City of San Diego to begin cracking down on homeless encampments
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- Every person will be offered shelter and services before any enforcement action is taken on a homeless individual.
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People keep saying "affordable housing" for decades. Face it. It's NEVER going to happen here in SD.
So true...and in such a "liberal" city you'd think this would be better handled! But no...they act like simply "allowing" people to live like this is somehow generous! It's a lame, BS, unacceptable response.
There are many "affordable" parts of the country to live in. This is mainly a problem of mental illness and substance abuse.
Affordable housing Lmao in cali
@@pjf3837 yeah keep thinking that until it happens to you. Housing prices soar while wages stay low. How is that a problem of mental illness and substance abuse?
@@johnlucier5654 my roommate uses that excuse, most Americans do because they are simply ignorant.
Since the city has allowed it up till now, they will never get rid of the problem.
San Diego is the next Venice Beach. Mark my words?
What the city is guilty of is allowing developers to charge more for rent that average Americans can't afford. The average american doesn't make $150000 a Year we're lucky if we total $30000 take home. Paying 1200 a month for a one bedroom is a third of my annual income. You might be lucky enough to afford that but most of us can't
@@ronaldwinters1327 where is a 1 br for 1200 a month.... Ill rent it today. Last week I checked online there were 2 of the worst rentals in the city for $1600 and $1800, everything else was $2000+. Im talking chula vista, la mesa, spring valley for $2k. Older buildings in city of San Diego start around $2200, newer complexes with amenities like pools or token fitness rooms and parking start at $2500.
There are no openings in low cost SRO buildings downtown like I stayed in for awhile in the 80s. Most are torn down now. You know the ones, tiny room with a hot plate, bathroom down the hall, but it kept you off the streets if you could come up with $90 a week.
How has this city become so fucked up ?
@@johnlucier5654 it's not a poor person problem it's a rich person's problemm, no
Alot of american are homeless because we can't afford it rent.... period. It's a financial war against poor
@@johnlucier5654 I'm in Colorado bud
Poverty isn't a crime,the failure of city government, and the ridiculous rent gouging is apparent.
ok give homeless people your home then
@@Sammich4839 the homeless have zero impact on your life, fuck off
@@genewest8426 so many heartless people in the world that dont see their approach doesnt work. "Get a damn job" was valid when jobs paid the rent. Now 4x jobs cant do it.
@@johnlucier5654 exactly John
I feel for the lady with the garden supply. She's running an honest business, there's a tweaker problem there and she is maintaining respect and humility.
It's sad too bc her family has been there running that business for decades
Has anyone been to a transit station in any major California city. Ours is certainly not that bad.
Authorities issue citations to homeless persons? Seriously, how does that actually work, if it does? What are they going to pay the citations with? Where do they go to pay a citation ... the same spaces that homed citizens go where they want no contact with the homeless? Talk about illogical bandaids that waste resources!
1 thousand tickets all issued to people with no id claiming their name is Joe and Jane doe?
The homeless does get paid money and food stamps.
@@barbaraindio8154 they may get calfresh which is about $180 a month but getting general relief (money) is not common and hard to get. Both usually require a bus trip to a county office in kearny mesa, which would require a homeless person to abandon everything they own for a few hours and hope its there when they return.
In other words dont assume all these people you see on the street are receiving public benefits. There are barriers for them, just as in the idea of getting a job and getting off the street. Its not easy when things like taking a shower, getting clean clothes and a bite to eat might take most of your day to negotiate. Things people with housing take for granted and can do in 30 minutes in the morning.
I don’t get how this isn’t against the law. Health & safety go out the window? I wouldn’t be allowed to have that on my front lawn. Why is this ok?
Becuse VERY SADLY this is the new woke left. These types have far more rights than decent l aw abiding citizens. It just infuriates me that this 8s the way we are progress!!!
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANTLY SAID 😁😁😁😁😁
I have been attacked twice in Balboa Park by homeless persons. This is a public safety issue among other things.
That's a good reason to have a concealed carry permit.
.380 or a 9mm will do nicely if you visit your local range several times monthly
If you can't defeat a weak homeless person in s fight you got bigger issues than hiding a little gun
@@BumbleBees77 weak? do you even how strong these homeless people are? they are jacked up on insane amount of drugs, that'll literally gives inhumane strength.
@@hennythingispossible11 lol ok OK carry a few big rocks to throw at them if they try to fight you
@@johndough201 how do you get a concealed carry permit? I heard it's almost impossible since we're in Cali.
What can we do if they just only love this kind of lifestyle?
The Perfect Question.
Desert
Imagine if Gov't started cracking down on homelessness instead of the homeless. This is like your doctor punching you in the face when you sneeze. - cracking down on the evidence instead of the cause.
Well said
In my town, all street homeless are fentanyl addicts. Sadly, all street homeless encampments are open drugs markets, and many of them will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence.
also the social connection will be hard to break; put anyone in an apartment without the social network that's been created, attempting housing will be a disaster
@@carrenpalmer3453 Unfortunately, many addicts when put into housing they end up destroying it by pulling wall wires out, and cutting copper pipes. they sell it for nothing just to get two three fentanyl pills, popular blues. Blues contain fentanyl, horse tranquillizer, sedative benzos, rat poison, and milk or baby powder. It is designed to make one an addict after first smoke. Very evil.
Let them die
Well................ it's not Happening fast enough..........
how is Fentanyl worse than heroin? I've never understood this....its just more concentrated. You can get the same effect by consuming a higher dose of Heroin right? or is the issue that Fentanyl is cheaper??
high rent and greed causes this . it should be ilegal to move them if they have not committed a crime.
That’s what they said last month too
You can't help people who do not want help...... most are drug addicts, so you have to fix that first. Mandatory Drug rehabilitation centers .
On a island in the pacific ocean. No running away when there's no where to run and hide
You contradict yourself. If you can't help people who do not want to be helped, what is the point of the mandatory rehab?
@@ladyinred5447 so just let em do drugs until they either overdose and die or die from the homeless lifestyle..... whatever has been done to try and help and has not helped one bit . Zero.
2nd option is gas chambers
@@doncastillo7813
Trust me, they haven't tried hard enough or offered the right solutions to help these people yet.
San Diego needs to crack down on foreign and domestic investors, continuing to allow housing to be a business is taking away an essential need everyone should have which is a place to live! It's just allowing the people that can outprice the average consumer to continue to feed their greedy agendas. Greed is a terrible thing!
Word up, the cost of housing is determined by supply and demand. If you "crack down" on housing investors, you're going to have less housing built. You think that's going to decrease the price of housing?
that might help...but most homeless are junkies and mentally ill. They couldn't pay for rent in Detroit.
Good!!!! It’s about time we enforce the rules and stop this nonsense!
Yes absolutely I wholeheartedly agree with you.
@Mr. M.O.G.O.M. detain the truly mentally ill, enforce immigration law, pay living wages.
They’ll do it again and again. there would be no one keeping up with keeping them out.
How about you find them first affordable housing
as a nation we need to bring back mental institutions and get these people off the streets. Give them a choice, get help for mental issues and/or addiction or go to jail.
Just hearing her say "these people" struck a nerve
I've lived in San Diego almost my entire life and I love weather here. At the same time I believe our beautiful weather is also a curse for us San Diegans. Imo, it's precisely such weather that allows homeless people an option to live outside practically year round. It's a magnet for them to come to SD and other places out west from other less desirable and colder places in the U.S.
Homeless live everywhere cold warm they live there till we die.... not like me can more far at a time lol 🙃
Seattle has the worst homeless weather in the country...rain is worse than snow when camping...and its always raining. yet we have way worse homeless than SD.
@@seattleflyboard3807 just goes to show weather has nothing to do with the homeless problem. Only thing that matters is that the politician is a Democrat.
San Diego biggest curse is his Democrat government, go to Florida and you will see no homeless problems…
I live in Oregon and it gets cold AF here. Homeless everywhere.
Turn all city county parking lots into night shelters turn senior centers into senior shelters at night. Turn San Diego public college gyms into night shelters have UCSD public health run them with security.
There is absolutely nothing that can be done to fix this
ABSOLUTELY that's REALITY!!! Unless they would bring back work camps!
and how bout cracking down on crime
I went out to get dinner one night in the Chula Vista area and I noticed there was a small group of homeless tents near the parking lot of the restaurant I was going to. As I was walking back to my car with my dinner in hand, I stepped on something that felt like mud. Upon further inspection I realized that it was human dung. A huge 1 foot long dung on the side walk next to one of tents. This ruined the night and dinner for me. These people need to disappear quick.
Was driving towards the convention center and a homeless woman was openly defecating with her butt facing traffic! Literally on the sidewalk. There is NO excuse to end up that way. These people choose laziness.
the defecator should be shot....we need to treat biological waste terrorism as actual terrorism. what's the difference between stepping on a junky's needle or getting a mysterious powder in the mail? its the same crime.
Need to disappear quick. Thats your solution? Enjoy stepping in shit. BTW most people watch their step.
Sooo its been 6 months, how effective was this?
Why doesn’t the government stop giving out free money and get people back to work! Open up the country and and let business open up to serve and hire people that want to work!
Many of these people suffer from mental illness such as bi-polar. They are extremely expensive and difficult to help. Government's solution is mostly incarceration. Sad situation all around.
A majority of these people are drug addicts with severe mental health issues.
Also, they don’t qualify for any ‘free’ money, unless you are referring to food stamps. That’s all they can really get, but even then, since they can’t keep up with the required paperwork their access gets shut down.
Exactly, these people are just lazy bums. When I was single I used to rent a single room for a few hundred bucks and had enough money to buy food and other necessities. These people can work the problem is that California incentivizes homelessness. Once you cut their lifeline and people stop giving them money, you will see who the real fighters are. I wish we could round them up and place them in a well guarded facility to keep them off the streets and away from drugs and alcohol.
I'm bipolar n I have a fulltime job and I'm going to school fulltime so. . . They're bipolar so they can't work huh because even ppl with down syndrome and physically disabled ppl have jobs. What other excuses can you come up with?
@@kirty9880 Extremely proud of you for your perseverence and success with such a challenging situation.
P *3 of 4* Those with income pay rent which is 10% of their net income to the homeless-village for their 2 person _Shelter 64;_ and 20% of their net income as rent for the 4 person _Shelter 100._ Their rent money goes to pay for: *childcare for working parents,* one free meal per day; in the community-room.
So much compassion in these comments
I lost all my compassion a long time ago for people who do illicit drugs and make life miserable for everyone else.
I have compassion for us hard working individuals who wake up early everyday to go to school and work our butts off every day to try to survive n be successful, pay our bills and our rent and pay taxes n barely make it by n still deal with thiz B.S
@@kirty9880 what happens on the day you get hurt or other health issues, even old age, make you unable to work hard any more? Look at a lot of these people theyre too old to compete in the work force any more, that could be you some day.
Ill do you one better. 35 years of "hard work" including 4 years in the military, destroyed my body so I cant stand more than 5 minutes without pain. Working full time is out of the question, if I didnt have a car to sleep in Id be pushing a shopping cart. Go ahead and keep that nose to the grindstone, one slip up and youre out of life.
How about cheaper rent. This price gauging is ridiculous. Deal with these pp???? Really That could be you lady..
Idiot liberals do everything they can to demonize those who would build more market-based housing, then complain about the price of rent.
The reality is that rent is too high these days.
The reality is drugs alcohol and criminal records Most working people can't afford to live in theBay area. But you want these types to!!!???
They have to be some where right. Some of those people are okay but some are actually insane.
Thanks white shirt lady
nothing will change
This is the result of voting blue.....VOTE RED !!!!!!!! ALWAYS VOTE RED !!!!!!!
and how about actually helping them out instead of forgetting about them
You can't help people who can not or will not help themselves.
So many druggies
Fentanyl
@@frankihatch
Drug that made George Floyd famous
Have you tried offering them drugs in exchange to leave
P It cannot *ban homelessness* nor can it hold back the tides. It ends homelessness by building affordable housing homeless shelter communities. Where rent is 20% of net income for a four bed shelter.
Best way to avoid homeless people, live in a city that a extreme summer & winter, problem solves itself.
How about affordable housing
@@SundayCookingRemix affordable housing is not the issue- these are people with severe mental health issues/drug addiction issues. Many have severe behavioral issues which makes it difficult for them to function within society.
@@rgdssd you stated it exactly right every bit of what you stated is absolutely right
Actually. I'm from NY and there's plenty of homeless there and lots of extreme weather. You can be homeless anywhere. There, they open up empty warehouses, if the Y or Salvation Army or Volunteers of America is full. But, every year a bunch of people freeze to death, even people who aren't homeless that can't afford heat. It's sad.
@@fredbrunner4560 it’s because I have worked with this population for 10 years. You learn the issues with these populations when you are hands on.
We do actually provide housing for them, they are called Mentally disabled homes or facilities, but many times they leave and don’t return because there are rules that need to be followed (ex: no drugs). They also have case workers that assist them to stay on track.
It’s very difficult for them to stay on track, follow rules, etc…so many prefer to be back out on the streets. They have serious behavioral outbursts and burn alot of bridges, many times because they get back on harsh drugs or refuse to take their medications.
Writing a homeless person a citation is pointless
P The shelter village residents pay rent for their unit. The village pays for utility hook ups, one free meal a day, trash removal, and the staff's salaries; which should total only $260,000 a year. Where is it getting its "millions more to run" lie from?
Make the shelterless criminals very insane and cruel
I live downtown and saw a guy with his pants down on the floor and he was literally shitting right on the sidewalk. That day I saw a bunch of homeless people who couldn’t stand up, must have been a strong batch of drugs that was going around at the time.
I live downtown as well in east village. I see that type of thing often. Can’t sleep one night without hearing homeless people fighting outside either. It’s ridiculous. Police don’t do anything but hopefully they will now.
You probably didnt notice that there wasnt a public restroom within miles of the guy. Whats he supposed to do?
@@johnlucier5654 I am pretty observant. At least observant enough to see there are public restrooms (portable toilets) all around East village and in this instance one was within eye sight on the next block in front of the old library. Many of these people choose not to use them and choose to live this way.
@@SweetAura26 its an assumption that the portable toilet was even usable. On any given day about 50% of the restrooms around mission bay are clogged with a mountain of poop and paper.
Maybe this guy was that crazy, but Ive seen such a lack of public facilities to take care of basic human needs that Im not surprised that people just do it where they have to.
@@johnlucier5654 it’s actually not. At this particular one there’s a security guard out front every day. The city comes by Monday Wednesday and Friday as well to make sure it is in working order and the also clean and spray down the streets. As soon as they clean things up ppl trash it again. It’s ridiculous. The city also provides bags and trash cans on each corner for cleanup of feces (intended for dogs) so these people could also clean up behind themselves if they chose to. In some places they may have to go where they can but they don’t here. Many of them choose to live this way. It’s disgusting and this is why most of them are not wanted in certain areas. The filth and the crime. Not everyone is that way but here most definitely are.
We need to get rid of bums
Ahhh words of BRILLIANCE!!!
of course karen had to be her name...
Where are they going to take them?
They could give us rent control, or affordable housing… “cracking” won’t solve anything.
San fransico has rent control its far worse than san diego..Rent control bill has absolutely nothing in it saying it will cap rent. Simpy Puts state and city governments in charge of what homeowners can do with thier properties. That's all. Another department to funnel taxs payer money into and skim of the top.
And not just rentals. You can be forced to rent out open rooms in your house or pay fines. You have to be given permission to evict bad tenants and have to pay to relicate them in many case's. That mean paying thier new deposit. This does not only apply to rentals or people with multiple properties. These rules can and may be imposed on the home you live in. The home your mother lives in. But her kids are all grown and left. Now that state says those extra rooms need to be rented out. Just another scam, Politician and devisive policies are the reason for these people in the st. Many of them need sanitarium not hamd outs. And personally ide far rather my tax dollars went to helping citizens instead of free rides for ILLEGAL immigrants.
How about just moving somewhere where there are available jobs and a lower cost of living?
This is very sad.
No compassion from me, constantly begging aggressively and yelling profanity when passing by. I can't even buy groceries without being afraid of being randomly attack. I don't have a car by the way.
How did afghan refugees end up getting housing in SD recently? who paid for that?
*Sentence 1 of 4* Cities can create 2,000 people villages for the homeless for only $201,000; two beds and belongings per tent.
*Sentence 2 of 4* Go to _Pallet Shelter's_
*Sentence 3 of 4* page to see existing homeless communities.
*Sentence 4 of 4* Using 1,000 $120 10'X10' tents.
Then everyone needs to quit paying taxes and sell their homes.
It's so bad in Carlsbad too that businesses have to keep their doors locked so homeless don't use and vandalize the businesses services.
lol don't they lock that stuff so that anyone whos not a customer wont use or "vandalize" businesses services. Ive been plenty of places where paying customers destroy the place. City college downtown allows the homeless to use the bathrooms and they never destroy the place, the young people do the most damage.
Good luck with that. Try cleaning after them. Then they will do anything if any!
Is about time please fix this problem
Time to relocate the homeless to live in areas where politicians live , work and try to enjoy life. Maybe there will be long term decisions then.
There is a difference in this mess. There are true homeless who lost the main wage earner, or their jobs, or the rape of san diego due to corporate and individual greed (cost of housing sdge and other bills - as we are now estblished as the worst pkace to live due to costs) - these people are turned away for assistance because they are not addicts, drunk, have diagnosis of a mental disorder or are vets orbhave notbbeem homeless n long enough, and the ones that donhave thise issues, Nd the ones that are homeless by choice. Yes there is a huge population out there that like this lifestyle.
The addicts and mental people belong in the mental hospitals the rest should be the ones getting help while the bums get removed.
P *2 of 4* Cities are spending millions of dollars to open and run homeless bed shelters; that the homeless reject due to the many restrictions and lack of security. _Pallet Shelter's_ two person _Shelter 64_ cost only $7,000 and provides a dignified, secure sleeping base of operation. So for only $201,000 [$120 tents] a city can establish and run a *Homeless Shelter Village* with 1000 shelters that can accommodate 2,000 people: 2 beds and belongings per 10'X10' tent.
Yeah right…….,Check 10th and G Street ….Bunch of BS
Thanks for your opinion…. Karen.
“Cracking down” means giving the me the Kansas City shuffle 😂
Kansas City did the same.
P *1 of 4* Cities can eliminate homeless tent cities by replacing them with *homeless-communities* using _Pallet Shelter's_ existing *homeless shelter village components.* The _Community Room_ sells for $37,000 and serves as a shared laundry room, restaurant, *child daycare center,* and addiction services center. The _Bathroom_ cost $35,000 and the _Services Office_ costs $9,000. So for only $81,000 a city can establish a *homeless village.* The 10'X10' *Camping Cube Sport Pop Up Tent* costs only $120 and provides protection from the elements.
A job that pays only $8.50 an hour with no benefits, which takes you two hours each way to get to on the bus; *is not a real job.*
It's entrapment what they're doing to people.
That word does not mean what you think it means.
I AM HOMELESS ! WHEN YOU SEE TENTS, TARPS, AND TRASH, THEY ARE TWEEKERS! I am sick of seeing their filth!
P Can anyone afford to pay for: rent, utilities, food, auto insurance, and -gasoline- deatholine? If he makes only $11 an hour with no healthcare or dental benefits; yes or no?
With that rent prices I'm surprised there's not more homeless
She calls them "these people" they are human beings.
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P *4 of 4* The homeless can simply move the tents they are using now into the homeless-village and the RVs are assigned a parking space. *Or the **_Shelter 100,_** provided by FEMA,* is a $9,500 shelter that is climate controlled, built in one hour, is 100 sq. ft., and uses a folding bunk system to house up to four beds. *_Pallet Shelter's_* private sleeping cabins offer *security* and durability. Which addresses the concerns of the homeless who reject the restrictions of “bed-only” homeless-shelters; for only one night.
P In Los Angeles the _Arroyo Seco Tiny Home Village,_ _Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village,_ _Chandler Street Tiny Home Villages_ proves that everything it said about the costs to build and run tiny home villages being in the millions; is a lie.
USA and your government, you are horrible... how the hell can you let so many HUMANS go homless?! And the talking about them like they are TRASH!?!? ITS YOUR FAULT there is all theese homless souls to begin with 😭
My heart I caaaant😭
The US government did not feed them copious amounts of methamphetamines and alcohol to the point where that's all they live for. Don't forget that the US is also the place where an illegal immigrant can travel to Bakersfield, Ca and earn an honest living to feed their kids good food and a future.
@@adrianl.6306 Youre wrong on all accounts.
@@johnlucier5654 You've never been to Bakersfield ehh? Lmao. You're right though, I am wrong. Cities like San Francisco actually have been providing needles to these people to support their addiction, incredible.
Don't say "crack"downs around the homeless. You'll never get them out
What. 20 years later.
homeless with jobs get conditional affordable housing. homeless drug users or mentality unstable folks need to be relocated to an isolated plot of land with bare necessities like porta potties. Then just rotate/alternate/relocate the sites and amenities within the plot every week to keep the overall site clean/orderly.
On your first statement, section 9 has a 10+ year waiting list. Im a veteran living in my car close to 8 years now there are no affordable housing opportunities its all lip service. Promises of help that never actually exist. If I was drunk or an addict they have a bed for me somewhere but Im not and if I was then got sober its back on the street again.
@@johnlucier5654 The key is affordable housing should be tied to condition of keeping a job to pay the subsidized rent so that don't end up squatting and engaging in extra-curricular activities. and not all urban areas of the country have active development to keep up with population demand. better to move elsewhere if there is 10+ year wait. I haven't heard of a bring-your-own RV park for sober homeless folks, that might be a good in-between solution too. The great thing about triaging people into areas of need is that can have social workers who have expertise in a particular area enter into a less chaotic environment while addressing the problems of each individual.
Don’t let this become another Las Angeles...let’s work together
The problem is the Drugs! Take away drugs and the problem will go away. Stricter laws on drugs is definitely needed.
That's because many employers choose foreign workers over immigrants. Indeed they are wrong because of themselves. But if discipline/affirm them and give direction I'm sure they can change.
Govt should provide porta potties until problem resolution. This would keep them out of stores.
And ensure they never leave
Simple solution LOWER COST OF RENT HELLO!!!! And don’t make getting an apartment so complicated. Making two times the rent of a apartment COME ON!!!! As long as that continues the homeless are NOT going anywhere.
Yes i this is long overdue!
San Diego solution to homeless is rent gouging. !!!!!!
Instead of just asking them to leave your place off work offer them a stocking job...I know how it feels...Instead freaking out use your words and talk with them...and following the rules of the road would mean they need a car which most don't have...try helping Instead of complaining...take time to place yourself in there shoes. Not all homeless want To be homeless..
These ones do. Last I heard they offered 180 of them housing and 7 agreed. These are the hold outs that want to continue doing drugs.
It's the Leaf Blower Solution. When you clear an area the problem only moves to another location. Tax payer dollars being blown around like leaves and the problem is never solved.
Unbelievable! We found affordable housing in Florida!
*Reducing rents in America part 1 of 4:* By providing the 41% of Americans that the _Federal Reserve_ tells us make less than $15 an hour with Homeless-Shelter-Villages [HSV]; where their rent is 20% of their net income. Will *reduce rents increased* due to runaway-AGW destruction of housing; by *50% across the entire country!!!*
so you give them a fine ya thats a good way to help them
QUESTION? Can someone tell me exactly how do police issue citations....let alone collect the fines....from homeless people who have zero identification? Do they just make them all out to the names Mr and Ms Smith? I cannot imagine a homeless addict with no id giving correct information so that he can have a warrant on his rap sheet for non payment?
You are wrong and this is an extremely distorted news piece.
People often become homeless when they lose their job and can't pay rent.
If they do not have an extended social network or family Network to fall back on, they end up on the streets right there.
I actually was homeless for three months about 20 years ago and it was the most terrifying experience of my life. The effects of it are permanent.
It is extremely disorienting to find yourself with nowhere to live, and nowhere to go. Then to fully realize society could care less if you live or died.
That there was no real help and that the most of the agencies that accept Federal funding and donations to allegedly help the homeless do not actually help the homeless FYI.
The majority of the people I met were completely sober and straight. Many were in the exact same situation.as me. Single mothers just one or two paychecks away from paying rent is equivalent to being one or two paychecks away from being homeless and more and more Americans are falling into this but even twenty years ago the majority of people I met while homeless we're literally other single mothers and other people that were completely sober and not doing any kind of drugs and desperately trying to figure out what to do.
I have a bachelor's degree and I used to be a homeowner.
Literally falling off the edge financially and no safety-net, that's the bottom true line for the 3 million homeless people that find themselves on the street and the majority of the other ones that are self-medicating actually have severe PTSD and very traumatic stories, schizophrenia and other mental illness. One thing you should say in your story is "the only street drug that stops the hallucinations from schizophrenia is alcohol", but you don't say that. Your agenda is to make homeless people less than human.
It is such a lie to present homeless people as alcoholics and drug addicts. Yes some of them are but 90% of them are NOT and a lot of them have children, and literally just couldn't pay the rent.
If most Americans realize that it can happen to anybody anytime you would not be presenting such a one-sided false story.
So bring back the safety net programs and end austerity measures
Too many homeless people
Read my comment , as evidence for me.
Homeless people who continue to rent will continue to be homeless.
*Paragraph 4 of 4.* 89 million Americans is 27% of the *working* population! Or a $50,000 a year stipend for 40 million American families of 4 making less than $15 an hour; *so that they are NOT made permanently homeless.* Amen.
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*Reducing rents in America part 4 of 4:* There is allot of land being ravaged by extinction by the year 2060, runaway-AGW extreme weather events. Using this land that will be ravaged again by floods 3 feet higher; to establish homeless-communities built on trailers. So like a Native American village the entire community can be moved to follow the buffalo or avoid a flood. *No part of America will be left untouched by its procrastination to address global-warming.*
Funny… I don’t see this problem in Beverly Hills… they have their own police force…
Let's see them almost getting stabbed by one of them. See if that works! I was almost stabbed by one 3 months ago
These freaks get away with ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!
Y does Cali allow all this homelessness, in good neighborhoods? Tourists won't put up with this! Its a disgrace. The politians aren't doing a good job!
If they would give these homeless people a storage unit they could turn this into a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. sleep spot and they can keep their stuff safe in a storage unit.
Who's going to pay for the storage unit, and who's going to clean up the mess once they trash it, fill it up full of garbage, or set it on fire?
They already have storage facilities for the homeless. Have you seen the stuff that some of them have?
That would actually allow many to get off the street if they could just live in their unit. Unfortunately regulations don't allow it because of fascism and the status quo.
Surprised by the number of homeless here, have them park right outside my place of employment
P *Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.* Deny instincts to be cruel. *Think before you speak and choose to be kind.* _Choose to be charitable._ *Know that there is a Holy Trinity. So be brave. Have faith. Be humble.* Find the courage to grasp a *real-man's* first obligation; *to protect his family and our Mother the Earth. From being injured and killed* _due to the bottomless greed of Satan's minions._ Amen.
Crippled most