Posted on 08/19/2022 9:38:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If brighter days are ahead for the U.S. economy, why are so many tent cities popping up all over the nation? At this point things are so bad that even the New York Times is admitting that “America’s homelessness problem has the makings of an acute crisis”. That article goes on to explain that our homeless population is steadily rising. Tonight, hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans will be sleeping in tents, under bridges, in overcrowded shelters or in their vehicles. Of course there are many that are so addicted to drugs or alcohol that they just sleep wherever they end up passing out. This is a tragedy that is growing with each passing day, and it is only going to get worse in the months ahead as the U.S. economy slows down even more.
Earlier today, I was truly stunned by a Fox News article about what is going on in Portland right now. Tent cities are literally taking over entire neighborhoods, and many residents are “resorting to selling their homes” as a result…
Residents in a Portland, Oregon, neighborhood are resorting to selling their homes and moving due to homeless encampments right outside their front doors.
“It’s a little scary because I know there is mental illness and that concerns me,” North Portland resident Maria Inocencio told KGW8.
Residents of North Portland said at least three families on one street have left in recent days due to the homeless camps, and KGW8 reported seeing for-sale signs up and down streets.
Portland was once such a beautiful place, but now it has literally been transformed into a hellhole.
Needless to say, Portland is far from alone. From Seattle all the way down to San Diego, communities all along the west coast are being plagued by relentlessly growing encampments. In many cases, such encampments are magnets for drug addicts and other societal outcasts.
But this is not just a west coast problem.
Let me give you are couple of examples. In recent weeks, tent cities have been popping up all over Pittsburgh…
“We want immediate action. We want to see people in homes. There’s a humane way to deal with homelessness,” said Pittsburgh City Council president Theresa Kail-Smith.
Homeless camps are popping up all over the Northside.
You’ll see them on the Riverfront Trail to Millvale.
Another makeshift tent city popped up underneath the Andy Warhol Bridge.
And in Fayetteville, North Carolina one burgeoning homeless camp recently made news because it features quite a few registered sex offenders…
There are 843 registered sex offenders living in Cumberland County. For dozens in Fayetteville, their home is a tent alongside the road.
Deputies in the Sheriff’s Office Sex Offender Registration Enforcement Unit (SOREU) learned the group of offenders are homeless and stay in a tent community along where the busy Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway (Highway 87) goes over Gillespie Street. Some live under the overpass while others live in a nearby field beside Gillespie Street.
From coast to coast, this is becoming an enormous issue.
And the truth is that it is only going to intensify as the months roll along.
In 2008 and 2009, millions of Americans lost their jobs as the economy plunged into a major downturn.
Once those people lost their jobs, many of them could no longer afford their homes and soon found themselves on the streets.
I wish that we would never have to see anything like that again. It was truly a very dark chapter in our history, and countless people had their lives turned completely upside down.
Unfortunately, it is starting to happen again.
As I detailed earlier this month, large companies are starting to lay off workers in substantial numbers.
This even includes Facebook. This week, we learned that Facebook recently used a very unique method to lay off one group of workers…
A group of about 60 contractors who work with Facebook learned they were laid off this week after they were chosen ‘at random’ by an algorithm.
The layoffs are the latest example of Big Tech reining in spending and hiring, as just days ago Apple let go of about 100 recruiters.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also recently said he will weed out underperforming employees with ‘aggressive performance reviews’ as the company braces for a deep economic turndown.
I suppose that is one way to avoid personal responsibility for firing someone.
“Don’t blame me – it was the algorithm”.
If a big corporation that is swimming in cash like Facebook already feels forced to “thin the herd”, I think that is a very bad sign for the employment market as a whole.
In the months ahead, I think that there will be a lot more layoffs all over the country.
And this comes at a time when the housing market is starting to collapse.
Existing home sales in the United States have now fallen for six months in a row, and the numbers for the month of July were downright depressing…
Sales of previously owned homes fell nearly 6% in July compared with June, according to a monthly report from the National Association of Realtors.
The sales count declined to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 4.81 million units, the group added. It is the slowest sales pace since November 2015, with the exception of a brief plunge at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.
Sales dropped about 20% from the same month a year ago.
I anticipated that home sales would be lower than last July, but a 20 percent drop is pretty catastrophic.
And as the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, it is probably inevitable that the numbers will get even worse.
The stage is being set for a historic economic meltdown, and I would encourage you to do what you can to get prepared for it.
2008 and 2009 were extremely bitter.
What is coming will likely be even worse.
And as the economy deteriorates, tent cities will continue to take over more neighborhoods all over America.
But don’t look down on those that are living in tents.
With a run of bad luck, you could be one of them too.
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If rents it means the person is paying more than one rent...that is several different apartments.
Rent is what the individual pays for one place.
Same thing I have been saying for years. mental hospitals were closed down after the movies TITICUT FOLLIES and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST were released.
If the mental institutions were opened most of the mass killers would have been incarcerated before they went on their killing spree.
Problem is, so many of the Biden Administration would have to also be locked up.
Every time I hear John Lennon’s “IMAGINE” I realize the Eloi in THE TIME MACHINE had attained it, all provided by the Morlocks.
The Eloi were the food supply for the Morlocks.
Sidewalk fried drifter?
That is unfortunate. Phoenix is one of my favorite places, even if the summer will burn the hair right out your nose.
Thank you Brandon !
Inflation Bill doesn't even address inflation, just addresses the liberal green energy wish list, and the IRS.
"You Will own nothing and be happy": is Orwellian Doublespeak (!), and you become more dependent on the Government !
Just don't pi$$ them off, and get nothing !
Lets put these tent cities on the Mall in washington DC! The homeless can live in the Lincoln memorial and on the steps of Congress! WE can house them on National Parks and old Battlefields. Maybe use old army bases—we don’t need an army anyway the FBI and IRS can protect us.
My solution is simple...stay away from these hellhole cities. There is nothing there for me that is worth my while. There’s plenty to see and do in so-called flyover country.
Also, energy goes into everything, including building housing, and thanks to President Butt-Head, that’s gone up, meaning less housing will be built, and at least some of that housing will be more expensive.
Don't you know, a recession is caused by many factors. Who cares about that silly GDP? /sarc
Until this happens -- and it will happen ... eventually -- the dangers of allowing this to continue will accelerate. Denial, failed solutions and looking-the-other-way is just not going to work. That's just the way it is.
QED
Yes, temporarily.
If they are not drugged out zombies they should be able to work their way back up from there.
The article assumes that these people were not always living in the street.
Joe’s wage depressing Mex invasion is part of the American homeless problem but that connection will never be mentioned.
Why are they taking over Nashville? I have this picture in my mind of Nashville being a nice, sleepy southern town with the Grand Ole Opry and not much else from my trip there 25 years ago. Have things changed?
I guess instead of putting in an RV park, it should be a tent park.
Wow. Thx for the link
On a trip I took to San Diego a few weeks ago, I counted an average of 10-15 homeless people on every city block downtown. A tent city was literally across the street from my five-star hotel. I’ve taken many trips to San Diego over the years. This trip was by far the worse.
It’s truly now a complete disgrace…
Oral surgeon used in when my husband was having all his teeth pulled for full implants. Fentanyl IV with nurses doing constant monitoring. If he got too sleepy they backed off the fentanyl. Whole thing was an all day procedure and he didn't feel a thing, or at least he didn't care.
“In 2008 and 2009, millions of Americans lost their jobs as the economy plunged into a major downturn.
Once those people lost their jobs, many of them could no longer afford their homes and soon found themselves on the streets.
I wish that we would never have to see anything like that again. It was truly a very dark chapter in our history, and countless people had their lives turned completely upside down.
Unfortunately, it is starting to happen again.”
“I’ll take, ‘What Happens when Socialist Democrats are in Charge?’ for $1,000, Alec!”
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