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Homeless Housing Celebrated In Marina

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There sure are a lot of Megan’s Law entries in the area. Be careful if you visit.

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A short distance from the VTC offices at Martinez Hall on former Fort Ord Army Base land in Marina, Lightfighter Village, at 229 Hayes Circle, provides 71 permanent rental homes for individuals earning between 30% and 50% of the area median income, with a special focus on those who have experienced homelessness.

“I don’t know of another organization that’s so interwoven throughout the county with veterans and homeless … they’re everywhere, and Kurt Schake, the current executive director, has been just amazing,” said Marina Mayor Bruce Delgado.

Homeless Housing Celebrated In Marina

Bumfights!

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Rec trail still a dangerous place to be at night.

The Monterey Police Department announced that David Thomas, 65, was booked into jail with a bail set at $1 million.

The Monterey Police responded last week to a report of a man being attacked and severely injured near Reeside Avenue and the Recreation Trail. The person reporting the incident was a passerby who the victim had flagged down for help police said. The victim said a man with a crowbar or similar weapon attacked him.

Thomas was also previously arrested in November for felony assault with a deadly weapon after he struck a person who was experiencing homelessness with an expandable metal baton. The victim in that incident was not seriously injured. A witness reported the November incident and said Thomas claimed the victim was drinking alcohol in public. Thomas said he was acting in self-defense after the victim called him a racial slur. Ultimately, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor and was sentenced to 40 days in jail and a year of probation.

Bumfights!

Project Homekey Defaults On Government Loans

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Remember when Homekey tried to seize the Monarch Resort? Glad P.G. never got mixed up with that.

So the state gives money to developers to convert motels to housing. The housing is built for the ‘homeless’. If the homeless cannot afford California’s high rents, who pays the rent? Then where do all the newly arrived ‘homeless’ people go since they heard there are free homes in California?

 

The state attorney general Monday took legal action against Southern California developer Shangri-La Industries for alleged violations related to seven homeless housing projects in the state — including four in Monterey County. The lawsuit also names as defendants Salinas and King City, which had agreements with the company to convert motels into permanent housing for the indigent, Between 2020 and 2022, Los Angeles for-profit developer Shangri-La received more than $114 million in state funds from the Department of Housing and Community Development — as part of the agency’s Project Homekey program.

Project Homekey Defaults On Government Loans

Park In Parker’s Park?

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Not many van dwellers willing to take up offer. Why? Because there are rules? Because it’s easier to park on city streets?

$150,000 spent. Six people served. Tax and spend.

According to a report to the county Health and Human Services committee, a total of six participants have signed up so far for the program, including its access to case management services aimed at providing links to jobs and housing. But none had actually parked at the site as of last week

Park In Parker’s Park?

Freeloader Sheltering Not Going To Cannery Row

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Problem is that the bums already disregard responsibility by living their chosen lifestyle. Maintaining any home requires responsibility. Attracting more bums will kill the golden egg laying goose.

Prior to Tuesday’s meeting, commercial parcels in the Lighthouse/Foam/Cannery Row area and all of Monterey’s Oak Grove neighborhood and parts of Casanova Oak Knoll, Del Monte, Del Monte Beach and Villa Del Monte neighborhoods were under consideration.

 

Public comment on Tuesday also centered on excluding the R3 district with one Laguna Grande resident noting the heavy impact that area is already experiencing from the homeless.

Glenwood neighborhood representative Lee Whitney said residents there were also putting out fires — both figuratively and literally — from the homeless population.

Comments like these came amid other comments about the Peninsula’s overall homeless epidemic and warnings to city officials that housing is but one ingredient to a real solution.

Freeloader Sheltering Not Going To Cannery Row

Bums Get To Stay In Monterey’s Best Areas

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Yall voted for the people that enact these laws, enjoy what you get.

the city has no choice but to designate such a district soon in order to be in compliance with Senate Bill 2. The bill mandates that a city’s zoning encourages and facilitates emergency shelters and limits their denial.

The last time Monterey resident Elaine MacDonald lived near a homeless services program she said she witnessed loitering, received some unwelcome gawking and often found drug paraphernalia in her front yard. It was enough to make the single mother stay inside and keep her children there, too.

Areas now in consideration for the overlay include commercial parcels in the Lighthouse/Foam/Cannery Row area, general parcels downtown along Tyler and Washington Streets and to Lake El Estero, as well as above City Hall and additional areas along Del Monte Avenue, Cass Street and Munras Avenue. All of Monterey’s Oak Grove neighborhood and parts of Casanova Oak Knoll, Del Monte, Del Monte Beach and Villa Del Monte neighborhoods are also under consideration, as are the industrial zoning areas of Garden Road, Ryan Ranch and along Highway 68.

Bums Get To Stay In Monterey’s Best Areas

Pacific Grove Tries To Attract Homeless With Free Parking

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I say they should be allowed to sleep in Parklets overnight too.

The Pacific Grove City Council on Wednesday moved closer to creating a city ordinance allowing homeless people to sleep in their cars at church parking lots and other approved locations.

The city has been “visionary” in its approach to homelessness, said Tia Sukin, founder and director of One Starfish Safe Parking and Supportive Services, which will run the project.

“They’ve also been very aggressive in making sure this gets on their agenda. That’s really nice to see, trying to help people,” she said.

Under the program, homeless people with vehicles will be screened before they are approved to sleep in a designated church or other parking lot.

Pacific Grove Tries To Attract Homeless With Free Parking

No Laws Against Living In Cars?

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Transients are OK in P.G. as long as they have money to spend at the motels.

Last week, a 31-year-old Los Angeles city law aimed at preventing homeless persons from using parked vehicles as living quarters was ruled unconstitutional by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Pacific Grove City Council last August voted 4-3 to prohibit living or sleeping in vehicles parked on public property. The decision came over protests by advocates for the homeless, but Police Chief Vicki Myers said it would give officers more latitude in contacting people in need of services.

Laredo said Pacific Grove’s law is different in several ways from the L.A. law, and the appeals court ruling “may strike it down or it may not.”

Monterey City Attorney Christine Davi said she was looking at the appeals court ruling to see if it would affect Monterey’s ban on overnight parking in certain areas. The city last year, amid a debate over homeless in the community, considered expanding the parking ban to other commercial areas.

No Laws Against Living In Cars?

Pacific Grove Sets Money Aside For Homeless

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Will it be like Monterey’s program that spent the money on more cops and bus tickets to elsewhere?

A report prepared by Fischer and Cuneo said a 2013 count estimated about 1,240 homeless people on the Peninsula, including 350 women and several hundred elderly people.

“Many of these people are capable of working their way back into being productive members of society if given some assistance,”

Last year, the Monterey City Council set aside $40,000 for homeless services, but the fund was tapped in October to provide $20,000 to pay for increased police patrols downtown and on Fisherman’s Wharf. The Monterey council previously agreed to spend $1,500 to buy bus passes for homeless people needing transportation.

Pacific Grove Sets Money Aside For Homeless

Homeless Living In Cars Not Welcome In P.G.

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The city can’t collect transient occupancy tax on a van dweller. Send them to Monterey instead. In the words of MoeAmmar “It’s the greatest thing to ever happen”.

“It came up with little fanfare, but I think people who advocate for the homeless got wind of it,” Mayor Bill Kampe said Thursday. The mayor and Councilmen Robert Huitt and Ken Cuneo cast dissenting votes.

About 10 people testified against the vehicle-sleeping ban, which Police Chief Vicki Myers said would give officers more latitude in contacting people in need of services.

“They didn’t want us hassling people in cars who are down and out … but this is exactly what the chief argued — to let people know about all the programs and to put them in the right direction,” Councilman Daniel Miller said.

The move came as the city of Monterey has been wrestling with homeless issues, and is exploring creating overnight parking spots for people living in vehicles.

Homeless Living In Cars Not Welcome In P.G.