Nearly Half of America's Homeless Live in California

SHTFPlan.com ^ | 09/30/2019 | Mac Slavo

[SeekAndFind]

Not only do nearly half of America’s homeless people live in California, but four of the five American cities with the greatest incidences of unsheltered homelessness are in the Golden State. As California becomes a mecca for socialism, their quality of life diminishes along with it in a characteristic dystopian decline.

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Rosa, and San Jose are four of the five cities with the highest amount of homelessness. Seattle joins the California municipalities in the top five. According to Market Watch, the rates of homelessness are the highest in Washington D.C. The District of Columbia’s homeless rate is at 5.8 times the United States rate. New York is next, followed by Hawaii, Oregon, and California. These five states together comprise 20% of the overall U.S. population but 45% of the country’s homeless population.

All of these states are incredibly liberal with several already having instituted tight socialist policies.

A White House report teased out certain trends in homelessness across the country. Communities along both coasts have much larger homeless populations than those in the middle of the country. One driver of this trend is likely the more notable rise in housing prices along the coasts than in much of the Midwest.

The White House report identified local laws and policing practices as a potential differentiator. “Some [states] more than others engage in more stringent enforcement of quality of life issues like restrictions on the use of tents and encampments, loitering, and other related activities,” the report noted. –Market Watch

The Trump administration has floated plans to fix the homeless crisis in liberal areas by deregulation. Many states and municipalities have zoning rules regarding the construction of both single-family and multi-family homes. These laws have impeded the builders’ ability to meet the demand for housing resulting in scarcity which has driven up prices. Experts and politicians across the political spectrum have suggested that relaxing such regulations could provide a boost to building activity.

While that could work, the heavy tax burden on everything from property to income makes it difficult to afford anything even if more housing is built.

[BenLurkin]

Democrat Party governance.

[Bonemaker]

“Nearly Half of America’s Homeless Live in California”

It’s a start...now let’s get them all out there and flood the zone.

[unixfox]

When you give away everything for free, what do you expect?

[combat_boots]

Today, there are pix of big rocks San Fransickers are putting out to discourage homeless people.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: When you give away everything for free, what do you expect?

Free housing?

[Howie66]

Good time to wall it off.

[combat_boots]

Does anyone remember the guy, former military, who wrote a book with “monkeys” in the title, about prepping? This was nearly 10 years ago.

[GOPJ]

Great 'tolerance' of homelessness was the BIG virtue signaling of the 90's...Sick ideas created this human tradegy...

California caused this misery - and they tried to inflict these toxic incentive on the rest of the nation... It was early 'liberal elite' insanity.

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it. Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.

[alloysteel]

California is a homeless magnet.

The weather is, for the most part, better than, say, Billings, Montana, or Minneapolis, or Syracuse, New York.

Plus, there are a number of perks for the homeless, such as non-enforcement of zoning rules that forbid setting up shelters in most districts, be it a tent, or a string of sheets over cardboard boxes. Plus, vagrancy laws are not enforced, even when unauthorized badgering of passersby becomes a great public nuisance. In fact, there went out calls for these homeless people to be provided with better shopping carts, so they would not have to go squeaking and creaking down the street in broken carts.

If you are half in the bag because of mental disorders or years of drug abuse, all this is much preferred to being institutionalized or forced to come into some kind of transient shelter location, where their actions would scrutinized perhaps a little too closely.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I don’t see anything wrong with that. Now if we can only get the other half to move there.

[chrisser]

Starving the Monkeys by Tom Baugh.

[JimRed]

Why don’t the rest of us send all ours there? One way bus tickets, a couple’a box lunches and the address of the destination city’s EBT center.

[mass55th]

It’s the vacation Capital for the homeless of America. As their advertisement says: Visit California: Living The Dream!

[cymbeline]

California has about 12% of the nation’s population.

[Hostage]

In the 2004 WA State gubernatorial race, Republican Dino Rossi won the first count of ballots by a slim percentage, enough to force a machine recount.

Never mind the hold back of out-of-state veterans mail of absentee ballots. Never mind the mishandling of absentee ballots in offsite makeshift mail handling rooms manned by felons on probation with probationary officers registered to the Democrat Party supervising them. Never mind the open admission of college students limiting the number of times they voted to ten unless they were paid more.

After Rossi had survived the machine recount which had closed the gap with the discovery of yet more absentee ballots that had somehow been left out of the initial count (”Count every vote!”) forcing a third hand recount, there was a discovery, ...

get this ...

There was a discovery of more than 500 votes from provisional ballets by unknown persons with registration addresses marked as the address of the County Elections Office.

When asked about who these persons were, the Democrat response was they were HOMELESS.

HOMELESS VOTERS REGISTER THEIR ADDRESS AT THE COUNTY ELECTIONS OFFICES.

To Democrats, not only do they get federal funds for homeless programs which they spend on themselves via contracts to cronies, they get homeless voters.

The Homeless Industrial Complex is democrat cash cow and voter pot.

Rossi lost by 128 votes. A court challenge by Rossi in January 2005 found more than 1600 invalid votes but the judge, a member of the lavender mafia with an ear ring stud on his lower ear lobe, ruled it was impossible to know which way the invalid votes went.

But those homeless, wow, they know how to vote!

[SMARTY]

THAT and also, year round temperate weather. Don’t try that in Ohio

[eyeamok]

zoning rules regarding the construction of both single-family and multi-family homes

You would not believe what it takes to build a house in SoCal, just to get through the Permit Process will cost you at least $100,000 and a bare minimum of 18 months to do it. This, all before you even pick up a shovel.

I just got my grading permit and my bldg permit will be another month or six, I started in March 2018 and have spent about $80k, another $20k to go. I hired an expediter to do everything, this is all she does, is get permits for LA County for everyone else that thought they could do it themselves and most Contractors use her too.

[xp38]

If you’re gonna be homeless California’s the place you oughta be....

[Polyxene]

California Dreamin’