Topic #4 - turning Corpus Christi into San Francisco
In open Council session on 3.21.2023, Sylvia Campos proposed: "This program, of course its not in Texas, its in California...and it seemed to work, is giving applicants...$500 dollars [per month] and they'd be the ones to go and find the apartment, you know, the place to live." Council discussion was regarding solutions to our local "homeless" issue.
Watch for yourself, the original city-archived video, starting about the 04:28:00 mark, via
https://corpuschristi.granicus.com/player/clip/1745?view_id=2&redirect=true.
This might be considered delusional, to believe California's homeless solution has "seemed to work." In the real world, when word got around TX that Corpus Christi was handing out $500 cash monthly direct to homeless; combine this with the fact that every felon released from TX prison gets a $100 GateCheck and bus voucher (TXcode501.015b.) Our current levels of addict-on-addict crime would skyrocket; an even greater flood of non-Corpus addicts would bus here; aggressive panhandling of our female tourists and elderly dog-walkers would soar past its current, already-too-high rate. Such extreme suggestions completely undermine City efforts to support our shelter-based organizations.
Watch for yourself, the original city-archived video, starting about the 04:28:00 mark, via
https://corpuschristi.granicus.com/player/clip/1745?view_id=2&redirect=true.
This might be considered delusional, to believe California's homeless solution has "seemed to work." In the real world, when word got around TX that Corpus Christi was handing out $500 cash monthly direct to homeless; combine this with the fact that every felon released from TX prison gets a $100 GateCheck and bus voucher (TXcode501.015b.) Our current levels of addict-on-addict crime would skyrocket; an even greater flood of non-Corpus addicts would bus here; aggressive panhandling of our female tourists and elderly dog-walkers would soar past its current, already-too-high rate. Such extreme suggestions completely undermine City efforts to support our shelter-based organizations.