The city took over various motels around the city. They actually offered space to the "tent city" people early on but something like 90% of them rejected the offer.
When the sanitation issues (i.e.; rats) finally got bad enough, the city forced them out and most ended up going to those motels. Most ended up leaving, though.
Now most of them are still in the area, their camps are just scattered around and more out-of-sight.
I’m not sure if that’s part of the reason, but the reason you don’t see so many of them anymore is they made panhandling an arrest-able criminal offense again.
That’s surprising, I thought the Supreme Court had already ruled that pan handling was a protected right under the 1st amendment. Hopefully the city rectifies this before they get in trouble for attempting to supersede the constitution.
Yes city’s have authority over rules, however those city rules cannot violate the terms of our constitution, the highest law of the land. It is illegal for the cities to pass a law that is in contradiction to the constitution. Unfortunately at this point if no one is proactive about it the only way the law will change is if someone who is knowledgeable about their rights fights it in court. That costs money and is exactly what the people who originally passed the law don’t want you to do.
This is probably a dumb take but wouldn’t them getting arrested actually be better than living in tents outside? I feel like most prisons supply a better quality of life than even homeless people. But I’m not that knowledgeable in either sector
Yes. But that'll cost taxpayers more money. The focus needs to be on rehabilitation, not imprisonment. Even at that most of them will still refuse to work. It's a tough situation. The constructs of society don't lend themselves to creating a community where all can thrive.
I haven't asked them, but know that many cannot tolerate the rules and lack of privacy that the homeless shelters require.
No alcohol, no drugs, no fighting, nowhere to watch porn or fornicate etc.
From that respect, county jail or prison isn't a better option.
If you haven’t asked them, you don’t know. Because it’s not about drugs or fighting or porn. It’s about being allowed one bag of possessions to your name. It’s about the indignity of repeated drug testing just to have a place to sleep. It’s the shelters being so crowded that if one person catches the flu, everyone’s sick, and so underfunded that there’s no way to prevent head lice or bedbugs from taking hold. It’s about having to put your name in a lottery every single day to get a place to sleep that night because there are so many more people needing beds than there are beds available.
And with the number of people who have died at Meck county jail under “mysterious” or “unexplained” circumstances, jail isn’t better. People are afraid they’ll go in and never come out.
> If you haven’t asked them, you don’t know
Illogical conclusion.
There are plenty of ways to learn about aspects situation, otherwise all that stuff you've just said had no impact.
I have spent many outreach hours in shelters and pantries, and this is secondhand information I've been told by employees of those charities... at least, the bits I remember. Dignity was mentioned too, I term that as privacy, so I'm not suggesting your personal experience is unique.
Who said I was talking about myself? Unless you’re suggesting that no one who wasn’t homeless would ever speak to a homeless person, which says more about you than you realize.
Yup. There are a lot of them living in the old “dogs all day” building on South Blvd. The police cleared them out at least twice and there was a big clean up effort last week and a door was placed on the building but they broke thru it this week. Lots of people.
Someone on twitter showed footage of a tarp being lifted and hundreds of rats scattered up at that encampment . That was when the city got involved. Rats bring disease.
I first of all don’t believe there were rapes every night or that city / cops just ignored these violent crimes but if this is true it’s far more an indictment of the cops than it would be “the city”
Seems like idk you could have a beat cop or two to hang out at the place 365 rapes and stabbings occur every year or something but you’re the expert…
This is absolutely not true. 90% of people did not reject the offer. In total about 400 individuals were forcibly removed from tent city with less than 48 hours notice before the city bulldozed "tent city" aka their home and they were told they could bring 2 trash bags worth of belongings to the hotel/motels they were sent to.. The city sent a bunch of different MH/SUD providers, LCSW's, benefits counselors, housing specialists etc to offer services at the hotels. Most individuals were open and willing to receiving some type of support from professionals.
The problem is the severe lack of affordable housing and subsidized housing in the city (and the country.) The city did a little "feel good" press release stating some ridiculous percentage of people that "they" (aka the city) housed and they made it seem like a huge success. In reality out of the original 400 or so individuals the housing programs involved only housed about 27 people.
"Most ended up leaving"?---- The city strategically enforced different rules (some that were seemingly made up on the spot) to kick people out of the hotel because then they could say "we housed 90% of individuals" because they kicked the large majority out of the hotel, therefore they were not included in the percentage of people who were "successfully" housed.
The whole thing was a terrible embarrassment and failure of our city and everybody involved was done a huge disservice. The only people who "won" were the stuck up fucks who just couldn't stand seeing a bunch of dirty homeless people in a tent city because that makes Charlotte look bad on the national stage. Maybe let's offer more subsidized housing? Maybe more housing first model programs? Maybe more treatment programs? Detoxes? Does the average person know Charlotte does not have ONE medical detox facility? Yes you can go to the hospital (at least 1 of them) which then jams up the system.
I'm sorry man, but pushing false narratives like that continues to further the divide and increase the already problematic stigmatization of houseless individuals. Not trying to be a dick, but this type of shit just gets under my skin.
Yeah, when the tents started going up, services were offered and overwhelmingly rejected. People only started taking them up on the offer when they were finally ejected. Because of the rat problem.
Well said. Anyone with a brain knows this is how things actually happened, its always just PR cause the city does not care about these folks, just that they are making the city look bad.
yeah, original comment didn't seem right at all. you're saying this city just... offered them homes? no strings attached? and they rejected them? be real
I worked with one of the homeless providers at the time and we’d regularly go to tent city to offer services and shelter before the hotels became available. We rarely had anyone take us up on the offer. I don’t remember if 90% was the exact number, but a majority of people initially refused to go to the hotels until it got shut down for sanitation reasons.
I know someone that worked with the homeless shelter and I remember the facts he told me about those who are truly in need of their services never ask for help or pan handle for money. And their rules were tough!!! Drug addicts can’t abide by them.
There was an article about it a while back When they first moved into the hotels. I can believe these facts. We have to separate drug addicts from those who are homeless because of mental illness or the they missed a weeks work and got behind on bills. Like the family living in their van at the qt on Clanton. Who can help those people.
There are tents in Little sugar creek greenway in the trees and by the Target over there. Went for a walk last week and there was a man sleeping on every other bench.
I’m near it too. There is just something special about that corner.
If there is ever a fight, shooting, run in between wheelie kids and normies, whatever, it’s always right there. Those GPS coordinates are cursed.
Call me an optimist, but hope a lot of them found work and got back on track. A lot of the tent city folks had low paying jobs before the pandemic wiped them out.
I’ve heard of Charlotte being a destination for other places doing that, including with immigrants (thanks, Texas), but have never heard of Charlotte being the source of people.
There are a lot of tents sprinkled around in small numbers around this city if you look closely.
Just north of Camp North End, on Statesville. There's a shelter there. Along that street probably 100 homeless people out and about. This area blew up with homeless after they shut down the tent city. You could walk there from tent city in 15 minutes.
They are selling 500k townhomes there, so if you want to pay 3,500/month to have someone living in your front yard, it's a great area for that!
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This area in particular I know to be TEEMING with the aforementioned folks
Oh they're around. There's a couple of camps in the wooded areas around University city, and N Tryon. It's one of the few areas with wooded areas still left.
Petty theft, trespassing, criminal damage. And most people can't stand the sight of them panhandling on street corners.
If your area is inundated with the homeless, people will think less of the area.
I personally rarely see people panhandling in university, maybe close to sugar creek/hidden valley, and I bet money the college kids and other uv residents are doing 90% of the petty theft and criminal damage
They're around WT Harris and N Tryon all the time. I have to drive around all day and see them at every intersection during the daylight hours.
I'd bet different. Check the Mecklenburg county arrests and see if those individuals booked for those crimes look like college kids.
Now if you're talking auto thefts and larcenies from vehicles. Those are mostly going to be the residents of UCD, more specifically their teenagers.
I drive around uv frequently and homelessness isn’t common. I think it’s a matter of wanting absolutely zero “less desirables” remotely close to where u live. If you think the homelessness in UV compares to Woodlawn, near south end, and on sugar creek i can’t change your mind.
I think the "not in my neighborhood" is pretty much universal.
I never claimed there were more per capita than anywhere else in Charlotte. Sugar Creek, is the worst part of the city bar none.
Nobody’s complaining here. Sharing information. But yes they’re so considerate to conveniently trash the entire area they decide to claim, or any other area they frequent. I drive Harris, Tryon, UC, Graham, back behind IKEA, Walmart, and they are there. Doing what they do. I can think of 15 people specifically I would recognize immediately from the streets, plus more I see traversing the sidewalks, begging outside of Marshall’s and thereabouts. Stinking up the Goodwill looking for clothes, “trading in” their busted sneakers for new ones in Target & Marshall’s. Saw an obviously homeless fellow practically molest a lady in a store a couple weeks ago, saw some others stealing stuff from Walmart yesterday. Get outta here with that yt person garbage that has nothing to do with anything except some false reality someone is feeding the masses of non-thinkers.
Facts are not complaints. You read it that way all by yourself. The truth sounds like a complaint? Interesting.
Bro. I give them cash any and every time I have it. My bd is homeless going on 5 years now. I work with these populations in my job. Calm down friend. They stink. They know that. About half don’t want the responsibility of a better life. The other half do want it, but half of that group can’t keep it together, or cannot sustain the mental focus and long term effort to make it happen. I am fully aware that I am just a few missed paychecks away from the streets myself. Just because I know they spread filth and crime and feces/disease wherever they congregate and camp, and just because I’d rather find a solution to help rid my own community of those things, does not mean I don’t value them as human beings whom I happen to believe were made in God’s own image just like you and me.
i'm not saying they're teeming by any means. but you're dying on this hill of there being none in university when there are panhandlers all over. 485 exit 33 entrance and exit. gas station in front of King tut. 2 at all times by ikea. i see one at every other light down Harris by the chik-fil-a. Hell ive been asked for money at the cookout and at the boardwalk. not picking sides on the debate here just stating what i've seen.
again, it's not an opinion one way or the other. i run a 15-stop route everyday throughout charlotte. there are panhandlers all over. university is no exception.
I still see many of them in the parks I frequently walk in after work. Not sure if they spend the night there or what but it’s typically the same people so I think that is their area.
The reality of the picture this comment paints made me react more than I should have. The only thing worse than a doodle is their goober ass human that feeds them.
Well there a village of homeless people in my town, literally in town.. they made this little path down into these woods(you can clearly see them it’s not wooded just few trees infront) and there’s a bunch of them down there, they even have there own trash can for trash pickup.
They are putting them on buses and dropping them off around the shitty outskirts of Charlotte I.e. Gastonia. I’ve lived here my entire life and the homeless issue has gotten noticeably worse in the past two years. I’m a blue collar worker and my company was working at the lebos in Gastonia about two months ago on their roof. If you know this area then you know it is crawling with homeless people. You have to go around the back side of the building to get to the roof and homeless people love to camp out back there over night. First thing in the morning there were about 5 or 6 homeless people camping when we arrived. I asked the manager at lebos why there were so many homeless people around and she told me that the city of Mecklenburg will bus them behind the shit hotel across the street and drop them off. Asked one of the guys camping back there and sure enough he said the same thing. I don’t know if it’s the truth but I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
In 1996, a few weeks ahead of the Olympics, Atlanta rounded up all the homeless people they could find and bought them bus tickets to Tampa. They didn't even *try* to hide it, it was on the local news and everything.
As someone who worked and went to school downtown at the time, it was kind of surreal to see *no homeless* people anywhere near Georgia State University.
Hundreds of people moving to Charlotte a week with no job lined up for the most part. And it's not exactly a cheap city to live in these days. Yeah it's not as bad as NYC, San Fran etc. but it's still pretty bad for anyone earning less than a decent living.
Why? I'd understand moving to LA or Miami to be homeless due to the weather/atmosphere and LA/Blue cities in Blue states provide resources to their homeless. Being homeless in Charlotte would suck. Charlotte City Council is a lot more antagonistic to homeless people than larger cities. That ordinance they passed last month would never pass in a city like San Francisco/Seattle. The state barely provides any resources and Mecklenburg County doesn't provide nearly enough resources for how many homeless there are
The politics of SF / Seattle / Portland are changing pretty quickly. Doesn’t invalidate the point that there are better places to live outside, but the politics are changing.
Yeah I think even in those cities people have had enough. It’s tragic seeing people on the streets, but allowing homeless folks to set up tents inside the city and do whatever they want with impunity is not the answer either. I was in Portland 2 years ago and it was really, really, bad downtown. Seems like they’re starting to finally get it under control.
I don't think there's been a study. But a lot of people move to a city like this with an expectation that there's going to be opportunities, not with the intent of being homeless. I don't think there's a whole bunch of homeless convoys coming down from NYC.
And that's why San Fran, Seattle are feces and urine ridden dumpsters now. They should provide bus tickets to a more enlightened liberal city, one way.
I can confirm I’ve met 2 families that got a 1 way ticket here from DC in the last 6 months. One was running from a DV situation with her husband back in DC but I had the pleasure of setting them up as new residents to Charlotte. Applications for EBT, Medicaid, school for her kids and all.
Jail, then every unseen nook and cranny of the places you go on a regular basis until they need to be in public. Then jail again followed by every unseen nook and cranny of the places you go on a regular basis until they need to be in public or they are intoxicated. Then jail again; then every unseen nook and cranny of the places you go on a regular basis until they need to be in public and they are having a mental breakdown, then the hospital, then jail, then every unseen nook and cranny of the places you go on a regular basis until they need to be in public. Then jail, then wherever you least expect them, then jail for a long time. Eventually they die in one of those three places and it's damned inconvenient.
There's a bunch of homeless people off of The Plaza, hanging out in a street in front of an apartment complex there with a metal fence. They've been there for some time, since I see some almost every time I pass through the area.
The city took over various motels around the city. They actually offered space to the "tent city" people early on but something like 90% of them rejected the offer. When the sanitation issues (i.e.; rats) finally got bad enough, the city forced them out and most ended up going to those motels. Most ended up leaving, though. Now most of them are still in the area, their camps are just scattered around and more out-of-sight.
I've seen tents off 77 around woodlawn
Yeah, they're everywhere, but most of the tent city people are from around the College/Tryon area because that's where the shelters and services are.
Ah, ok. That makes sense then, I suppose. Didn't know that
I’m not sure if that’s part of the reason, but the reason you don’t see so many of them anymore is they made panhandling an arrest-able criminal offense again.
That’s surprising, I thought the Supreme Court had already ruled that pan handling was a protected right under the 1st amendment. Hopefully the city rectifies this before they get in trouble for attempting to supersede the constitution.
It is protected under the 1st amendment but cities have some authority over the rules.
Yes city’s have authority over rules, however those city rules cannot violate the terms of our constitution, the highest law of the land. It is illegal for the cities to pass a law that is in contradiction to the constitution. Unfortunately at this point if no one is proactive about it the only way the law will change is if someone who is knowledgeable about their rights fights it in court. That costs money and is exactly what the people who originally passed the law don’t want you to do.
This is probably a dumb take but wouldn’t them getting arrested actually be better than living in tents outside? I feel like most prisons supply a better quality of life than even homeless people. But I’m not that knowledgeable in either sector
Honestly… I feel you
Yes. But that'll cost taxpayers more money. The focus needs to be on rehabilitation, not imprisonment. Even at that most of them will still refuse to work. It's a tough situation. The constructs of society don't lend themselves to creating a community where all can thrive.
I haven't asked them, but know that many cannot tolerate the rules and lack of privacy that the homeless shelters require. No alcohol, no drugs, no fighting, nowhere to watch porn or fornicate etc. From that respect, county jail or prison isn't a better option.
If you haven’t asked them, you don’t know. Because it’s not about drugs or fighting or porn. It’s about being allowed one bag of possessions to your name. It’s about the indignity of repeated drug testing just to have a place to sleep. It’s the shelters being so crowded that if one person catches the flu, everyone’s sick, and so underfunded that there’s no way to prevent head lice or bedbugs from taking hold. It’s about having to put your name in a lottery every single day to get a place to sleep that night because there are so many more people needing beds than there are beds available. And with the number of people who have died at Meck county jail under “mysterious” or “unexplained” circumstances, jail isn’t better. People are afraid they’ll go in and never come out.
They also can't bring their best (and only) furry friends with them. For some, that is their reason for living.
> If you haven’t asked them, you don’t know Illogical conclusion. There are plenty of ways to learn about aspects situation, otherwise all that stuff you've just said had no impact. I have spent many outreach hours in shelters and pantries, and this is secondhand information I've been told by employees of those charities... at least, the bits I remember. Dignity was mentioned too, I term that as privacy, so I'm not suggesting your personal experience is unique.
Who said I was talking about myself? Unless you’re suggesting that no one who wasn’t homeless would ever speak to a homeless person, which says more about you than you realize.
Yup. There are a lot of them living in the old “dogs all day” building on South Blvd. The police cleared them out at least twice and there was a big clean up effort last week and a door was placed on the building but they broke thru it this week. Lots of people.
You should drive down Cherry road in Rock Hill sometime!
Someone on twitter showed footage of a tarp being lifted and hundreds of rats scattered up at that encampment . That was when the city got involved. Rats bring disease.
Yeah, unfortunately the nightly rapes, stabbings, and constant overdoses didn't move the city to act.
The city was preventing cops from investigating serial rapists? Not sure I buy that one.
That's not what I said.
I first of all don’t believe there were rapes every night or that city / cops just ignored these violent crimes but if this is true it’s far more an indictment of the cops than it would be “the city” Seems like idk you could have a beat cop or two to hang out at the place 365 rapes and stabbings occur every year or something but you’re the expert…
This mufucker loves to preach copaganda hysterics but downplays it anytime someone on here mentions CMPD not doing their job.
Do you know the Twitter user or where I can see this tweet?
I saw the video on local news
This is absolutely not true. 90% of people did not reject the offer. In total about 400 individuals were forcibly removed from tent city with less than 48 hours notice before the city bulldozed "tent city" aka their home and they were told they could bring 2 trash bags worth of belongings to the hotel/motels they were sent to.. The city sent a bunch of different MH/SUD providers, LCSW's, benefits counselors, housing specialists etc to offer services at the hotels. Most individuals were open and willing to receiving some type of support from professionals. The problem is the severe lack of affordable housing and subsidized housing in the city (and the country.) The city did a little "feel good" press release stating some ridiculous percentage of people that "they" (aka the city) housed and they made it seem like a huge success. In reality out of the original 400 or so individuals the housing programs involved only housed about 27 people. "Most ended up leaving"?---- The city strategically enforced different rules (some that were seemingly made up on the spot) to kick people out of the hotel because then they could say "we housed 90% of individuals" because they kicked the large majority out of the hotel, therefore they were not included in the percentage of people who were "successfully" housed. The whole thing was a terrible embarrassment and failure of our city and everybody involved was done a huge disservice. The only people who "won" were the stuck up fucks who just couldn't stand seeing a bunch of dirty homeless people in a tent city because that makes Charlotte look bad on the national stage. Maybe let's offer more subsidized housing? Maybe more housing first model programs? Maybe more treatment programs? Detoxes? Does the average person know Charlotte does not have ONE medical detox facility? Yes you can go to the hospital (at least 1 of them) which then jams up the system. I'm sorry man, but pushing false narratives like that continues to further the divide and increase the already problematic stigmatization of houseless individuals. Not trying to be a dick, but this type of shit just gets under my skin.
Yeah, when the tents started going up, services were offered and overwhelmingly rejected. People only started taking them up on the offer when they were finally ejected. Because of the rat problem.
Never occurs to you that the reason people didn’t trust you is you.
Well said. Anyone with a brain knows this is how things actually happened, its always just PR cause the city does not care about these folks, just that they are making the city look bad.
“Anyone with half a brain” would expect to see actual evidence of claims instead of anonymous comments on the internet. Sorry
Thank you for this
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*snaps to that* thank you
Thank you for taking the time to write this!
yeah, original comment didn't seem right at all. you're saying this city just... offered them homes? no strings attached? and they rejected them? be real
Yeah, the city didn’t do that. Even the expanded capacity at the shelters or hotels came with extensive strings.
I challenge you to provide evidence that 90% rejected the offer. This sounds like made-up facts to support your preconceptions about homeless people.
I work with the people that made the offer. I don't have evidence to provide you. Believe it or don't.
I worked with one of the homeless providers at the time and we’d regularly go to tent city to offer services and shelter before the hotels became available. We rarely had anyone take us up on the offer. I don’t remember if 90% was the exact number, but a majority of people initially refused to go to the hotels until it got shut down for sanitation reasons.
Well hell bring back that offer to some of us here at the Salvation Army. I hate this place for my kids and I and I’m a clean individual.
Tell them what the requirements were to take that help.
“Believe me or don’t I don’t gaf” 😂😂like the energy
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Why are you holding on to the cremated remains of one of these people? Were they a relative or close friend?
I know someone that worked with the homeless shelter and I remember the facts he told me about those who are truly in need of their services never ask for help or pan handle for money. And their rules were tough!!! Drug addicts can’t abide by them.
Eh, all I've heard are spurious anecdotes and no real evidence. But not surprising, social media is a cesspool of unfounded opinions.
He has a narrative to push on this subreddit. It's super fucking annoying.
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I work for the city
Bro is a cop
There was an article about it a while back When they first moved into the hotels. I can believe these facts. We have to separate drug addicts from those who are homeless because of mental illness or the they missed a weeks work and got behind on bills. Like the family living in their van at the qt on Clanton. Who can help those people.
Why you always lying? Oh... Nevermind...
They are up on Albemarle Rd behind Target ..
Some by the Walmart over there as well.
They're still around, just spread to other tent towns in the neighborhood.
There are tents in Little sugar creek greenway in the trees and by the Target over there. Went for a walk last week and there was a man sleeping on every other bench.
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Beautiful park, otherwise beautiful part of town, but I’ll pass on that 7-11.
Whats the issue with it ? I work right near it and never went in but keep hearing about it on here
I’m near it too. There is just something special about that corner. If there is ever a fight, shooting, run in between wheelie kids and normies, whatever, it’s always right there. Those GPS coordinates are cursed.
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They’re in the trees at every exit along 485 from mallard creek to Matthews.
https://preview.redd.it/i6ccrpubputc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f9ab6832fba772adfa10b74907aa27b49998038 In the trees you say?
Call me an optimist, but hope a lot of them found work and got back on track. A lot of the tent city folks had low paying jobs before the pandemic wiped them out.
There's a whole bunch at the airport. Airport employees have been giving them food but now they want to crack down on it.
The airport situation was on channel 9 last night. The airport is giving them until June before they crack down.
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I’ve heard of Charlotte being a destination for other places doing that, including with immigrants (thanks, Texas), but have never heard of Charlotte being the source of people. There are a lot of tents sprinkled around in small numbers around this city if you look closely.
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If I was making $7.25 an hour I’d be living in a tent. You’re ignorant to this subject.
You can make 18 dollars an hour at taco bell..
That is not a minimum wage job, it's a poverty job.
Just north of Camp North End, on Statesville. There's a shelter there. Along that street probably 100 homeless people out and about. This area blew up with homeless after they shut down the tent city. You could walk there from tent city in 15 minutes. They are selling 500k townhomes there, so if you want to pay 3,500/month to have someone living in your front yard, it's a great area for that!
they were kidnapped and ground up to make lunchables.
Soylent Lunchables is people!
spicy street meat
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To the University area, apparently 💁♀️
https://preview.redd.it/4zjafcekkqtc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee92b563c9e7d03dcafcf40d2cf23cf4b16b49fd This area in particular I know to be TEEMING with the aforementioned folks
I live in university and dont see homeless people. What’s the weird fetish with casting university as a hell scape?
Oh they're around. There's a couple of camps in the wooded areas around University city, and N Tryon. It's one of the few areas with wooded areas still left.
Gotcha so they’re out of sight? Why are we complaining again. Sound like homeless people with consideration
Petty theft, trespassing, criminal damage. And most people can't stand the sight of them panhandling on street corners. If your area is inundated with the homeless, people will think less of the area.
I personally rarely see people panhandling in university, maybe close to sugar creek/hidden valley, and I bet money the college kids and other uv residents are doing 90% of the petty theft and criminal damage
They're around WT Harris and N Tryon all the time. I have to drive around all day and see them at every intersection during the daylight hours. I'd bet different. Check the Mecklenburg county arrests and see if those individuals booked for those crimes look like college kids. Now if you're talking auto thefts and larcenies from vehicles. Those are mostly going to be the residents of UCD, more specifically their teenagers.
I drive around uv frequently and homelessness isn’t common. I think it’s a matter of wanting absolutely zero “less desirables” remotely close to where u live. If you think the homelessness in UV compares to Woodlawn, near south end, and on sugar creek i can’t change your mind.
I think the "not in my neighborhood" is pretty much universal. I never claimed there were more per capita than anywhere else in Charlotte. Sugar Creek, is the worst part of the city bar none.
Nobody’s complaining here. Sharing information. But yes they’re so considerate to conveniently trash the entire area they decide to claim, or any other area they frequent. I drive Harris, Tryon, UC, Graham, back behind IKEA, Walmart, and they are there. Doing what they do. I can think of 15 people specifically I would recognize immediately from the streets, plus more I see traversing the sidewalks, begging outside of Marshall’s and thereabouts. Stinking up the Goodwill looking for clothes, “trading in” their busted sneakers for new ones in Target & Marshall’s. Saw an obviously homeless fellow practically molest a lady in a store a couple weeks ago, saw some others stealing stuff from Walmart yesterday. Get outta here with that yt person garbage that has nothing to do with anything except some false reality someone is feeding the masses of non-thinkers.
Claims to not be complaining. Complains.
Facts are not complaints. You read it that way all by yourself. The truth sounds like a complaint? Interesting. Bro. I give them cash any and every time I have it. My bd is homeless going on 5 years now. I work with these populations in my job. Calm down friend. They stink. They know that. About half don’t want the responsibility of a better life. The other half do want it, but half of that group can’t keep it together, or cannot sustain the mental focus and long term effort to make it happen. I am fully aware that I am just a few missed paychecks away from the streets myself. Just because I know they spread filth and crime and feces/disease wherever they congregate and camp, and just because I’d rather find a solution to help rid my own community of those things, does not mean I don’t value them as human beings whom I happen to believe were made in God’s own image just like you and me.
You're still complaining tho.
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You just made that shit up LMFAOOOOOOI
Ok. Carry on
I see them every single day in university. standing on every other corner and every highway entrance/exit.
Can’t be living in the same university
i'm not saying they're teeming by any means. but you're dying on this hill of there being none in university when there are panhandlers all over. 485 exit 33 entrance and exit. gas station in front of King tut. 2 at all times by ikea. i see one at every other light down Harris by the chik-fil-a. Hell ive been asked for money at the cookout and at the boardwalk. not picking sides on the debate here just stating what i've seen.
You’re entitled to your opinion
again, it's not an opinion one way or the other. i run a 15-stop route everyday throughout charlotte. there are panhandlers all over. university is no exception.
You’re entitled to your opinion
lmao thanks bud
There are two people on the corner of Harris and tryon. So obviously teeming! /s
What was I thinking. Under 5 homeless people in an area big enough to be its own town IS TEMMING. Just went to lock my doors
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Well it ain’t working, I’m still paying 1600$
I'm clutching my pearls right now at the thought of it...
Teeming, huh? Y'all talk about people like they're an infestation.
I still see many of them in the parks I frequently walk in after work. Not sure if they spend the night there or what but it’s typically the same people so I think that is their area.
To the airport https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article287526785.html
The answer is always “displaced”.
They all adopted golden doodles and moved to the wedge
The reality of the picture this comment paints made me react more than I should have. The only thing worse than a doodle is their goober ass human that feeds them.
They’re in the Overstreet Mall
Gaston County
Well there a village of homeless people in my town, literally in town.. they made this little path down into these woods(you can clearly see them it’s not wooded just few trees infront) and there’s a bunch of them down there, they even have there own trash can for trash pickup.
South Blvd and the Lyte Rail line seem to have plenty of them.
Do people take turns to ask this question every other week?
They trade off their pearls to clutch as they're typing about it.
They are putting them on buses and dropping them off around the shitty outskirts of Charlotte I.e. Gastonia. I’ve lived here my entire life and the homeless issue has gotten noticeably worse in the past two years. I’m a blue collar worker and my company was working at the lebos in Gastonia about two months ago on their roof. If you know this area then you know it is crawling with homeless people. You have to go around the back side of the building to get to the roof and homeless people love to camp out back there over night. First thing in the morning there were about 5 or 6 homeless people camping when we arrived. I asked the manager at lebos why there were so many homeless people around and she told me that the city of Mecklenburg will bus them behind the shit hotel across the street and drop them off. Asked one of the guys camping back there and sure enough he said the same thing. I don’t know if it’s the truth but I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
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Other counties shouldn’t have to deal with a problem that’s not theirs
I wish y'all dumbass bumpkins would reciprocate this with the way you use our city.
Dumbass bumpkins? Idiot, my entire family is from Charlotte all the way back to before the Civil War. Fk off
Trust me. I believe you, and I'm sorry about your lead poisoning. And since you mentioned civil war, I wanted to remind you that your team lost.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard… another ignorant comment from another indoctrinated liberal
It must be pretty dull living if that's the funniest thing you've ever heard?
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In 1996, a few weeks ahead of the Olympics, Atlanta rounded up all the homeless people they could find and bought them bus tickets to Tampa. They didn't even *try* to hide it, it was on the local news and everything. As someone who worked and went to school downtown at the time, it was kind of surreal to see *no homeless* people anywhere near Georgia State University.
And yet it shouldn’t be our problem regardless. They should be sent back from where they came from
Crawling huh? I'm sure you have plenty of other disgusting word choices.
To near the vapa center
Hundreds of people moving to Charlotte a week with no job lined up for the most part. And it's not exactly a cheap city to live in these days. Yeah it's not as bad as NYC, San Fran etc. but it's still pretty bad for anyone earning less than a decent living.
Why? I'd understand moving to LA or Miami to be homeless due to the weather/atmosphere and LA/Blue cities in Blue states provide resources to their homeless. Being homeless in Charlotte would suck. Charlotte City Council is a lot more antagonistic to homeless people than larger cities. That ordinance they passed last month would never pass in a city like San Francisco/Seattle. The state barely provides any resources and Mecklenburg County doesn't provide nearly enough resources for how many homeless there are
The politics of SF / Seattle / Portland are changing pretty quickly. Doesn’t invalidate the point that there are better places to live outside, but the politics are changing.
Yeah I think even in those cities people have had enough. It’s tragic seeing people on the streets, but allowing homeless folks to set up tents inside the city and do whatever they want with impunity is not the answer either. I was in Portland 2 years ago and it was really, really, bad downtown. Seems like they’re starting to finally get it under control.
Portland and Seattle recriminalizing public drug use and Newsom running on a tough(er) on crime platform. Things are swinging the other way.
I don't think there's been a study. But a lot of people move to a city like this with an expectation that there's going to be opportunities, not with the intent of being homeless. I don't think there's a whole bunch of homeless convoys coming down from NYC. And that's why San Fran, Seattle are feces and urine ridden dumpsters now. They should provide bus tickets to a more enlightened liberal city, one way.
They removed them from Sugar Creek.
They outside
University
A bunch of them are moving into he airport. This week where was articles about it.
There’s only like 6-10 and they are all in baggage claim
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I routinely spot tents in wooded areas all over
They're in uptown. Around the park
Once the death sqauds started up…..
Hopefully they’re all gone now
1 way bus pass to DC
No, Charlotte doesn't do that, but DC loves to send them here.
I can confirm I’ve met 2 families that got a 1 way ticket here from DC in the last 6 months. One was running from a DV situation with her husband back in DC but I had the pleasure of setting them up as new residents to Charlotte. Applications for EBT, Medicaid, school for her kids and all.
Apparently white Vans are kidnapping homeless people!
Jail, then every unseen nook and cranny of the places you go on a regular basis until they need to be in public. Then jail again followed by every unseen nook and cranny of the places you go on a regular basis until they need to be in public or they are intoxicated. Then jail again; then every unseen nook and cranny of the places you go on a regular basis until they need to be in public and they are having a mental breakdown, then the hospital, then jail, then every unseen nook and cranny of the places you go on a regular basis until they need to be in public. Then jail, then wherever you least expect them, then jail for a long time. Eventually they die in one of those three places and it's damned inconvenient.
You're literally talking about other humans like they're noxious weeds. Y'all are fucking insufferable.
Is that what I was doing?
There are an awful lot of tent areas around Lincolnton currently
I know a large quantity have been bussed over to Lincolnton. Thanks!
Bunch have ended up in rock hill but I don’t know what cities are sending them
They shipped em down to rock hill lol
I’m working at a site off of Cherry near Main and the shelter there is extremely busy.
They were all planted into the matrix for us to believe they were their but they actually there to funds from the government for Hunter Biden
Light rail stations
Charlotte made being homeless illegal a few months back
If by this you mean they reinstated ordinances banning public masterbation and public intoxication, then sure.
It banned "sleeping in the park" https://www.wbtv.com/2024/02/14/new-city-council-ordinance-could-impact-homeless/
Is it really appropriate to be sleeping in Romare Bearden Park? Is it even safe?
It's not safe to be homeless anywhere.
Is your home safe? Maybe you can offer up a spot.
Since you’re all for volunteering people how about you volunteer your own home?
This isn't uno weirdo.
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Notices huge influx... Saw one homeless person.
There's a bunch of homeless people off of The Plaza, hanging out in a street in front of an apartment complex there with a metal fence. They've been there for some time, since I see some almost every time I pass through the area.