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Sinsra t1_jea21od wrote

Honest question, where exactly are they planning to send the evicted people? An Opioid addiction isn't just something you can throw on the street. These people need help! Maybe the state needs to start actually looking at mental health and making better opportunities for people to get the help they need!!! So landlords like this don't have to just throw them out on the street! We already have a homelessness problem, and the current plan will continue to perpetuate it!

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Historical-Run-1511 t1_jea2wvn wrote

I think all most folks are saying is that low barrier housing for former prisoners maybe shouldn't be in a building for the elderly and disabled that doesn't seem so outlandish/nimby-ish. It's just a bad combination.

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Greenlettertam t1_jeaoibp wrote

You got a point. Perhaps more halfway houses are needed?

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Historical-Run-1511 t1_jeaqxp2 wrote

Maybe, and/or just felon-friendly housing that's not sprinkled among the elderly/disabled. I love it when people succeed when they get out but it doesn't always break that way and when that happens a bunch of frail elderly neighbors in a giant building is just not optimal.

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Sinsra t1_jeaunj4 wrote

You're not wrong! It's absolute garbage that the state doesn't have nice places for our elderly and disabled to live that won't completely bankrupt their families. the places that do exist for those who are low income and elderly or low income and disabled are just like this all over this state. It's not just a BHA issue it's a vermont issue.

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random_vermonter t1_jeafb1q wrote

Great points but they don’t fit the “doom and gloom” narrative over this subject.

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Sinsra t1_jeaus6y wrote

welp - I live in enough doom and gloom internally - Maybe I don't want to think like that on the outside. :|

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random_vermonter t1_jeawhdg wrote

Yeah it’s more of an indictment of the vibe of this place.

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StankyBo OP t1_jebjtgb wrote

Sounds like the vibe of that building too. Unless that what you were talking about 😑

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StankyBo OP t1_jebl2nr wrote

I mean it's not opioid addicts that need evicting, it's the opioid dealers, no? From a tenants rights perspective that should be the minimum expected. Get the dealers out, the addicts won't come and it at least solves the issue of the other tenants being shrugged at by the city saying, "whelp, nothin we can do about it." Who's more important to protect here, the drug dealers or the elderly and disabled?

Side note: If a jail was ever built for anything, it's for murderers. Murderers often include fentanyl and heroin dealers, whether or not they were standing next to the person when it happened.

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d-cent t1_jeb3o8y wrote

Bingo. Until we finally redo federal health care, there is not much we can do. Instead of having proper health care, we are forcing the mentally ill and addicts on to other poor people

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