Redding California Refuses to Open a Warming Shelter for Her Least Fortunate

 

With Christmas just days gone by, you would thing Redding and Shasta County Supervisors would have more compassion for the homeless in our community. The Good News Rescue Mission, 3100 South Market Street, the only nighttime shelter we have is reportedly kicking out homeless seeking shelter for the most nominal of offenses. Several can be seen sleeping on the sidewalk in front of the mission.

Redding Homeless - Good News Rescue Mission

Those with mental issues, are forced to sleep outside, even though the temperatures have been below freezing for several days now, including homeless children. Dozens of homeless are forced to seek shelter under the roof of a very compassionate local business but really is that fair to them?

 A young little girl in a pink jacket is living in a freezing boulder field under Cypress Street with dozens of other homeless sufferings, yet even though the City of Redding has declared a Homeless Shelter Crisis, and received a million dollars, the refuse to put a large tent next to those languishing under this and other bridges seeking the only shelter they can find. 

Why it's perfectly natural that folks don't want to go to the Good News Rescue Mission. I know of several instances where homeless young boys have been molested there. Other reports of men masturbating. bed bugs, scabies, and other unpleasant behaviors seem to be the norm, not to mention thievery. Young boys at a certain age I understand are separated from their families and forced to stay with them.  

And of course the 30 days in 30 days out mission policy is tragic, since most folks point to the mission as the be all as far as homelessness is concerned in Shasta County... The only game in town.

Some time ago, I had a conversation with my next door neighbor, Deputy Sheriff Will Gardner ( at one time sex crime investigator), that I was concerned that a homeless child could be molested, and the pedophile could attend the Good News Rescue Mission's drug and alcohol program as part of his sentence, eating the finest donations of deli meats and cheeses, sitting on fine plump leather couches in air-conditioned comfort, while that homeless child is still in the bushes curled around a rock still homeless.

Deputy Sheriff Will Gardner stated " You dont have to worry about that scenario any longer.... Its already happened...

Fascinating that the City of Redding has also received as I understand 18 million dollars in Covid relief funds, that can certainly be used to give our least fortunate some kind of relief, is used to hire 3 more City of Redding employees and machinery to destroy homeless survival areas.

City of Redding clears brush and homeless camps near Benton Airpark

Just before Christmas.... And Bethel Church played a major role ...  

What more must the homeless endure with two murdered by young men with no motive at all?

And vigilantism on the rise   ?

And an attitude by Redding and Shasta County Officials that being homeless is still a crime 

Seems nobody wears masks at the Good News Rescue Mission, sadly several of the Mission staff have died from Covid 19 

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Redding IS Experiencing a Homeless Crisis !

Where Are Our Shasta County Christian Pastors and Preachers To Speak Out Against This??

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Past building , pole, and into street.

Little over a week since a homeless disabled woman was allegedly ran over by a City of Redding California garbage truck and no more than a hundred feet from where another incredible safety hazard was reported to the Redding California police department yesterday early morning and for almost an hour there was NO RESPONSE ! 

Now it cannot be over emphasized that this is on a corner and this person was in a very dark colored bag  clearly in the path of alleyway traffic, a gruesome horrible mangulation or death to be sure.

Not unlike what witness's to Tina's death described as what looked like a knife right down the middle opening her up. Could she have been murdered then put out into the direct path of traffic in hope of somebody or something running her over covering their nefarious deeds? An unheard of third murder of a homeless soul here in Shasta County?

Please feel free to leave flowers, balloons and other love offerings for Tina's Memorial corner of Outwest Furniture behind Der Wienerschnitzel  

Quite a spiritual battle brewing in theses parts, as rumor has it that Redding Mayor and Bethel church connected Erin Resner is purchasing the Outwest Furniture store where outside Tina was allegedly  murdered and a beautiful memorial has been constructed.

   

Yet right across the street is a little Christian church doing exactly the Lords will serving what the world sees  as the "Least of the Brethren" filling their physical as well as spiritual needs.

I believe we have a tragic homeless problem, and by police pushing our homeless from downtown to surrounding neighborhoods and greenbelts is no solution at all.

Alleyway Outwest furniture

City of Redding officials MUST declare a homeless crisis here, free up the necessary funds, and prevent deaths like Tina's, and those in the future, even if Redding police will not..

 

Redding California Hospitals Dumping Homeless Like Garbage

 

Redding Homeless Patient Dumping 

I have only seen Tina once some time ago, crawling pathetically down the sidewalk, homeless , paralyzed...

Tina, you may have read about, was ghastly ran over by a City of Redding garbage truck. Howells dive shop has a security camera pointing at the point of gruesome impact.

Witnesses have stated that a hospital dropped her off in that area and she had to crawl all the way down that alley to try to get some rest ....Handicapped .... Only to be horrifically crushed to death in the duels of several tons of garbage remover.

Her little memorial of remembrance was ruined by online homeless haters, bits of her balloons scattered about, her little stuffed dolly destroyed....

*UPDATE* 11/8/2021 Beautiful Hand Made Memorial for Tina Killed In Alleyway Signed By Friends and Loved Ones Probably By Church Members Rebuilt

#Redding #California #Homeless Death Please Feel Free To Leave Flowers Balloons and Other Love Offerings For Tina's #Memorial Corner Of Outback Furniture Behind Der Wienerschnitzel @damonarthur_RS @BreakingNews_RShttps://t.co/rUiKHRooOt #Christian #Bethel #Church #Ministry pic.twitter.com/5RW1nTJE1t

— Redding Homeless (@ReddingHomeless) November 8, 2021

 

 

Now I will be the first to say Redding garbage truck drivers are truly professionals, daily driving an obstacle course of discarded human flesh, often dangerously hidden.

You again may remember another unfortunate soul named Marcus, his hospital bag still on his wheelchair, disabled, dumped off in the parking lot of Safeway.

Of course the Good News Rescue Mission cannot accommodate those homeless who are disabled to the point of others having to take care of her basic hygiene needs, which kind, loving souls in the area often did. One year alone the Good News Rescue Mission turned away 500 people as reported by Record Searchlight reporter Katie Gillespie !

I personally remember another case of a Redding hospital patient dumping as this poor soul too had to crawl to the comfort and shelter of the Eureka way overpass from Redding Medical Center. Take a look at his ankles when I found him starving.

Here he is later praising Jesus 

The City of Redding MUST declare a homeless  crisis, free the necessary funds, and save lives...Like Tina's...

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Inside The Redding California Homeless Crisis

Several articles have come out recently about our local homeless crisis featuring the investigative reporting skills of independent journalist Evelyn Nieves. You can hear and read her interview here at  What Redding's Response to Homelessness Says About a Statewide Crisis at the San Francisco Public Press.

“This population has always existed, what hasn’t existed was the kind of street homelessness we see now. Why is that? Money...Stories about homelessness never bring up the fact that federal funding has dropped.”

Evelyn Nieves has covered homelessness extensively and has been reporting in depth on Redding’ response to homelessness, and how it parallels trends around the region and the state. Redding Coalition for the Homeless director Chris Solberg had the pleasure of meeting Evelyn and spending much of the day with her and the local homeless population at the Shasta County library. “There is a dynamic of hatred,” said Solberg, who has posted scores of videos on YouTube documenting the city’s responses, from police encounters with homeless people to the caging of park benches.You can read her most recent in depth article here, Redding’s Homeless Ride a Wave of Very Tough Love."  California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls homelessness an emergency akin to a major earthquake, but his proposals do not prevent cities from sweeping people off the streets."

"Security guards would kick them off the library lawn at dusk. South City Park next door, once a refuge, sat behind iron gates. So did the alcoves of the businesses across the street. Even the tunnel under a nearby road, a creepy crawl space that always offered a last resort, was cut off: An elaborate metal barrier, almost sculptural, criss-crossed its length, blocking access."

“There is a dynamic of hatred.”https://t.co/gxRGhHhnrG

— Capital & Main (@capitalandmain) February 6, 2020

“We’re treated like scum” said Tani Kelley 44-year-old mother of two She lost her housing to a series of misfortunes she said including the 2018 wildfires that ravaged Shasta and neighboring Trinity counties “No one,” Kelley said, “wants to be out here” https://t.co/92ePM8NJi0

— Redding Homeless (@ReddingHomeless) February 5, 2020

Redding’s homeless ride a wave of very tough love https://t.co/ROrkwDP80J

— Daily Kos (@dailykos) February 7, 2020

A humanitarian crisis is occurring in Redding California -- KRCR News Channel 7 refuses story

A humanitarian crisis is occurring in Redding and when KRCR News Channel 7 reporter was told about it and was asked if they were aware of the situation and could they do a December human interest story on this situation the reporter responded, "Oh we are aware of the situation" and "we don't do those kind of stories"

Comforting im sure to the Parkview neighborhood facing the smile place park by the river next to Cypress street bridge.

You see a HUGE homeless tent city has filled that park with tents and make shift structures spilling right down into the river, One of them looks like a shanty house.

The numbers have grown to beyond the closure of South City park, as im sure more Carr fire and Camp fire victims find themselves mixing with a population that has been homeless here for quite sometime,

Why would Jennifer Scarborough and a reporter want to keep that in the dark?

The City of Chico and Butte County got 4.9 million each for declaring a homeless shelter emergency... Its that easy.... Redding and Shasta County could do the same...

But dont count on KRCR News Channel 7 to tell you that... Merry Christmas all.