Posted on 06/23/2019 8:57:09 AM PDT by Hojczyk
As Los Angeles County grapples with a growing homeless population, San Diego has managed to get more people off the streets and into shelters, according to San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer..
The homeless count is] down 6 percent county-wide, he told FOX Business Stuart Varney Opens a New Window. on Friday. It really is about challenging the bureaucracies that have been entrenched in the status quo and doing things differently.
By comparison, Los Angeles County homelessness spiked 12 percent over the past year.
One of the things that we are doing in San Diego, that I think is really having a dramatic effect of getting people off the street is, weve established bridge shelters with help and wraparound services. A storage center for belongings that is helping to clean up our streets and our sidewalks. And really a sense of our overall attitude that says a sidewalk or a tarp or a riverbed is no place for a home, he explained.
Although the effort has been costly, Faulconer believes its money well spent.
I just signed our budget yesterday over $3 billion in San Diego and one line item alone for helping to clean up our sidewalks, remove trash, my Clean SD program, is $10 million," he said. "I feel strongly about this. I feel passionately about thisthats how you have to run a major American city. We care about the cleanlinesswe care about our environmentand we care about getting people off the street and ensuring that thats happening.
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“..The homeless count is] down 6 percent county-wide..”
How do they know? Do they send out stooges with clicker counters to visually count them?
Compassion would be to institutionalize them behind locked gates unless and until they are no longer a public nuisance or threat.
I heard they do a count periodically. Yes I think they do a click count sort of tally, as they tour the homeless areas and count to the best of their ability.
It’s better than nothing, as far as getting some estimate of how many people are out there.
Total BS
SAN DIEGOS Mayor lies.
I know. I live here.
Showing compassion on homeless and addicts NOT done by enabling them.
Their problems need to be addressed, yes, but simply providing for their addictions does no good.
“Although I have had referrals from judges and lots of wealthy people, I cant arrange help for this person. It is so sad.”
See, this is the problem. Society can’t possibly “fix” all the human ills. It’s not a problem that even America can fix. as can be seen by what’s happening in our major cities. Its indeed unfortunate that you have a relative that falls into this category. So I guess the answer for you is to do what YOU can, because there isn’t enough money in the world to pay for all of people’s relative’s problems. It has to be long past time where this sort of problem is the government’s to handle. It’s time for people to start caring for their own relatives as I see it.
Besides, the vast majority of our “homeless” are “homeless” by choice. Either because of their addiction to drugs, or simply because they want to $hit on society!
IOW, it *can* be done.
6%? They ‘migrated’ North to San Francicko is one theory.
Any displaced homeless druggies can move to Austin, TX now that they’ve nixed the laws banning them from camping out on the sidewalks in front of businesses and UT.
Not exactly; they count the piles of crap on the sidewalks.
He’s a “Republican”
Well, my own words come back to haunt me; I have advised many that some problems have no solutions. I am providing over 50 percent of this person’s support, and no end in sight. But I can’t imagine he is happy with his life so screwed up.
You certainly have addressed the PROBLEM. It took WWII to fix the hobo jungle of the thirties. Unfortunately the Democrat ideals of Compassion designed only to appear compassionet while ignoring the root causes of drug addiction and mental illness have since the sixties only gotten worse. Allowing so called compassion to overrule common sense, has brought us to the point that we now find ourselves.
Dinky little cities like Rapid City are engaged in budget busting tax increases on the general public to provide for the bottomless money pit the situation has become. I don’t necessarily have the answer but throwing tax money at the problem has proven just how bottomless the pit really is if you are offering “ccompassion” as the solution.
My wife likes to remind me of the statement in a movie of so many years ago, and relates it to what communities filled with compassion are finding when they build shelters and facilities that do not really address the behind the scenes issues of “homelessness”. Build it and they will come.
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