Jackson Jambalaya

Wow! Whatta Party Last Night!

It actually portrays the actual culture of what happens inside the building.

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Suitcase in tow. Is the greyhound bus station operational?

I often hear about other cities sending their homeless to Jackson, and I believe there was even a photo that circulated of Ridgeland police dropping homeless individuals off in the City. I would be interested to see if train and bus ticket sales data reveals single repeat purchasers of 1-way tickets into Jackson. I’ve lived in the city since 5 years before our current administration took office. The difference in those 5 years compared to the last 7 is stark. The homeless activity has intensified at major intersections. There has always been a concentration around Union station. I first noticed the expansion at State St. and Fortification and High St and Greymont in and around the old Shoney’s. Those I attribute to people that start out at the Admiral Inn and the Red Roof Inn and move into homelessness as their resources run out. In more recent years, they’ve begun occupying Lakeland drive intersections and taking over interstate overpasses at Northside and Canton Mart, with that string of hotels playing a part. It has moved to County line now. In the past 4 years, activity along County Line Rd has dramatically increased. You frequently see individuals getting off city buses at County line and Ridgewood extension with what is likely the remainder of their worldly possessions in a suitcase or two. It’s clear they are in an unfamiliar place, and this new place is their home, like it or not.

In terms of single solutions, I suppose you could put them on buses to other places. Is that something you do by force? Jail isn’t much of a threat. That’s a hot shower and a meal. Do you incentivize them to leave with money/resources only to have them return for those same incentives? We can’t afford to house them, nor do I think it’s a good idea to provide resources that incentivize them to stay or others to come.

Regardless of the solution, it’s clear that the do-nothing approach that Lumumba is so fond of taking on issues for which he has no ideological or political interest has gotten us here. You could argue that the degradation of our city is actually a means to an end for the Lumumba administration.

Decline is a disease. There are plenty of challenges the City faces brought on by forces beyond the capacity of any administration, but it’s evident that poor leadership is like pouring gasoline on the fire. Our mayor and the people around him are perfectly fine letting it burn if they think they can derive some temporary benefit from it. When the fire gets too hot, they will just be on to the next place, leaving the folks who can’t leave or those who see something here worth fighting for to clean up the mess.

Is that the Mayor? He sure came to work early today!

You sure do like to shit on those much less fortunate.

Perception of “unhoused.”

@11:52-this is not the place to write a book.

The homeless are like stray cats you feed them and they stay around.

August 10, 2024 at 12:11 PM
They aren't "less fortunate" for choosing to do drugs and staying out of shelters (that have no drug policies by the way).

A bus ticket and two hundred dollars is very reasonable to cut down on the homeless in town. It costs much more than that to take care of homeless people if they stay. I've bought Greyhound tickets and have never ridden Greyhound. As long as they don't come back its money well spent. Most won't come back.

There are shelters for the homeless, and there used to be institutions for such hapless individuals; some state-run and others church-run. But, some choose to live on the streets, even though it is trespassing and vagrancy. The functional public pays taxes and contributes to charitable organizations in order to help the less fortunate while expecting to live in a safe and orderly society, where people behave by established norms. Allowing activities like this has ruined portions of our major cities, tolerates rampant drug use, and encourages pan-handling.

At first glance I thought it was breaking news about the Jackson 7....sigh.. news needs to catch up

The poor and homeless have always been among us. Statistically, homeless rates are down nationwide, and MS has one of the lowest homeless populations. As someone who has commuted to, or through, Jackson for about 25 years, it doesn't appear to me that the number of beggars at the interstate interchanges has increased or decreased substantially. While they make some people uncomfortable, I have not seem any of them cause a problem.

The point of the post was not to mock the residentially challenged person. It was to show how the city, with JPD across the street, can't even keep City Hall cleared of bums.

Did they put up the Caution warning for him or about him?

Well, God bless that person. Looking for somewhere safe, I suppose. But quite telling that they're on the Mair's front porch! I doubt it, but I hope, that a staff person brought it to his attention. Needs to be addressed in his little weekly fictional reports. The town that he is responsible for is rampant with wandering people. Private citizens are caring for and feeding them and other groups are cleaning up after them. He has FAILED on EVERY LEVEL. Has he no shame?

"Well, God bless that person. Looking for somewhere safe, I suppose. But quite telling that they're on the Mair's front porch! I doubt it, but I hope, that a staff person brought it to his attention. Needs to be addressed in his little weekly fictional reports. The town that he is responsible for is rampant with wandering people. Private citizens are caring for and feeding them and other groups are cleaning up after them. He has FAILED on EVERY LEVEL. Has he no shame?" August 12, 2024 at 3:51 PM

Actually, he's made the situation WORSE. By forcing landlords to adhere to new red tape, he's REDUCING the amount of affordable housing. One more time, I'll say quote that old saying: "The worst thing about substandard housing, is that there's not enough of it."