Earth nature field

Why Waynesville has a homeless crisis

Topics of general interest
Forum Member

Why Waynesville has a homeless crisis

Unread post by Forum Member »

For years and years Haywood County had very few homeless. In the county seat of Waynesville there was a mostly-respected soup kitchen in Frog Level that served the local homeless as any good town would have. For most regulars in Frog Level, they knew the local homeless even by name; and it was rare someone new showed up at the soup kitchen for very long. As recently as 2015 the exhaustive county-wide count of homeless was 28. That was right at the time Haywood Pathways was built in our community. From that point in time, our homeless population has increased to chronic levels. (On top of those housed at Pathways.) It is difficult for anyone to speak publicly about the police knowing and stating (mostly) off the record that the majority of homeless they interact today as problems are associated with Pathways. (Waiting to get in, not able to get in because they are drug users, or just heard about other homeless who are in and near Pathways that caused them to come to town to check it out. That in itself is starting to cause a need for a low barrier shelter - which Pathways and other organizations are exploring.) Anyone raising awareness of Pathway's role in this suffers threatening letters from the board of Pathways on legal letterhead (we have such an example) or are targeted by the local papers to tar and feather (so to speak) anyone who goes against the blight of our community. (Recall that Pathways was very promoted by The Mountaineer.) There are those in the community mostly associated with non-profit organizations and their support systems that appreciate Pathways and their desire to provide help to people in need at the expense of the community and taxpayer. (Some specific churches, meth clinics, organizations that even work within the Sheriff's office, etc.) There is even some thought that other Haywood small towns support the Pathways center because it's better if that exists "over there" and away from their towns.

So how did we come to this homeless problem being forced into our community? Following is one explanation where participants in Haywood County and Waynesville probably don't think much about the big picture. But that doesn't mean the big picture isn't there. There are certainty participants in Asheville and in support of Asheville from afar that cause Asheville to be noted on Fox News nationally as having a bad reputation for the Antifa/BLM kind of thing. There are certainly participants in Raleigh such as Down Home NC who have been active in Waynesville with harm reduction and the free needle program and at least in some way has endorsed or supported local candidates in elections. And there are certainly nationally recognized (Fox News) liberal actors from WNC with formal skills in forming coalitions and soliciting governmental financial support towards socialism causes disguised as a Homeless Task Force sponsored by Waynesville's very own Planning Director on the Waynesville Town payroll. So because you might not want to believe the little town of Waynesville has been targeted for change toward socialism, remember that Waynesville is the county seat and probably the next strategic area after Asheville falls. It would be a mistake to not recognize what has been happening until it's already happened.

Connect the dots.

First, the socialism movement created the Occupy Wall Street event in 2011. This was the first large-scale modern socialist protest that caused desired outcomes of disrupting and showing ability to effect change. Some nuggets around this are: (This was HOW they could force change)
"the movement would last 59 days but its ripple effects would last for years"
"then came...the encampment"
"spread to 82 countries in 2011"
"the occupy spirit was the launching pad for a new wave of left-wing activism in America"
"without clear demands of what they wanted"
https://youtu.be/rsUOFq1i_Ck

Second, the socialism movement became more structured and they developed a national strategy from the original Occupy Wall Street. They solved the problem about not having clear demand of what they wanted. Power. Some nuggets around this strategy from 2010 are: (This was defining what they wanted)
"This is about building and creating power"
"We have to create a crisis for them"
"They said we had no place to live!... If we don't have decent housing..."
https://youtu.be/KXFTsPADC0Y

Third, after the first Occupy movements were better "managed", it was a thing to institutionalize the power that occupiers cause: (This was making their power systemic)
"After 2 months the occupations (Occupy Wall Street) were leveled...what people figured out is how to move the protest into the neighborhoods..."
"evicting the occupations was the precipitant for expanding the movement..."
"high unemployment, high student debt, spells foreclosed opportunities..."
https://youtu.be/BtLsTROv-Bk

So back to the county seat of Haywood... There cannot be a socialism power base in Waynesville without those who would promote it. So the problem statement would be that unless/until we have enough occupiers in Waynesville, there is no hope to have the community realize there is a crisis and yield to any new socialism power base. How do we create a crisis for them (the community)? How do we build and create power in Waynesville? How do we occupy Waynesville?

It should be recognized that Pathways is the institutionalization of homelessness with the homeless population increasing since it existed. The more homeless that are in our community means the more crisis that is being created so says the Waynesville police if you ask them privately. Creating a larger low-income population with low-income housing developments significantly increases the population of people who will become part of the "create a crisis" leverage against the regular people of Waynesville. And the increasing drug use, drug availability, and drug dependency ensures we aren't going to rehabilitate or raise anyone out of the shelters and low-income class of people. Unless/Until we organize a counter strategy to fight off those staging a crisis for Waynesville, we will become Asheville -- while Asheville continues to evolve into San Francisco.

Pick a side. It's time.
Forum Member

Re: Why Waynesville has a homeless crisis

Unread post by Forum Member »

Even more sinister...

Local non-profits caused County Commissioners to develop an "affordable housing task force". That affordable housing task force was as "stacked" as the Homeless Task Force was. It's goal was to justify a position that Haywood needs more affordable (low income) housing. The problem is that the study was done by the government and supported by non-profits. And now the elected people are supporting a position that the government created -- not the voter.

viewtopic.php?p=235&sid=2c8635cbad84c75 ... b1c7d#p235
Post Reply