Posted on 09/05/2019 9:49:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thou must count to three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Hence the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached.
Droves being the past tense of drives.
The Left will soon say that the deaths are “just the unintended consequence of our compassion.”
Maybe Nan worked out a ‘final solution’. Not too far fetched
To quote/paraphrase Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park, “Nature will find a way”.
I am not a Gaia/Mother earth type, but I do believe that nature can find a way to balance all of it out one day with our help. Some virus will mutate in all the filth we allow and it will jump all over us. Not a sentient act, but just nature/life doing what it does best....evolve to survive.
Malach,
KingofZion in post 29 and ProtectOurFreedom post 38 gave the solution in remembering the original cause of the homeless problem: That the ACLU and other Dem liberals argued and “won” the point that institutionalizing the mentally handicapped was “inhumane” and they should be released to live a ‘normal life.’
And the decline in low cost housing was also due to the “urban renewal” movement that was focused on leveling low cost rental areas also labeled as slums (some were) and to build high rise apartment buildings. I remember the arguments and the news stories about that going on in Chicago in the 60s and 70s when I was in high school and college. I didn’t live in Chicago itself, but in the TV and radio area southeast of it in northwestern Indiana. And where we got the Chicago newspapers every day.
But looking at the Progressive bright side, mortuary business is up and the Progressive goal of reducing the population that survived abortion is rising.
Well I’ve been on a drove...LOL
A primary cause of the loss of low income housing stock (tenements) was the "urban renewal" craze of the 50s and 60s. The liberal do-gooders wiped out square miles of low-cost housing and built millions of "projects" which turned into disasters and were mostly razed after 20 or 30 years. "Flop houses" and "Single Room Occupancy" facilities (SRO) were largely wiped out. SRO is a form of housing that is typically aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes who rent small, furnished single rooms with a bed, chair, and sometimes a small desk. SRO units are rented out as permanent residence and/or primary residence to individuals, within a multi-tenant building where tenants share a kitchen, toilets or bathrooms. SRO units range from 80 to 140 square feet.
Hi, GF. I read the first sentence of your post, then I read Malach’s post 63 about the loss of low income housing stock, then I posted #70 about the root causes of the loss of low cost housing. I mentioned the urban renewal craze in the 40s to 60s followed by the disastrous “Projects” craze and the loss of flophouses and SRO housing.
Then I finally read the second half of your post and saw you too traced it back to “urban renewal.”
The funny thing is here in North Idaho there are several “urban renewal” districts active today. I HATE that phrase and all it connotes. I wish they would find a better descriptor rather than one that is so charged with failure decades ago.
All that overlooks the facts of the matter. Government housing is shunned with preferance to tent dwelling on public land.
There are no homeless. There are tent dwelling squatters
Nixon’s fault, Reagan’s fault, Bush’s fault, Bush’s fault, Trump’s fault...
I disagree.
Decades ago, when the insane were involuntarily committed to asylums, the problem was 1% of what it is now. There was minimal need for government housing because the crazies were locked up and cared for.
You forgot to include that it is also San Andreas’ Fault.
In Chicago “urban renewal” of that era was also focused on the “poor Black” sections of the city. Areas of low cost rental housing was bulldozed and high rise apartments were built. The most infamous was the Chicago Housing Authroity controlled group of high rises known as Cabrini Green. It became a center for gangs and drugs, with the city government doing very little to NO maintenance on the apartments. They were finally torn down between 1995 - 2011.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green_Homes
https://chicagoganghistory.com/housing-project/cabrini-green/
The fact they are mental is irrelevant. They are not homeless. They have homes. They live in tents on public lands.
They are Squatters
wait til the Typhus hits
What a great idea: build nice spaces, free, good food. But don’t ever think this could be a magnet for more homeless. That would never happen in a nice climate. No, no, no!
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