Posted on 06/19/2019 7:38:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Place yourself in San Francisco or Seattle or L.A. It’s rainy, windy. You just got off the bus. You only have $20 cash and you’re hungry and tired. Where do you go? What do you do? Complicate this problem with any of the following:
* You have small children.
* You are suffering from a chronic disease – HIV/AIDS.
* You suffer from bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia and can’t afford, or won’t take, your medication.
* You are addicted to heroin.
* You have limited job skills or limited education.
You are a symptom of the disintegration of our liberal cities, and they are a symptom of societal collapse. These people live on the tattered fringes of a society that is unraveling, but we make the mistake of talking about “the homeless” in the same homogenous way we discuss “blacks” or “illegals.” Identity politics won’t mend this mess; it is largely a shredding of individuals that we’re watching.
Those on that fringe haven’t much in common other than rooflessness. We know this because in most of the West Coast cities where homelessness is epidemic, the powers that be run an annual, one-day-only survey of all available street-sleepers. Officials train hundreds of volunteers who interview and count them. Then they tabulate and analyze the data attempting to make sense of it, but that can’t really be done. Too many of the designations listed are too intertwined to separate.
The data from the 2019 survey in L.A. County shows a wide diversity of tragedies and/or malfeasance. I was surprised to find that by far the most frequent cause of homelessness is domestic violence -- and I assume that most of these are women, women who feel safer on the streets of L.A. than in their own homes.
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I was surprised to find that by far the most frequent cause of homelessness is domestic violence — and I assume that most of these are women, women who feel safer on the streets of L.A. than in their own homes.
Well that’s BS. I see many many more men that are homeless than women. And I don’t know about where other people live but here in California the illegals and their families have taken up all the low income neighborhoods. In our small city the whole Eastside, which used to be less expensive than the rest of the city, is all Mexicans, Guats, etc. now. They also moved in and took over what used to be our black part of town moving them westward. Turned good parts of town into ghettos.
Lots of consequences from illegal immigration. If they want to talk the high price of renting as the cause of homelessness they have to address the illegal immigration issue at the same time. But they won’t.
Liberal policies have intentionally torn apart the American family.
They have done, and DO, nothing to care for the losers THEY created....Unless you can call blaming everyone ELSE a plan for helping
It is indeed BS.
I suspect the majority of homeless people seeking assistance are women, thus they make it on the lists.
But the real vast majority of homeless people are men. Who are never counted or identified.
Many homeless choose that life because with free food and housing, they are better able to afford their drug habit.
Also, by concentrating the homeless, it is far easier and safer for drug dealers to access their better paying customers.
Change that economics and you would dramatically change homelessness.
Real simple alternative: anyone getting “crazy money” has to drug test and live in a supervised shelter.
“Well that’s BS. I see many many more men that are homeless than women.”
Of course you do, because nearly all homeless people are men. Women have one asset they can generally trade for a place to sleep at night, while men usually don’t have that option.
I would bet that the reason behind that statistic is because they are probably counting every woman who is living in a “battered women’s shelter” as homeless. I wouldn’t really consider that to be homeless, and it certainly is not the same as living in a homeless shelter among junkies and criminals where they kick you back out on the streets every morning.
But, it is the FREE lifestyle promoted in songs and movies for the last 80 years!
BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN
KING OF THE ROAD
Me and you and a dog named boo,
Traveling and living off the land..
Easy Rider..”You represent the thing they fear most, FREEDOM!”
Governments (politicians) at any level never take responsibility for their own failures. They just continue to pile on more taxes, fees, laws and regulations. Plus patronage study committees and other useless stuff.
This was not something Los Angeles could be criticized for then, but it has obviously had unintended, if foreseeable, consequences. When the rotten fruit of that policy began to stink, instead of addressing the problem at it source by enforcing vagrancy laws and other petty violations as Giuliani did in New York City, Los Angeles reinforced failure with an even more permissive approach to squatting and the health and crime issues associated with homelessness. Is it any wonder that the problem now seems almost out of control.
Los Angeles is admitting they have 50,000 homeless on the streets.
IF they are admitting to that number, I will bet an ice cream bar that the real number is much closer to 150,000.
And it’s even better if you’re a Democrat. Homeless populations created (in large part) by generational failures of liberal policies are always blamed on heartless Republicans. So, pols presiding over the current epidemic like Gavin Newsom and Eric Garcetti, get a free pass.
I chose the word “epidemic” deliberately, because that may be what finally forces action on this issue. A number of doctors and public health officials are warning that the homeless encampments are breeding grounds for typhoid, typhus and even the plague. Can you imagine a plague epidemic in la-la land? Some experts say its just a matter of time, and the likelihood is further increased by unfettered illegal immigration and the anti-vaccine kooks.
And as the outbreak spreads to the wealthy suburbs, you’ll be surprised how quickly the homeless are rounded up, and their tent cities razed. The swells in Hollywood and the tech wizards in the Bay Area are happy to tolerate the homeless (and their accompanying problems) as long as it doesn’t affect their rich enclaves. Faced with a deadly, communicable disease that doesn’t discriminate, their hypocrisy will evaporate faster than an ice cub in Palm Springs in July.
Fleas love the dry heat of Southern California. Fleas infest rats, wildlife and even poorly cared for domestic pets. Fleas carry the plague.
Please PLEASE everyone who can, watch "Seattle is Dying" Seattle is Dying,
It gives a objective, plain, and TREMENDOUS picture of what is RUINING our big cities especially, and, what makes it really special, actually presents a SOLUTION to the problem, and PROOF that the solution works!
Watch it if you have the nerve...
...Or just keep bitching about how "no one will ever solve this problem.....
I’m done caring about problems and/or solutions. They are nothing but campaign issues for the politicians. As far as the homeless go....tell them to move along, and keep moving them along until they are out of the cities and out of everyone’s sight and out of the way. Not even gonna apologize about it, my compassion is gone. Don’t care where you go but you can’t stay here. Just move along.
How’s that for a solution?
It sure sounds like virtue signaling to the pollster to me.
Yep, and when the epidemic begins, Garcetti and Newsom will be pleading for Washington’s help, and the MSM will predictably, blame Trump’s “inaction” for the crisis. I can also see the horror stories about homeless people being rounded up for medical treatment and delousing, along with the clearing of their encampments.
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