleaning those sites up and with the money they can rent a house and not be homeless .
How socialist of you. Its a slippery slope. Next thing you know we’ll expect billionaires to actually pay personal and corporate income taxes.
https://splinternews.com/amazon-made-5-6-billion-in-profits-last-year-and-repor-1823329221
So what do you think Amazon does with all that money? Which, if you add in capital that comes from selling shares, is a lot more than 6 billion. Why they do not pay taxes is because they put every bit of it into expanding. They build more buildings to streamline shipping for themselves and the retailers who sell through them. They refine and expand their internet systems and are apparently expanding into brick and mortar stores as “One person familiar with the matter previously told CNBC that Amazon is seeing an uptick in online sales in the regions where it already has a physical outpost. ” https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/19/amazon-is-firing-on-all-cylinders-to-grow-its-retail-presence.html. Which is a strange development but one that is working for them.
But as for taxing them? Direct taxes gets a business nothing these days. Government (especially local government) thrives off the Amazon expansions, with the wages they pay being taxed, the sales tax being generated while little goes out to providing Amazon with infrastructure or protection they need, the money going to building distribution centers where those generate sales and property taxes, etc.
Will Amazon reach a point of maximum saturation? Or will they be caught in a monopoly court case forcing them to disband? Or will government change the way they tax to eliminate that invest-til-you-drop strategy? Not I think until Amazon itself falls into a trap where they start creating so much dissatisfaction by screwing over their customers and/or by high handed manipulation of politics. That’s always happened in the past but we’re not there yet.
Except for New York. They’re not allowed to expand there. They don’t want those 25,000 jobs, because of reasons…
Bezos makes billions and his middle class employees pay all the taxes. That is fucking socialism for the rich. If amazon paid REAL income taxes we could buy all of the homeless their own personal version of a trump tower, complete with a golf course and jeff epstein honorary cheerleader squad. Run the math yourselves.
Why should NY taxpayers pay for amazon to expand there? I have to pay property and income taxes yet I hire people to cut my grass. Should’t I get tax relief because I bring jobs to the hood? Oh wait that only works for rich mutherfuckers that donate millions to corrupt politicians.
KAs Chief Executive Officer, Director at AMAZON.COM INC, Jeffrey P. Bezos made $1,681,840 in total compensation. Of this total $81,840 was received as a salary, $0 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $0 was awarded as stock and $1,600,000 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2018 fiscal year. “https://www1.salary.com/Jeffrey-P-Bezos-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Options-for-Amazon-Com-Inc.html
Of course he owned a large share of the stock in Amazon, recently having sold off about a billion of that.
As for New York City not wanting Amazon “After walking away from a deal to build a headquarters on the Queens waterfront in Long Island City, Amazon is back to shopping for office space on Manhattan’s West Side, sources tell The Post.” https://nypost.com/2019/05/27/amazon-is-reportedly-eyeing-office-space-on-manhattans-west-side/
If you owned a business that hired people to cut your grass, you certainly would take a tax deduction for that cost.
a tax deduction for a legitimate business expense is not exactly the same as NY offering more than $1,000,000,000 in tax relief to amazon for bringing in 25,000 jobs is it. give tax relief to the super-rich and let the middle class make up the difference., the amerikan way.
So many ‘fake’ products in Amazon. Have bought a few and had to return.
Not so glamorized by the Bezos empire so much any longer.
Yes, we should clearly save the socialism for the well-heeled and gentrified folks who know best how to make use of the gubbamint resources.
Good luck with that…
They do not want or are unable to perform work.
When many “homeless” people are provided with housing, they do get jobs and go on to normal lives. This is just a fact.
It is hard to get a job if you have no fixed address, no where to shower or store your belongings.
You too can learn and evolve.
Why did you put “homeless” in quotation marks? Yeah I imagine that housing is an important aspect to being able to perform work, and an important step in attaing mentally stability. If you think you are pointing out something that is contrary to my comment, or that I don’t agree with, you are wrong.
Not that simple
thank you. they don’t belong to live rent free. i can’t!!
Good job!
Thanks from the entire community.
Somebody might consider giving them an acre at the edge of each town with some tiny houses or shipping containers, they need to go somewhere.
Thanks again for your service group, good job!
They need to go somewhere? Yeah, they need to go to work! They need to contribute. Get clean, get the services that are provided.
and jim you need to become a billionaire with your own rocketship…..see its that easy.
They need treatment for mental illness. Sane people don’t decide to throw their lives away for drugs. The services that are provided are not the services they need.
I’ve posted this before, and I will again because it is counterintuitive information I think:
It is distressing to watch our community members fall into this pit of hopelessness when alternatives seem so blatantly obvious to us.
but studies have shown that english and american culture tends to create ‘generational poverty’ in some communities. And those families often respond with abundant statistical rates of hopelessness. https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/psychological-perspectives-poverty
“Negative [judgement from others] affect how people see themselves. Those experiencing poverty show significantly lower levels of confidence in their own ability to succeed. This has negative physical and psychological health consequences, along with reduced educational and professional attainment.”
In Britain, “A recent Institute of Education study found that teachers also attribute negative characteristics to children in poverty and perceive them to be less able. If children internalise the stereotypes projected on to them while so young, it does nothing to boost their life chances.”
And Givers by Design observe, “Extreme poverty sets in motion a chain of cause and effect that ends in hopelessness. It is important to note that the hopelessness that is the defining characteristic of extreme poverty is not a character flaw in the poor. On the contrary, it is the dehumanizing end result of this chain of cause and effect.”
and further studies have shown immigrant families tend to stay stronger and have more optimism.
The Pew Research Center Observes, “This relative optimism among Hispanics is even more notable because as a group they express less satisfaction with the quality of their own lives today (64% say it’s good or excellent) than do either whites (86% good or excellent) or blacks (76% good or excellent). One reason for the disparity in current satisfaction may be the relatively low weekly earnings of Hispanics in the U.S., which average only about two-thirds of weekly earnings among non-Hispanic Americans. Another might be their relative lack of education; 40% of Hispanics ages 25 and older have less than a high school degree compared with 16% of whites and 21% of blacks.”
but Pew’s paper only guess at the reasons, “One possible explanation is that they filter their expectations through the prism of their current, difficult circumstances. The future may look up for Hispanics, in short, because from where they sit, just about everything looks up.
“Another contributing factor might be the immigrant experience itself. Leaving one country in search of a life elsewhere is a self-selective process—the immigrant often takes on the challenge where others don’t because he or she believes that in doing so life will get better. And, even if going to a new land involves hardships, immigrants tend to believe fervently that it will make life better for their kids.”
Simply put- the constant drone of negativity in the press, academia and on the internet saps the vigor out of everyone it touches. And as soon as the second generation immigrant starts to feed on that poison, they will join the disaffected too. Hmm… The most telling thing out of those stats is that, having less education, the Hispanic immigrant has has less exposure to the drag that public education in this country has become and so do not let education’s litany of blame stop them.
Wage slavery might be the main cause of hopelessness. For many people, even if they work hard, never break the law, and are financially responsible, they will never escape wage slavery, never own land, never find their work fulling, never earn enough to have self-respect.
If I had to slave away making other people rich for twenty-something an hour, for decades, I’d probably resort to crime.
This is the dumbest thing ive ever heard.
Surprisingly working got me all those things that you said most never get. Personal knowledge is that it worked for the previous 3 generations in addition to the succeeding 2 generations. I’ll not say work was easy but, yes, it was in large part fulfilling. And it was certainly an education that far exceeded any formal schooling.
Hmm,
thanks.
You are a spoiled american…..dont even know it.
choices
What they didn’t give them abatement for the pond? And you know that wasn’t going to be a pond. Mad max fighting pit.
I’m confused on who dug the pond? Was it the homeless people?
I vote for the dogs of the houseless that dug the hole.
Thank you for cleaning up the mess to all of those that helped I wonder if putting some big garbage bins with help do you think they would use them I don’t know what to say about the homeless issue but I do know one thing people are afraid they don’t want them in their neighborhood and I can’t say I can blame them they worry about robbing they worry about drugs especially people with children
1.5 tons = 3 pick up trucks worth if the pickups are 1/2 tonners.
One of those 1/2 tonners could be used every week, if the public tax funds were paying for it. Wait…
But but but, it’s too expensive to provide a weekly service. LOL
The hell are you talki g about. A half ton pickup doesnt meen the bed being full equals a half ton…. it was more than 3 pickup truck beds full thats for sure. And tax payers pay for this crap.
Tax payers also pay for wall street bailouts. I’m sure you’d feel better knowing you were paying for a hedge funder’s coke and champaign parties, but some of us have other priorities.
we have a power inn alliance here in sacramento it’s soooooo bad. they go by weekly if possible. we the people who live in the area and under roofs are paying for it !!! no one asked if we wanted it we just kept complaining of the sidewalk camping ⛺️
I’m an immigrant. I emigrated out of California to better opportunities cleaner environment less violence and also get away from the drug cartel that we’re constantly threatening my life. You guys are living in a state that is mimicking a third world country get used to it. Or something different. Right now the way you guys are voting you’re going to be entrenched in that b******* forever.
And I didn’t look much like a pond to me it look like a grave. Probably planning on murdering somebody. Make eye contact, smile be friendly.
There are other areas with the same problems. Lucas St. I think it’s privately owned.
>”One of the abandoned encampments was connected to significant environmental damage including the digging of an approximately 30’ x 15’ x 10’ deep pond.”
Too much work… bums didn’t dig that pit.
maybe they were mining for meth?
Lake Meth?
I am confused on who dug the pond?
The Butler did it.
~for what its worth, during Occupy Eureka i came into contact with several of the occupiers, who, to my surprise chose to be ‘street people’. I was shocked when giving three of them a ride, (different days, one each) to their parent’s home in Eureka. Nice homes. Went inside and met the families. The other thing i picked-up on, these people were street smart. They knew exactly what was goin down in Eureka.
I also have a friend in Hydesville, w/3 bdrm ranch home and all the bells and whistles, who is not short on $, and he would rather be with the Fortuna people living outside. He does give rides, buys food, and sometimes cash.
Pond looks 16′ long x12′ wide x 8′ deep. Guess I need to calibrate my eyeballs.
Homeless are here by choice vecause of the amount of socual services they receive. Tax payers pay for the clean up and all the services they receive including needles…it truly needs to stoo. They get social security and a ton of other services and blow it all on drugs…bleeding hearts need to stop. Homeless are ruining our communities
I doubt that is true. Most social services are not of use to the homeless. Probably the biggest support cones from private entities like St. Vincent’s, Eureka Rescue and Betty Chin’s. Even the needle exchange is run in part by non government organization HACHR. But it’s true that a very small segment of the population gets a huge share of resources.
I agree 100%. At some point these people made the conscious choice to drop out of society and become ” non-conformist”. They don’t want to work or pay rent and bills. They want to live outside the lines and do as they please without ” the man” looking over their shoulder. They don’t like rules and believe that by being homeless they are free from the normal restraints of living life with any structure. Meanwhile they leave their trails of filth behind them for others to clean because they are lazy. They expect people to feel sorry for them and then get angry when they don’t. They expect their monthly SSI checks that those of us who actually work for a living, subsidize for them so they can buy booze and drugs and camp out wherever they please instead of trying to get housing or jobs. They made the choice and frankly I’m fed up! Fed up with their defacating in yards, leaving their condoms and bottles and needles and mattresses and sleeping bags and all their filth. I’m fed up with the stealing and breaking into cars and digging through my garbage. There is no solution other than to stop spoiling them and feeling sorry for them and making it easier for them to live their choice of a degenerate life at our expense and at the expense of destroying the beauty of this area.
agreed they are taking over. they have more rights than us taxpayers do. had one in my backyard. told him to get out while calling the police. they said to ask him very nicely to leave. he wasn’t so i started throwing small rocks at him and i told the officer he was not leaving. i told him i threw rocks and he said i they could come out and arrest me for using unnecessary violence! told him if they don’t handle it i will . no police ever came and man jumped fence . so what can we do? invite them in for a freggin meal !! not all are mentally lll. just don’t want any responsibility.
America relax, this is your government We have everything under control, now go back to watching American Gladiators
Homelessness is not the problem. Lack of affordable housing is the bigger issue. Housing First models have been proven all across the country to work. Having said that, the Betty Chinn Orgs, and the City of Eureka are in the trenches working with those everyday to help them in their needs and goals. Let’s face facts, many in our community are one or two paychecks away from being on the street. The City is going to start a rent ready program with grant funds to pay to get people in housing. This was voted on at a city council meeting a few months back. There is good things brewing for the homeless here. Keep up the good works
Eureka helped our family out in 2001. We lived in a motel under a program and had to keep things clean, sober and work hard. I believe we also paid rent ….We worked hard, we found an apartment and we had some good years there in Eureka. You can feel boxed in on the lost coast since your limited in what places there are to go. We moved to Columbus Ohio now and yet we still long for the beauty of the Ocean and the Redwoods……Best place to heal from bad experiences if you can afford the rent currently, it’s now doubled or higher…..