homeless clients

Okay, thats great and there's nothing wrong with charging someone $90/month if they can afford it, but what happens to those who can't afford it? Granted, $90 a month is a helluva deal for most folks; the closest thing Nashville has is the Salvation Army and they're running $70 a week - but your first night there is free - oh boy!

Well, we'll see if this'll stop the more egregious cases of dumping but believe it when I tell you that our own hospitals here in Nashville send folks packing all the time who could certainly use some time recovering in their units before being discharged back onto the streets.

Indeed.

And it's only getting worse....

DIFFERENCE MAKER: 'Face of homelessness has changed so much' By JOHN CARLSON
jcarlson@muncie.gannett.com

Just the kind of news homeless housing advocates need to hear....

To be sure, it is a real risk moving people from the street directly into a home like this.

SERVICE WORKERS: I encourage you to familiarize yourself with this service as it is going to be very important to our Homeless clients....

Nashville's burbs and outlying towns are witnessing an influx of Homeless into their communities, and this is partly the result of the recent but heavy crackdown on quality of life citations being given with vigor by Metro police to just about any Homeless person who deviates from "normally acceptable behaviors" in the downtown area.

Oh yeah, that will work. Of course, the onus is on the individual to prove they are poor enough to receive an exemption.

What are these moronic public administrators thinking? Many of the folks who need health care coverage the most will never even see any info on this "individual mandate," and even if they did, do administrators honestly think that they'll give two squirts about filing for an exemption?

Sigh.

A disturbing trend seems to be increasing among the homeless population here in Nashville: homeless on homeless crime. While it is no secret that violence is a fact of life for many folks who are homeless, I have