Huntington WV Riverfront Homeless Evicted from 'Tent City'

City of Huntington makes homeless move off of prime-view Ohio river frontage where they'd pitched their 'tent city' for years. ^Footnote* City is embracing nationwide ''Housing First'' initiative.

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• Huntington
• WV
• Homeless
• River
• Ohio
• Housing

[asscat77]

thanks for tearin down our F-Shacks- DIRTY MIKE and THE BOYS

[reshef1285]

@kma367blue thats the problem. MOST (not all) but most of these people just want a free ride, with no strings attached. Things handed to them. Well they SHOULD WORK for what they want, and not lay around until someone else gets tired of their stink and decide to give them something to just get them to go away. I admire those who are homeless that had no choice in the matter, but it hasn't stopped them from TRYING to get back up out of the gutter. Those that do want to improve, will...

[reshef1285]

OK you know why we have so many homeless people in Huntington? Because we have so many government housing and we let people live off the government letting the rest of us pay for the roofs over their heads, and when they cant get that "free ride" any more they just pack up and move to a park, and live in a tent...They have no desire to improve themselves with education. No Desire to pay taxes or to live by the rules. This push to get them out is good. Make them get off their butts and get a job.

[nowthatsinteresting1]

I read that 1 person in 3 in this town suffers from depression. There's something wrong when a town with so much going for it is left to rot like this.

[FireScorpion343]

@jreaper86 Their not just drunk, kids who wanted a cheap thrill would go there and mess with them and then fights broke out. Not only that some were bugging the parents who brought their small children there at the park, which really what parent wants a homeless man/woman around their kids (sadly most peopel think that way) Plus people go there and sell drugs and pay the homeless to be look outs, they are part of a bigger problem in that area thats why they were forced out.

[jreaper86]

theyre not helping the homeless theyre just kicking em out of the only place they had to stay. ive met some of these homeless guys and they are really good people. and so what if they drink all the time. if you was homeless youd wana escape reality too. and fuck this wanna be reporter.

[marshall2411]

@jarnazzi1969 I remember when I was a kid,they had so many stores downtown to shop for clothes. Almost all are gone today, but it always angered my family and I knowing that theyput the mall in Barboursville instead of where it should have went, right downtown Huntington, it would have been just like Charleston.Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the taxes on businesses were always high, and the lady, the mayor for so many years refused to lower taxes on them, forcing thm out, along with NAFTA 

[marshall2411]

@jarnazzi1969 Right, but who knows, maybe it will get better?

[xtiml]

I dont think there is a lot of crime going on in the bushes after dark,

[GnomenKlayture]

At least Huntington has a heart, unlike St. Petersburg, FL: / / 3w's . you tube . com / watch?v = LrPdZmPB36U