Homeless rousted

Re: Homeless rousted from Leon

My suggestion is that every man, woman, and child in Kelowna put in 600 dollars. That's approximately $60,000,000. 

This should be enough to build 400 units for these people to live. When 400 more people come here for free housing, we all put in 600 more, and when your 18 year old says "I'm moving out" into free housing, we can kick in more.

But everyone has to pay, no getting out of it. Already only about half the population pays 100 percent of the taxes. I believe that's why about half the responses to stories like these have people either fed up and want them kicked out of town, or they want "the government to pay to fix it". I think the problem is not enough people pay in in the first place. It makes it to easy to sit back and demand more when you don't contribute, but that's another issue. 

Let's put these people into housing for 6 months. This should be enough time for them to get a head start, then they can start paying in and be self sufficient. Once they move out we can sell the apartments and use the money for a tax break for those that kicked in. 

This is just a suggestion. I know it's not a very good one, but it's better that just saying it’s the cities responsibility. After all, we are the city.

Brad Airey