No on 302 | Solutions Not Safe Zones
@SolutionsNotSZs
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Enforcement-only policies like Measure 302 have a track record of failure: they don't enhance public safety. They don't decrease homelessness. They don't work.
Boulder, CO
Joined August 2023
"Opponents of the Safe Zones 4 Kids ballot measure have argued that residents should be debating ways to reduce homelessness rather than moving homeless people further out of sight [and] sought to try to drive a wider conversation about homelessness.".
boulderreportinglab.org
The measure affirms a city policy to clear our encampments of homeless people. It also sparked a broader conversation around homelessness.
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We’ll need to show them a thing so hard and complicated, so contentious and time-consuming, so slow-moving and essential: We’ll need to show them a humane approach to homelessness. Time to work, #Boulder. 7/7.
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Months from now, when 302 inevitably fails to deliver on its promises—when Boulder residents experience no appreciable change in our perception of public safety—we’ll need to have something beyond a mythical ‘safe zone’ to show our children. 6/7.
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The policy of sweeping people who have no other options does not make anyone safer. It makes everything more dangerous. That goes for everybody—regardless of housing status, or age. 5/7.
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Ongoing work (day services) must continue, and proposals put forth by candidates in their many election forums (treatment & supports) must now stand up quickly & without delay. 4/7.
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As our public spaces undergo their transformation into “safe zones”, it’s essential that work on solutions accelerates NOW. It’s getting colder outside. 3/7.
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While we’re of course disappointed with the likely passage of 302, the conversations around this measure were deepened*. And they were important conversations. That was a core campaign objective. *not on twitter 🥴.
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"We can’t continue sweeping away people who have nowhere to go, it’s really that simple. Boulder — but really any Colorado city you can think of — needs solutions to homelessness, not safe zones." via @NewslineCO.
coloradonewsline.com
Homelessness appears to many people to be an unsolvable problem. But we have some idea as to what contributing factors increase it.
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RT @BoCoClerk: Hello @BoulderCounty! It's #ElectionDay! . Vote Centers open til 7 for same-day registration, voting, Spanish-language ballo….
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Dropbox locations >>.
Finally: Return your mail ballot to any 24-hour ballot drop box (do not mail) by 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 7. It is too late to mail your ballot. Find drop box locations on your return ballot envelope or at
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Voting centers >>.
Voter Thread: Vote Centers are open til 6 pm today (Mon) & Election Day (Tues, Nov 7) 7 am to 7pm. Find locations at Bring ID. ID options at
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"Criminalization does not reduce the number of people experiencing homelessness. It breaks connections people had made with providers trying to help & exacerbates homelessness & the conditions that lead to it—such as health problems & racial disparities.".
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“Proponents further argue that 302 will bring about much-needed transparency to the way the City adheres to its prioritization matrix, but Question 302 does not provide any such accountability mechanism in its language.”.
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NEW: “People camping outside near a school doesn’t automatically make them drug-addicted criminals — unless that’s the blanket approach we are going to take with homelessness. That shouldn’t be our official policy.”
dailycamera.com
We all know that housing affordability and good, safe transit will always be on any council’s agenda. We must move safe public spaces and disaster preparedness to the top of our priority list. That…
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Enforcement-only measures that simply displace and shuffle unhoused people around the city without providing them with any legal spaces to exist makes no one safer. That's why voters must reject Safe Zones 4 Kids in favor of real solutions. Read the full piece @dailycamera
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