Why is it ridiculous?
Here: http://www.ktvu.com/homeless/fremont-resident-on-hunger-stri...
[..]Sun said he’s not against a homeless navigation center. He doesn't care where it's built. He does care who has a say and feels it should be up to the voters.
It’s his first hunger strike over the city’s first-ever homeless navigation center. He said it should be a ballot initiative for the voters to decide and not city leaders.
“Only position I take is the decision making,” said Sun. “I believe this decision is so critical for Fremont.”
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Sacramento is holding Bay Area cities hostage. The citizens pay for all of this.
Are you saying people shouldn’t get a say on how their cities are run?
It costs the city 4 more million and approximately 45% of the 2 million grant money is for administrative costs. It only serves 45 homeless people for six months(a bed and one meal a day and counseling) and grant money comes with strings that the city has to take in 45 people from other cities in alameda county.
That means 45 out of 608 homeless headcount in Fremont will get the ‘service’ of being directed to homeless services. Is that a good use of 2.4 million grant money? You can build a permanent group homes housing 50-60 people for the same amount in another part of CA that isn’t crazy expensive Bay Area.
Better uses for the grant money.