LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Clark County elected officers held a city corridor assembly on Wednesday to handle what many have known as an escalating homeless disaster within the central Las Vegas valley.
“I don’t have anything against the homeless,” Matthew Kailimai stated. “I do have a problem when they start breaking our property.”
Kailimai, Property Supervisor of Tamaras Park Flats, is at his wit’s finish.
He instructed 8 Information Now that points with the homeless close to Maryland Parkway and Flamingo Highway are really out of hand.
Clark County elected officers held a city corridor Wednesday to handle what many have known as an escalating homeless disaster within the central Las Vegas valley. (KLAS)
“We’ve spent tens, maybe easily hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Kailimai defined. “On damages over the years.”
Kailimai was one in every of many who shared his issues at a city corridor at Flamingo Library Wednesday.
Clark County Commissioner for District E, Tick Segerblom, hosted the occasion.
“It’s surfacing the issue,” Commissioner Segerblom stated of homelessness in his district. “And now we just have to figure out how to address it.”
In January 2024, Clark County recorded 7,906 folks as homeless, with 4,202 recognized as unsheltered and three,704 in shelters.
This represents a 20 p.c improve from the earlier yr, with lots of these transferring into neighborhoods and resulting in an increase in crime, based on officers.
“It’s a societal problem, but we can’t allow neighbors to have their life destroyed,” Commissioner Segerblom instructed 8 Information Now. “Because someone else is unhoused.”
He city halls with police, non-profits, and elected officers listening and discussing motion as step one to discovering a long-term resolution.
“We just want to let people know that we’re serious,” Commissioner Segerblom stated. “And that police, Metro, people like that see the problem.”
It is one thing Kailimai instructed 8 Information Now he hopes to see sooner reasonably than later.
“It’s hopeful,” Kailimai concluded. “But we’ll see the results at the end of the day.”
Commissioner Segerblom instructed 8 Information Now he’ll proceed to carry city halls to handle homelessness in his district, with the subsequent one scheduled for the top of April.
