Redding Homeless Blog

At a recent city wide so called Safe City Project , with its leader April LaFrance , and interesting admonition was made, and Tweeted by a Redding Record Searchlight Reporter. With the Good News Rescue Mission being the ONLY nightime rescue mission shelter in all of Redding and Shasta County California this fact, if reported... this crucial Tweet... if turned into a news story would rally the generous and caring community Redding has become, and positive steps surely would be taken that would change the dynamics of homelessness in our community, and quite possibly SAVE LIVES . Not only that, If the facts and truth were released, to be ticketed by Redding Police Chief Robert Paoletti and his department for homeless sleeping now would be more than ever a very real violation of homeless persons civil and constitutional rights. A situation here in Redding already determined to be cruel and unusual punishment in other California cities  by a Judge for the United States Cour...

Its shocking that “Redding’s Good News Rescue Mission turned away 500 people last year.” Especially since City Council member has heard threats of baseball bats against homeless and their camps. Redding California city council person Missy McArthur receives messages from vigilantes wanting to go out into the homeless camps and send them a message with baseball bats. Im getting calls, emails, and on – the street comments about this No.1 issue. Things like : “Let’s take some bats and show transients we don’t want them here.” How does Redding California Police Chief Robert Paoletti respond ? Redding Police release map! Seems a police and city official created dynamic hardly conducive to the health, safety, and well being of our local homeless men and women, as well as the growing numbers of our homeless families, children, and veterans. And the worst part of all is other than a tweet from a so called ” SafeCity ” meeting by a relatively new reporter who momentarily ...

Shocking news from the Good News Rescue Mission, Redding and Shasta Counties ONLY night time homeless shelter. Reported at a recent town hall safety meeting in a Tweet by Record Searchlight / Redding .com News Reporter Katie Gillespie Good News Rescue Mission turned away 500 people last year due to staffing and resource shortages. #SafeRedding — Katie Gillespie (@KGillespie_RS) November 14, 2014 To be ticketed by Shasta County or Redding Police for homeless sleeping now seems more than ever a very real violation of homeless persons Civil and Constitutional rights 'They have no place': Rousted, relocated, Redding's homeless have few choices. "As the county's only shelter, the mission is scarcely equipped to handle its homeless population, said Community Relations Director Ken White. "We're feeling extraordinarily overwhelmed by the amount of services needed by people in the community," he said. "If the economy worsens, or even s...

Redding Mayor Rick Bosetti, Redding Police, and Record Searchlight Photographer at the take back the park event. Many caring and compassionate individuals feel that local media has been creating as of late a dynamic that have folks hating the people who are being oppressed in our community and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. The Redding Police Officers Association who wants the community to take back South City Park from the homeless and transients who use it daily and give it back to families, hosted  a daylong event Saturday that was marred by controversy, injury, and a lack of public attendance.     One must ask themselves, where do folks relieve themselves at this event, as the only public restroom was locked up tight and unusable for both event goers and homeless alike, a taste of what it is like in much of the downtown Redding area. Much has been spoken of in the Redding area of the sex trade, ...

  It should be of no surprise to the dozens of Redding California County and City workers that make their way to the downtown Yuba Street post office every work day that Redding has ranked so low as a city in regard to its people and their well being. I suppose one can easily turn their head and avoid the oozing stains of blatant disregard that mar the sidewalks, or avoid the looks of elderly homeless who have been beaten and rolled by juvenile homeless heroine addicts desperate for another fix. Unable to visually turn your head , a question not so easy to avoid as you approach the post office must assault your senses to be sure. Oooooh  that smell... With Record Searchlight bloggers writing about the halcyon days of the long gone McColl's Dairy or whimsical songs of what's to love of Redding, one must as a question. Can't you smell that smell? From winter days of years past our chronic downtown homeless suffer from frost bite...

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