Posted on 02/10/2019 12:24:11 PM PST by hapnHal
For women in particular, domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness. And the top causes of homelessness among families are: (1) lack of affordable housing, (2) unemployment, (3) poverty, and (4) low wages, in that order. And guess what states have the highest homeless? Hawaii and New York, have a higher per capita homeless rate than California's. Finally, records show California, indeed, has the highest total homeless population at over 150,000, far more than second place New York. Will the invading caravans from south of the border help relieve the homeless situation especially in California? And don't forget Los Angeles has declared it's now a sanctuary city.
Drug and Alcohol abuse!
Falling on hard financial times (due to divorce and bastardy) may explain some of the homeless women and their children, but the vast majority of the homeless are addicts (booze or drugs) or mentally ill and unwilling to seek treatment or take prescribed meds. Or some combination of those. And, as anyone who’s taken Econ 101 knows (with the exception of Ms. Occluded-Cortex), if you subsidize something you can count on getting more of it.
We taxpayers will pay for it.
But we taxpayers are already paying for homelessness, in the form of first responders, hospital stays, cleaning up you know what off the sidewalks, and the intangible decline in quality of life when you get homeless congregating in certain areas.
Three main reasons:
1) Republicans thought it was too damn expensive (it was).
2) Democrats thought it was cruel(somewhat was)
3) Quack Psychologist and drug industry said: "we can fix them"!
Assisted living homes are primarily for older and disabled people. Some of us cannot quite manage to completely take of ourselves so we need a little help with daily life.
That doesn’t mean we need to be shuffled off to a nursing home. A home-like long term care place would be a good choice for most people.
“Home, I have no home. The jungle is my home.”
“Hunted. Despised. Living like an animal. The jungle is my home. But I vill show the world that I can be its master. I shall perfect my own race of people...a race of atomic supermen that will conquer the world!”
***are substance abuse and mental illness.***
Blame it on the movies TITICUT FOLLIES and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUOKUO’S NEST. Those two got the mental institutions closed down forty eight years ago.
Yup.
It would just be less expensive to put such people in group homes and have them be looked after.
Everyone’s quality of life would improve and the eyesore of homelessness and the sanitary and real estate impact issues surrounding it would disappear.
Taxpayers already pay for it and if they subsidize housing for homeless people, society is better off in the long run.
If you go where the homeless camp..you notice two things right away. ..lots of beer cans and booze butottles.
And lots of trash.
... Correct.
And, the police downtown have become e babysitters. They are put in all sorts of dangerous situations due to crazy people pulling weapons on them.
You left out government encouragement.
Just enough handouts to keep people from leaving.
That and weather.
I had about 4 tents out the outskirts of the property I live on in LA. I had to file papers with the police to expedite the matter. Then I went home and called them pout. The police came over with a small army and removed them from the property.
They were fast and efficient.
Well this was when Reagan was Governor in the ‘60s. The idea of emptying mental hospitals was pretty much a widespread domestic enthusiasm at the time.
I don’t think there was much attention being paid to Soviet abuses.
Some useful drugs for treating schizophrenia had been identified.
Our always-brilliant elites decided that if schizophrenics could be successfully treated in mental hospitals, then it should be just as easy (and cheaper) to put them back in the real world with a bottle of those same medications.
Of course if they had asked psych techs their opinion, those psych techs would have told the elites: “They will stop taking those meds. The meds have side effects that they don’t like. And when they stop taking the meds then their symptoms will return.”
But then no one in authority ever listens to the people closest to the problem, in any industry, ever.
Not only do human beings have to monitor the surveillance technology, but there will always be cost considerations that leave some places in the facility without video coverage.
Staff members who are up to no good will soon find out where those are, and that's where the abuse will happen.
Also, the humans who monitor the video can be bribed, or they can become the instigators, because the watchers will have a lot of power over those they are watching.
This happens all the time in prison settings. There is lots of surveillance technology, but bad things still happen all the time.
I don't think there are enough high-character people to hire to staff institutions that have it as their mission to take care of people who (1) can't take care of themselves, and also (2) actively resist being taken care of by others. I'm afraid this is just an irreducible fact, at least for now.
Conceivably, robotic attendants might handle the problem someday, but it will be quite a while before that happens.
And that doesn't even touch on the problem of actual criminals who pretend to be insane, find a place within asylums that are intended for people who are really insane and helpless, and then proceed to abuse and exploit the helpless residents. It only takes one or two of those cases to taint the entire institution in the eyes of the activist media, that will turn such incidents into opportunities to advance the political agenda.
Glad that you have found that assistance.
Well said.
Not having a home.
In Oklahoma the citizens fought to keep them open. Since the legislature couldn’t be co-opted there the federal judiciary legislated from the bench.
I’d say the main reasons for homelessness would be mental illness, drugs , very bad luck and barrack Obama
Heart surgery changes one’s perspective on life. When you can do a only a few things on your own, never be afraid to seek help.
Unfortunately that kind of rational concern for one’s own well-being rarely reaches drug addicts and the mentally ill.
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