A Major Concern?

Stay tuned for the news coming up where Richard Cloutier will have another word of the day, contest word for warm-up to winter at about 4.45. A little bit more on the homelessness problem and also are you going to vote? 780-6868.

We'll take your phone calls on this now.

I did get a couple of texts here that I want to touch on.

John at 780-6868 says, a couple of things, Jim, if you don't vote, don't complain.

And also, I believe the people in Alberta voting for separation, to me, that's treason when you're trying to break up the country.

I appreciate that, John.

Yes, they're going to the polls in less than a week now to vote on that.

I find it, being an Albertan myself, ridiculous.

The Albertans I know, family, friends, everything like that, think it's ridiculous.

I'm interested to see what the fallout would that be.

Um, but yeah, I, I've been doing this with you for a couple of weeks now.

And I say, are you going to vote? I've had some people vote in and said, no, I don't usually vote.

I don't bother.

And maybe I will.

I, that's how I grew up, right? If you don't vote, you can't complain about the way things are.

I know people think it doesn't make a difference, but if everybody thinks that, that thinks that, that's why we have less than, you know, sometimes just over 30%, less than 30% voter turnout, which is really bizarre to me.

Lauren A has given us a couple of things and I find this fascinating, right? The Houston one is the second one she sent in and I, you know, Mayor Gillingham went down to Houston and, But she's given me a couple pointers on other places that deal with homelessness.

By pooling resources in a single collaborative system called The Way Home in Houston.

And we've had Mayor Gillingham on to talk about this because he did go down to Houston to learn more about it.

It reduced homelessness population by over 60%.

They bypassed bureaucratic red tape to place over 30,000 individuals directly in their apartments.

paired with intensive case management.

This seems to be part of the way, right? The individual case management.

One more that Lauren A. sent is Helsinki, Finland, the gold standard.

Finland is the only country in Europe where homelessness has steadily plummeted.