Urbannizer Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 cdczxczxc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Right, of course. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 I don't know where Urbannizer finds all this stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Such as..? Not sure what a PHP is specifically, but here's a list of a few dozen places that people can start looking for help. http://www.shelterlistings.org/city/houston-tx.html At some point in dealing with severe cases, people have to be physically restrained, forced to take medication, and/or isolated from the substances they abuse to live peacefully among other people. We can always be more accommodating with more funding, but where do you draw the line? No easy answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 I assume it's also illegal to loiter at a convenience store, since they are required to have a "No Loitering" sign up.They could be arrested for trespassing if they refused to leave their property, but the public sidewalk is fair game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astros148 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 A php is a partial healthcare program that people with mental illness go to during the day time. This is for patients that do not have a immediate danger to society but need help on a daily basis. The phps have to have licensed therapists and psycratist that have goals and plan of actions for each patient. A person who typically recieves disability usually lives in a personal care home or group home. In these facilities the php sends a van each day to pick up the qualified patients to bring them to the facility. This eliminates the need for transportation to be provided as medicare does not provide payment for transportation. Also the house manager or whoever ensures that each patient is recieves their medicines and all food is supplied as well. If something happens with the patient that is urgent they notify the php.I work with numerous phps and am a partner in a clinic that does "home visits" to these facilitys so I'm well aware of what the process is. There is help out there for people who really need it. The issue is that after paying a potion of your disability to the group home you do not have enough money to buy alcohol and drugs so some street people would rather not go to these places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaggieMay Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 So, I was hoping to see some information on Main Street Improvements. Instead, it's yet another screed on Those Dreadful Panhandlers. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chi-Char-Hou-Dal Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Watching and participating in this forum over the course of a couple years, it's funny because the same people seem to have the same points in many different forums.I want to see a 4 Team Cage Match.TEAM 1 - The Homeless Homies - led by Drifter McNally caked in sewer residue the smell is their biggest weapon. They rounded up a fierce crew of transients and ask for change and harrass people around the ring.TEAM 2 - Ric Campo and his development team. They have joined forces with the folks that are behind the Houston Center that can't seem to get going. They are the underdog in this fight.TEAM 3 - The HAIF Ground floor retail champions. They want and need GFR in every building in Houston and won't stop until it's done. They are a passionate group.TEAM 4 - The homeless haters, they are scared for their lives anytime someone talks to them or asks them for money. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Watching and participating in this forum over the course of a couple years, it's funny because the same people seem to have the same points in many different forums.I want to see a 4 Team Cage Match.TEAM 1 - The Homeless Homies - led by Drifter McNally caked in sewer residue the smell is their biggest weapon. They rounded up a fierce crew of transients and ask for change and harrass people around the ring.TEAM 2 - Ric Campo and his development team. They have joined forces with the folks that are behind the Houston Center that can't seem to get going. They are the underdog in this fight.TEAM 3 - The HAIF Ground floor retail champions. They want and need GFR in every building in Houston and won't stop until it's done. They are a passionate group.TEAM 4 - The homeless haters, they are scared for their lives anytime someone talks to them or asks them for money.Team 5: Tge ones who get to sit back with some popcorn and watch the fight. Who's the real winner here? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Team 5: Tge ones who get to sit back with some popcorn and watch the fight. Who's the real winner here? Popcorn companies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Watching and participating in this forum over the course of a couple years, it's funny because the same people seem to have the same points in many different forums. I want to see a 4 Team Cage Match. TEAM 1 - The Homeless Homies - led by Drifter McNally caked in sewer residue the smell is their biggest weapon. They rounded up a fierce crew of transients and ask for change and harrass people around the ring. TEAM 2 - Ric Campo and his development team. They have joined forces with the folks that are behind the Houston Center that can't seem to get going. They are the underdog in this fight. TEAM 3 - The HAIF Ground floor retail champions. They want and need GFR in every building in Houston and won't stop until it's done. They are a passionate group. TEAM 4 - The homeless haters, they are scared for their lives anytime someone talks to them or asks them for money. TEAM 5 - bigfootsocks TEAM 6 - The gift mongers - the one's that cannot wait to come in and add the all important / obligatory to our posting heroes... because well... this is what we do...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiteJab Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 As a business owner here on Main Street... I think the #1 priority of getting folks downtown is finding a solution to the homeless folks wandering around... The other day while having a nice dinner at Moonshiners one of these guys just walks right in and drinks from a patrons soda and walks right back out. My customers are also being ridiculed by these guys and have been approached by some prostitutes..... This is a daily scene on Main Street: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Living downtown for seven years, I've never been approached by a prostitute. 95% of the panhandler paranoia is overblown. The other 5% can be handled by enforcing existing laws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiteJab Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Living downtown for seven years, I've never been approached by a prostitute. 95% of the panhandler paranoia is overblown. The other 5% can be handled by enforcing existing laws. Well I'm on Main Street and I've personally witnessed a prostitute approach a young man...As for the panhandlers - It's pretty bad, well at least on this part of DT it is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 This is what I mean by overblown... people getting paranoid about someone asking for money. Simply tell them no and keep walking, the vast majority leave it at that. The 5% is the type of thing you're referring to, like stealing sodas and harassing people on patios. There's laws against that, and the police enforce when they can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiteJab Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Asking for money is one thing yes... But taking leaks in public, prostitutes and forgot to mention one dude pulled a box opener on one of my employees at a rail stop here a few months ago is another.. It's also common to see some of these guys taking showers down at the Prarie/Preston street side fountains.... If people are overblowing it they may have a valid concern from what we've experienced here on Main. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Again, we are talking about completely different things. Public urination is a crime that can be enforced on, panhandling is free speech that cannot. You can't just go down and clear out all the panhandlers. People can only be enforced on when they're actually breaking laws. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 As a business owner here on Main Street... I think the #1 priority of getting folks downtown is finding a solution to the homeless folks wandering around... The other day while having a nice dinner at Moonshiners one of these guys just walks right in and drinks from a patrons soda and walks right back out. My customers are also being ridiculed by these guys and have been approached by some prostitutes..... This is a daily scene on Main Street: Hmm. I have been approached by prosti's in Montrose, a pimp in Hermann Park, and another pimp at a Chevron on the east side of town (practically Channelview), but never Downtown. Maybe I'm not trying hard enough? All jokes aside, I agree with you that harassment while trying to enjoy food/drink on a patio is really annoying. Usually the restaurant/bar/hotel staff just tell them to move along. I don't mind them asking if I'm walking on the street but it's just rude to interrupt a conversation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astros148 Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Another downtown owner who agrees with me. There are serious issues 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigereye Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Living downtown for seven years, I've never been approached by a prostitute. 95% of the panhandler paranoia is overblown. The other 5% can be handled by enforcing existing laws.Agreed.Worked Downtown for last 5 years, lived in Midtown and now East End. Commute is walk/train for the last 5 years. I plan on moving Downtown next as I enjoy walking to work and don't feel threatened at all walking around Downtown. In fact, I'd view living Downtown as most convenient for me. In addition to work, I spend much of my personal time Downtown frequenting bars/restaurants/theaters/parks. Have encountered some homeless or wannabe gangsta types, but never a pimp or prostitute. The homeless problem is evident but IMO, it seems mostly confined to the 1100 block of Main (Northbound) in front of the Sakowitz. At Crackhead Central people are openly using drugs of all assortment or pissing on the Sakowitz at any hour. Police try to clean up the area but usually once a day around lunch time. But If the cops arrive to clean up, they drive their damn cruiser on the sidewalks, further complicating matters. And horseback patrol craps on the bike lane which doesn't help the smell.I've said it before and I still believe that when that side of Main shuts down for reconstruction and the Sakowitz comes down, all this construction activity will drive them away. Dallas St reconstruction already pushes them further in on the block. If I had to guess, they'd move down Main to the 1400 block by the Chase daycare. They seemed to like the water fountains there (unless those get yanked with Main St redevelopment)Tranquility Park is also a haven for the Homeless population but that could change depending on how it's redeveloped in the Theater District plan. Overall, I'd say the homeless paranoia is overblown. Ive been hassled more at the Leon's Lounge patio by homeless looking for cigarettes than any place Downtown. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astros148 Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Why do you have to push them away? Instead of spending millions tax incentives for housing for big corporation, is it too much to ask for maybe built some more shelter for them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moore713 Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 The problem is only a minority are actually down on there luck..most of the people you see have mental issues, are drug dealer gang members, or just disengage from humanity 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 The problem is only a minority are actually down on there luck..most of the people you see have mental issues, are drug dealer gang members, or just disengage from humanity It's compassionate to want to help folks in a bad situation whether it is of their own fault or not, but some people are beyond help short of incarceration. Also as you point out, at some point, the efforts to help those in a truly bad situation attract people that don't need the help but will take it to subsidize their other bad habits. No easy answers, but a permanent patrol from Sakowitz down to the $0.99 Store seems like a good use of tax money to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 art_blocks_presentation.pdf 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 ^^^ oh HELLS to the NO! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moore713 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I dint like the over head view till I saw it from first person, it growing on me..I wish they had gone a little bolder with the art form the 1 dollar store front (to safe to conservative )The one that caught my attention is the swartz building, they seem to be saying some sort of video screen (think Chicago ) which will project people faces as they pass by....intresting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 It's interesting. I too would have liked something bolder, maybe some more geometric lines, but it's nice they're doing something different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 This is going to be amazing! I can't wait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietstorm Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I like the proposal to have retail and food carts...something that is lacking in DT (due to restrictions). NY and Chicago come to mind in having street vendors that add to the street life and pedestrian experience. It also makes sense to start small on Main and perhaps scale up to Market Square, Dallas St, Discovery Green and Greenstreet if the idea gains traction. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Art Blocks at Main Street Square Coming This Spring The 900-1100 blocks of Main Street are about to liven up with monumental art installations that will remain for at least a year, beginning in March.You can help create one of them. Patrick Renner, the artist whose popular but temporary "Funnel Tunnel" recently filled an esplanade on Montrose Boulevard, will create a more vertical piece -- "Trumpet Flower" -- that swoops down to create a canopy in a nook between One City Centre and its parking lot. Renner works with re-purposed wood strips and will enlist the community to help him paint them before they're assembled into his public sculptures. The public painting party for "Trumpet Flower" is noon-4 p.m. Jan. 30 at Market Square Park. Renner's installation is just one of the Downtown District's Art Blocks at Main Street Square project. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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