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Does Columbia have enough resources for homeless people?

Does Columbia have enough resources for homeless people?

Yes

11

No

5

Yes

6 Comments
Monica Luetkemeyer
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Monica Luetkemeyer

Columbia has the resources; the homeless do not want to play by the rules in homeless shelters.

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Will Mason
3
Will Mason

More resources attract more homeless. Just ask San Fransisco. More resources = more homeless.

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Larry Longwell
1
Larry Longwell

They won't stay in the tax payer shelters, they should be cleaning up the grounds that they polluted. instead of tax payers paying for it. they will continue to break rules/laws as long as there's no consequences...

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Gbabysoul35 Cobbs
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Gbabysoul35 Cobbs

We have plenty of resources for homeless people is the thing is they need to use it the right way not the wrong way We need to get them off the streets because we are some of us are afraid at night and day if we get a little bit more resource source for them the house and work

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Toasty
0
Toasty

You can't help people who aren't willing to help themselves. Drugs, mental illness, etc are the problem, not enough 'free stuff' from the tax payer.

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No

5 Comments
Shamande Smith
1
Shamande Smith

I just realized that I lived in a town full of ostriches! I guess we didn't learn anything from California . So this is what's going to eventually happen from us letting this problem fester for decades. Drug and crime rate is going to go up exponentially not enough room in the local jail.

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Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

Make Narcan illegal. That would solve some of the problems.

Living Thelife
0
Living Thelife

Homelessness is more than just not having a place to live. Its a horrible feeling. Unless u've experienced it for urself, you'll never know ehat being homeless truly means

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Kari Utterback
0
Kari Utterback

Homelessness is a spectrum. We would have fewer unsheltered folks if we had more shelter beds and more affordable housing. There is literally no where for these folks to go right now, this week even. If requests to deliver a dumpster and handwashing stations, creek trash would have been a nonissue.

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Elizabeth Farnham
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Elizabeth Farnham

Because we don't have enough help for our homeless. Not every person living on the streets has a drug addiction. Many are families. The cost for rent in Columbia is outrageous!!! No wonder we have families living in the woods and under bridges! Better get it together Columbia!!!

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Music One
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Music One

I think we have a new mayor that doesn't like homeless people and wants to run them out of here. The reality of things are that if people would stop and think 90% of us are 1/2 checks from being there ourselves. Quit picking on the homeless and do something about the one's out there that want help.

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Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

Then you are not managing your money correctly.

Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

I've got an idea. Let's tax those, who work and strive to take care of themselves and their families, and give that tax money, to those who won't work.

Have you been directly impacted by this past weekend’s storms?

Have you been directly impacted by this past weekend’s storms?

Yes

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No

0

Yes

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Should Columbia city leaders consider tax increases to address projected budget deficits?

Should Columbia city leaders consider tax increases to address projected budget deficits?

Yes

5

No

5

Yes

2 Comments
Max DeYoung
2
Max DeYoung

That's how blue cities work, tax, tax, tax, and tax some more.

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Zaos Gonzolez
Zaos Gonzolez

Tax to the MAX. Tax till you drop, and it still don't stop!

Zaos Gonzolez
1
Zaos Gonzolez

I believe with all my heart that Columbia residents should donate their entire paychecks to the City. If the City had ALL of the money, it would solve ALL of the problems.

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No

5 Comments
Fat Guy Outdoors
1
Fat Guy Outdoors

This is what Columbia just voted in. Great job!!!!

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Debbie Neate
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Debbie Neate

They want to raise taxes because the “sales taxes are less than expected”. Could this be due to Columbia’s citizens not shopping downtown, etc. as they do not. Want to deal with addicts, vagrants and panhandlers. Lower revenues are due to administrators poor policies and other choices ie..plan fine

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Susanna Johnson Kettlewell
1
Susanna Johnson Kettlewell

Get rid of the unnecessary positions created the past 3 years! The answer is to reduce the size of government, NOT raise taxes! Columbia's sales tax rate is already too high. Continue letting crime and homelessness flourish, raise taxes, and people will leave the city,

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Allan German
1
Allan German

Why not cut the city official salaries by a few thousand dollars each to help make up some of the money that the city is looking for? But I doubt a single city official would be willing to do that even though most of them live better than the rest of the city.

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Zaos Gonzolez
Zaos Gonzolez

The recorder of deeds salary alone is over $96,000!!!!!!!!!!!! TRULY INSANE. Most of us can never even imagine that amount of money.

Will Mason
1
Will Mason

Not until after ALL avenues for budget cuts have been explored Taxes are too high already.

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Zaos Gonzolez
Zaos Gonzolez

If you are alive, there is no such thing as too many taxes. EVEN when you are unalive, you are taxed.

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