Posted on 06/24/2019 4:36:58 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
It's market forces. wouldn't you agree? Whatever happened to the flop houses?
The bulk of them are. But a lot of people that work in high priced places can’t afford the high rent, and live in Vans or RVs.
A lot of shelters are zero tolerance for drugs and alcohol, so the addicts prefer the streets.
Booting out Kalifornia politicans would help
My two cents.. A few of the guys I served with couldn't tie their shoes when they showed up at boot camp.
After vietnam a lot were sent home with just their seabags and no clue how to find a job and a place to live . let alone cook for themselves.
If they had family issues they really were screwed without the confines of military service. Prison is the next best thing for some.
Homeless to them means they don't have any responsibility, and can party 24/7 and pooping on the sidewalk is "getting even" with all those who have jobs and responsibility. a big F.U. world.
“Deporting EVERY Illegal Will End The Homeless Problem”
Deport democrats and keep the homeless..we’d be better off.
Mass deportations would ease the housing shortage, though. Some of the homeless want to live under a roof.
Obama prolonging the Great Recession drove a lot of people out of their homes.
A herd of unicorns would provide free Skittles too
Grenada.
If not, it will solve the “illegal” problem.
Too bad it will never happen.
The average Greyhound buss holds about 40 people. We would need about 500,000 bus sorties to remove the lot if my math is correct.
According to their web site, Greyhound has 1,700 busses.
That comes out to 295 sorties per bus.
That suggests that once the wall is built and the border secured some kind of amnesty for those without criminal records may be a cost effective solution. No citizenship and no vote though.
Evicting 11+ million people would definitely increase the supply of apartments and reduce rental costs across the nation.
Good idea - but apartment owners will probably disagree.
Most of the illegals here at least try to work and stay out of trouble. Let’s deport the homeless instead.
The real estate was just too valuable.
Now there are condos everywhere.
So, if you want to shoot up drugs, you can't beg for enough change to afford even a cheap place to stay for the night.
There are no cheap places here.
Ergo tent cites, and sidewalks for toilets.
Not sure how you are going to drive folks back to Africa on a bus.
A few hundred C-17 flights would take care of the Africans.
Since 2017, Airbnb CEO guarantees hosts he’ll pay rents for illegal aliens. Hosts are making big $$, while housing supplies are dwindling & costs skyrocketing.
Illegals are taking up HUD and other low income housing though. Ben Carson is evicting illegals out of HUD housing nationwide right now.
So there is an argument that illegals are living in low income housing that would be available for citizens.
Not going to happen. The homeless are there because they want to be or because there are no state psychiatric hospitals to house them. Some might seek a better life but not many.
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