that was disrupted by jeering audience members who shouted shame on you at the council for even considering the idea. how are you guys tackling this problem when you float a proposal, there people who don t even want you to have a discussion about it? well, the beauty of our democracy, shannon. however, with this incident and his ordinance, what s called 4118, it was allowing the city council to set some rules and regulations on encampments where people can live, sit, or sleep on our city sidewalks based on a court order. but at the same time, that same ordinance is going to go back to committee and be able to get some resolution to it and i ve always said that you can be homeless and homeless being homeless is not a crime, but we do have to have some law in order in place ensuring that there is some order on our streets and it doesn t give you an opportunity to have a free-for-all if you are
city council has gone about it is by making it legal for the homeless to camp on city sidewalks in your city, you signed off on this, you think this will help the problem? well, i think it s real important to note first that it is a challenge in our city, we don t have the scale that la or san francisco has, we are trying to work to make sure we don t have that, so we took our ordinances and we made sure that we preserve for our law enforcement the right to ticket or to arrest anybody that was presenting a public safety risk, anybody that was presenting a public health hazard and we kept all things in place, the question is what do you do with the person who is homeless on the street not presenting a risk, not presenting hazard and our community said that those people need help and the best thing to do is not to arrest them and put them in jail, we ve tried that and we know that doesn t work, it just rob: what do you say, obviously what do you say to a business owner who is trying
a buck a night, right. and that s now illegal. you can t do that. john: and they were lousy places but they were better than people living on the street. on the street, which is not just bad for the people on the street, it s also bad for cities. at the very least, we have to have a rule. if we re going to ask government to provide free housing on demand to people as we have in new york, you don t get to sit and lie on the streets and colonize public spaces. i don t know john and to prevent john: and to prevent lying on the street and colonizing public space a lot of business owners are putting little spikes up which, here s a headline spikes, metal studs treat the homeless like animals. well, they re just trying to maintain some public order. it s not unreasonable to expect that city sidewalks are free and clear for people workers getting to their jobs, to feel safe for business owners not to have to clean feces and crack needles from their stoops in the
and that s now illegal. you can t do that. john: and they were lousy places but they were better than people living on the street. on the street, which is not just bad for the people on the street, it s also bad for cities. at the very least, we have to have a rule. if we re going to ask government to provide free housing on demand to people as we have in new york, you don t get to sit and lie on the streets and colonize public spaces. i don t know john and to prevent john: and to prevent lying on the street and colonizing public space a lot of business owners are putting little spikes up which, here s a headline spikes, metal studs treat the homeless like animals. well, they re just trying to maintain some public order. it s not unreasonable to expect that city sidewalks are free and clear for people workers getting to their jobs, to feel safe for business owners not to have to clean feces and crack needles from their stoops in the
gives under your bed. can you name him tommy, teddy, they are friends. and your parents will get used to our new juicy voice as we pick up the puppy of your choice. [cheers] and we had that dog for 10 great years. what kind of dog. golden retriever blonde like us. you did that every year? did you end up with 25ing toes? 101 dalmatians. and just a little while we are going to be sharing ours as well. tucker, clayton and me. that s right, more music. we are going to celebrate with american opera singer. performing silver bells from her album christmas in new york. here it is. city sidewalks busy sidewalks dressed in holiday style