Homelessness has become a hideous disgrace in almost all major cities. I travel quite extensively, and downtown areas are terrible cesspools, both in human waste and human debris.
On a recent trip to San Diego, I counted an average of 10-15 homeless people on every city block. Tent cities are everywhere downtown. A walk a few weeks ago from 30th Street Station to Independence Mall straight through center city (24 blocks) showed Philadelphia to be virtually a war zone. New York City is becoming irretrievable. Cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and L.A. have been gone for quite some time.
I don’t know how we recover from this disaster. There are some cities who have taken steps. A recent walk around Jersey City’s waterfront area had no homeless. Very surprising to me right across the River from Manhattan.
Liberal policies are tantamount to genocide for these people. There should be some called to account for this disgrace…
I have come to the conclusion that this type of thing is exactly what the Left desires.
They want a permanent, angry, dispossessed underclass.
Marxism and Communism were never going to work in the USA since there was too large a middle class living comfortably.
So they shifted from the economic Marxism to a “Social Marxism” (BLM is just one example, and the Democrat party as a whole is all in on this) to create an emotional underclass of people with grievances.
When you go through a major city and see no homeless, chances are the city has displaced them somewhere and they will eventually filter back in.
In Austin, the “camping ban” was reinstated and a lot of encampments previously growing under overpasses were eventually removed. But people still try to re-establish them. They get turned out again...and later return.
Austin had bought up old motels with the idea of putting homeless there. That’s disastrous on the face of it for many simple reasons you can easily come up with. The city is the winner because they now have land they can sell to developers.