{"id":1795,"date":"2014-12-04T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2014-12-04T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T03:00:28","slug":"mobile-showers-for-homeless-cheaper-than-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/mobile-showers-for-homeless-cheaper-than-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Showers for Homeless–Cheaper Than Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOTE BY NORSE:\u00a0 Santa Barbara and its neighbor Goleta are several (token) steps ahead of Santa Cruz.\u00a0\u00a0 Santa Barbara has had a Safe Parking program on government lots for some time. Goleta now weighs in with a shower program.\u00a0 On the downside, activist and poet Peter Marin reports (http:\/\/radiolibre.org\/brb\/brb141123.mp3<\/a> 1 hour, 11 minutes into the audio file) Santa Barbara is following Santa Cruz’s bad example in passing anti-homeless (e.g. anti-sitting) laws on its main tourist thoroughfaire State Street.
\nSanta Cruz, meanwhile has stacked its Pacific Avenue with gun-toting cops, uniformed First Alarm “security” thugs, and “happy” Hosts adding phony public safety hysteria to its usual “clean ’em out for Xmas” program.\u00a0 City homeless haters are\u00a0 now planning to arm these “Get Movin’!” mannequins with further with “no conviction needed” stay-away powers on December 9th<\/span><\/span> at City Council.\u00a0 (See “Stay-Away Stupidity Not on Tuesday’s<\/span><\/span> 11-25 Council Agenda<\/strong>” at https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2014\/11\/24\/18764553.php<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 No doubt, the hope is to intimidate homeless people out of town, but it’s likely only to increase jail and policing costs ).
\nHey, what with drenching rain and dropping temperatures, who needs additional showers and shelter.\u00a0 There’s no plan on deck other than the usual well-intentioned pleas of a few activists to provide regular warming centers.<\/p>\n

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Goleta Council Approves Pilot Program to Provide Mobile Shower for Homeless<\/h1>\n

By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer |\u00a0@JECMolina<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Published on 12.02.2014 6:49 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Homeless people will have a place to take a shower under a pilot program offered by the\u00a0City of Goleta<\/a>\u00a0and an advocacy group.<\/p>\n

In partnership with the group\u00a0HEAL (Hope, Empowerment & Love)<\/a>, Goleta will provide space outside the\u00a0\u00a0Goleta\u00a0Valley Community Center<\/a>\u00a0for a mobile shower for the homeless.<\/p>\n

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The shower facilities will be located inside a trailer, a two-room unit, that has a shower, stall, sink and toilet.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The trailer is self-contained with its own water tank, heater, wastewater holding tank and air conditioner.<\/p>\n

The Goleta City Council voted 5-0 on Tuesday<\/span><\/span> to approve the project.<\/p>\n

“I think it is a fabulous idea,” new Goleta\u00a0Mayor Paula Perotte<\/a>\u00a0said. “I really believe it is the right thing to do. I can’t even imagine going days and days without a shower.”<\/p>\n

Showers for the homeless people would be limited to about five minutes.<\/p>\n

Initially, the mobile shower would be open one day per month, over a three-month period, beginning Dec. 29<\/span><\/span>. The trailer would be parked in a rear parking lot of the community center, just north of the tennis courts.<\/p>\n

The project would be a pilot program for three months, but eventually HEAL activists want to have the trailer visit regular sites, including St. Michael’s University Church and St. Mark’s Catholic Church, both in Isla Vista.<\/p>\n

The hours would be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/span><\/span>, and homeless people would have to make an appointment to use the facilities.<\/p>\n

HEAL activists said they do not tolerate intoxicated individuals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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