Environment
Winter campers at Houska Park get a month’s notice to start packing
The homeless community spending the winter at La Crosse’s Houska Park has been given a month’s notice to pack up by the middle of March.
The city posted the notice at the park on Wednesday, saying Houska needs to be cleaned and restored because of “health and safety concerns.”
The park has been used as a campground for unsheltered people for a couple of years.
Unlike last winter, when people were moved from Houska into a Rose Street hotel, the park has been occupied throughout the cold weather this season.
A March 15th deadline has been set for people to vacate Houska.
Other notices will be posted again before Houska is shut down. The city plans to clean up debris and put personal property now in the park into storage for a short time.
Rhead
February 16, 2023 at 9:10 am
Why did the city let them even set there tent up. Another case of dumb ass Mitch not doing his job. What is he going to do when they start sending border crossers here because La Crosse is a sanctuary city what a joke. Just remember we are laughing at you not with you!
Thomas Lane
February 16, 2023 at 1:23 pm
The clowns at “City” hall, have been enabling this problem for years. Don’t blame it all on the current mayor. He inherited a problem from the former loser lib that occupied the office. The solution is pretty simple. A bus ticket to where ever their obama phone’s area code is. Way cheaper than having this disaster here. Remember, don’t feed the bears, it makes them lazy and dependent…