What’s happening to Des Moines?
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Don't get me wrong, Austin was still a great time! Just know ahead of time you will see it pretty much everywhere in the downtown area.
Hear ya, in 2019 the ATX city officials tried to, in good faith I think, implement a hybrid homeless model of plans from Seattle/Portland/San Francisco. ATX officials thoughts they could do it better and were given an opportunity to test it out. It’s been two years and ATX officials are pretty much all opening admitting to it not working as intended with changes coming soon.
Sounds like the power players are on the same page and are currently working on figuring an alternative plan B very soon, so I don’t foresee it getting worse.
Covid hit downtown ATX hard and without all the festivals every other weekend, the downtown area is still super fun, but there’s definitely a presence of homeless campsites and closed down building fronts here and there.
I can't remember if I saw this on The Family Channel or Lifetime Movie Network. Really touching though.
That was our experience a few years ago when we went down to the ISU/UT game. We stayed downtown, a block from a homeless shelter. We took the advice of my daughter in law that graduated from UT. She said just keep walking and do not engage them in conversation, if they say something, answer but DO NOT stop. Just keep going. We asked her about giving them a few bucks and she said, "If you give one money, the rest will be all over you wanting their share also."
As we left on Sunday, it was raining, hitting the I-35 bridge, we saw what must have been 30 or 40 homeless sleeping under the bridge, trying to get out of the rain.
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This is what happens when you decimate mental health treatment in a state.
I always thought Des Moines is a ****-hole.
Solutions:
1. Legalize marijuana. That should help them deal with it.
2. Give millions to pakistan for gender studies instead of homeless programs here.
3. Force people to use the most expensive energy resources in order to conserve the environment while creating tent cities that destroy the environment.
4. Get rid of Churches actually helping and instead listen to rich elite people in Hollywood and in the media give podcasts discussing it.
5. Promote shows about nomad life as the new trend.
jimlad for those needing it.
I agree that the Q conspiracy theorists destroying churches has not helped anything...
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-03-03/la-na-church-qanon-conspiracy-theories
There is a shelter in Austin just north of the 6th Street that functions as a magnet for homeless. Same thing in KC just west of Veterans Auditorium.
well, my first time at Kinnick (and my last), I saw a guy piss on the side of it...which seemed completely fine considering that entire place and town smells like a urinal...
as for DSM, not sure it's any worse or better than it has been. Unfortunately, I've seen people take ***** in places other than bathrooms in the suburbs...off railroad tracks and bike trails...sometimes, people just gotta go???
as for DSM, not sure it's any worse or better than it has been. Unfortunately, I've seen people take ***** in places other than bathrooms in the suburbs...off railroad tracks and bike trails...sometimes, people just gotta go???
Not sure how those things are connected.
Java joes main issue as I understand it was that there aren't as many people downtown during the day as a result of COVID. Mews closed as a direct result of COVID.
The parking garage mess with mandelbaum is a complicated mess, but I don't think it did in Java joes.
Java joes main issue as I understand it was that there aren't as many people downtown during the day as a result of COVID. Mews closed as a direct result of COVID.
The parking garage mess with mandelbaum is a complicated mess, but I don't think it did in Java joes.
I think the tweet is saying why the **** is DSM pouring money in to parking garages that no one uses and letting long standing business in the same area go down.
Because that's not what happened.
The existing garage was falling apart. It needed to be replaced. As part of the replacement, a large tower was proposed on one side, and a theater on the other, which resulted in the garage size being increased.
This garage was also like 90% complete pre-covid, so it's not like they were choosing between the garage and assisting businesses hurt by the pandemic. Not that it would necessarily be a wise decision in this case anyway. We don't know when or even if downtown will ever return to the prior traffic patterns.
The tower and theater that never materialized. I’m saying the tweet is just noting the culmination of a terrible decision by the city to help an investor that wasn’t up to the task and now here we are with a parking garage and a couple DSM institutions shutting their doors. It’s frustration. It’s priorities. I get it’s not direct cause and effect.
