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r@ Jason, right, you think ikea was being raided by the homeless? It was being raided by middle-class whites looking for a small freebie..
Your Bloomburg post has absolutely no facts at all..My post is nothing but statistics..sorry, Jason, you are one down, in your interpretation of realilty.
And this anti-science mantra that just because it is an…[Read more]

Yeah, you are probably right, Craig..I can’t do what you suggested, obviously, but I think water is probably (here in Fresno) a better thing to pass out..One guy I know gives out sun screen – they really need it!
but as for giving each one you encounter nothing, that I disagree with..If it was you standing out there, that one sandwich may be the…[Read more]

“It is the first quarter of positive growth. With this index, a score of 50 is neutral, no growth, no loss. So, there is .2 points growth. Great. Losses had been slowing over the past months, but then it picked up again. Hopefully, this is the start of higher billings, but given the track record of this index, it is likely just a blip and lo…[Read more]

I agree with you both Craig and Leslie. If communities invest in large projects like this without taking care of the real issue the original investment is usually lost or devalued due to vandalism anyway. If people don’t feel safe, they won’t go anyway.
I am not sure what a place like Vancouver should do…but there is some sort of breakdown…[Read more]

Amen to the comment on stadiums. My town has a privately funded “action” group (actually a big trust left by an industrialist now in the hands of a former mayor) that just decides what it thinks would be a great idea and pushes it forward with little input from anyone, and whoosh!, the local government always goes along with the plans because each…[Read more]

It’s up to us to prove to the clients and to them that we can do it better. Thin line though.

My husband I saw this very clearly in Vancouver, B.C. where they literally were moving them out towards the industrial parts of town while taking low income housing and turning them into very expensive condos. It made it very hard to enjoy the high class, beautifully designed parts of town when I knew that there were hundreds of people on the…[Read more]

With the site section of the ARE, they have a kind of built-in CAD function specific for that question. Say, for grading, they have contours there, you have to slide them around and make a proper swale and terminated them correctly. I, however, am sad to see the hand-drawn part of the exam go, and I would be fine with just one section of it that…[Read more]

Simple: the homeless does not pay taxes or vote…well, most of them and this being a huge reason they are ignored. Cities don’t think long term solutions and just close down areas where homeless accumulate. They then go to another part of city and the process starts all over.

Jordan,
While there are valid arguments on both sides, but I can’t think of any good reason to start designs, any design, on a computer. Maybe this is the reason for an over abundance of cookie cutter designs seen today. Those younger people you refer to are usually getting drawn up designs on paper to place in Cad. Also, there’s no way they can…[Read more]

Have to laugh at the wine…that is Biblical! haha.
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish;
Very christian of you Trace!

Jason,
I responded to some of your past statements regarding the homeless…questioning your belief that the homeless choose to do so…because being homeless is great, right! Oh goodie! Men being beaten to death by teenagers, women raped, children sleeping in boxes…I mean who wouldn’t choose such a great lifestyle. I am not going to go into my…[Read more]

Wow, this almost makes me wish I didn’t already know Sketchup! LOL. Seriously, Daniel is a great teacher, and if you don’t have much experience with the software, this would be a fantastic opportunity. Hope it goes well Daniel.

You quote a politicians program passed in the face of rising homelessness..Check out the comment section of  your pasted article, and you will see a different perspective..Like one guy says, the world is not flat..It is a complex problem, with complex solutions – there are many reasons for homelessness..
I come from a much more “there but for the…[Read more]

and as Henry says below, the Veterans comprise a significant portion of the homeless…..I met many viet nam vets living on the streets of Brooklyn in the eighties, warped by their drug use during the war..Used to play Frisbee Golf with one of them, he would appear from the shrubberies of Prospect Park, ready for a game..

Jason, you can choose your television channels, but not your own facts.
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/index.html
 
I sure wouldn’t want to be one of the 1.3 million homeless children and run into your “nasty brutish and short’ view of human existence.
But more to the point, I don’t believe the statistics bear your survival of the fittest pe…[Read more]

The only really current reference I can offer on this is coverage given (link below) to the gradual development of an urban walking greenway loop where one segment involved an area with a homeless camp. I don’t think there is any “federal legislation” that gives such campers some kind of squatter’s rights to halt a facility for other people from…[Read more]

Here’s another example: http://www.grist.org/infrastructure/2011-07-20-when-design-kills-the-criminalization-of-walking
 

Where’s the discussion about homeless landscape architects who have been destroyed by this putrid economy?  Even a ‘rising’ LA student better have a backup plan for finding a job in this industry a few years from now.