With Helpseeker’s advice homelessness should be history
By Lethbridge Herald on August 26, 2022.
Editor:
An article in the Aug. 18 edition of The Herald caught my attention. In it Alina Turner, co-founder of HelpSeeker Technologies, is trying to explain how to deal with homelessness and after reading it I was totally confused.
Alina states “We need to be thinking from a broader ecosystem perspective, not just plan for what we deliver or will be funding directly.”
She then explains that the idea of creating a housing continuum is difficult due to lack of consistency in terminology for certain factors that play key roles in the spectrum. She said that they do not actually have a good definition of a continuum.
Now I must admit that I had no idea what a continuum is. So I looked it up and here is what I found: “Continuum, a sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other although the extremes are quite distinct.”
Well if that does not explain it I don’t know what will but I still don’t have a clue.
The article concludes with Alina saying “the only way to be able to analyze the data and create a continuum is by using a concept called ontology, which refers to a shared understanding of a particular domain through conceptualizing, use of explicit definitions and relationships between concepts.” She lost me again.
So with advice like that the homeless situation should be a thing of the past in no time at all, although I did like the suggestion made in a recent letter to the editor or perhaps it was in the Roast and Toast in which it was suggested that the use of a bulldozer would be very effective.
That I can understand and relate to.
Barney Feenstra
Lethbridge
12-11
It is this type of “shingled” thinking that has gotten us here in the first place. Highly educated with no life experiences have decided to raise the levels of complexity to a point where they are the only ones who understand what they are saying.
Its the new way of becoming an authority on something you have no clue about. If you can baffle people by layering complexity to a rather simple issue you become the new “speaker” and get invited to shingled no life experience facilities to speak.
I would suspect she demands a high wage for her special skills of layering. Someone within the shingled world of education will likely give it to her! Its very much like the art of looking at a red stripe on a white canvass and paying $5million for it like our National Gallery did and then using bafflegab making it not look like a red stripe on a white canvas but something far more complex then that.
Its all bullchips to justify there existence and confuse the financial systems of the world into funneling money into something that contributes nothing to the problem. Now this company/person may make huge contributions elsewhere but to create confusion by articulating at a level of Hawkings when life experience is all that is needed contributes nothing, and I would be willing to debate that publicly or privately with her!
Who are one of their partners? City of Lethbridge! No wonder councilors have stated publicly “they are confused”!
This:
“Here’s how Finland solved its homelessness problem”
http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/how-finland-solved-homelessness/
“HousingFirst” is, possibly, a fairly successful concept worth exploring.
Now that you have looked up the definition of “continuum”, you need to write ten sentences using the word in order consolidate your understanding.