Posted on 02/08/2022 10:44:46 PM PST by MAGA2017
SAN JOSE, Calif. — As the Bay Area continues to struggle under the weight of its homelessness crisis, officials and nonprofits are asking local residents to do more than hand out meals or donate spare change. They’re asking them to open up their homes.
Nearly 30,000 people are unhoused in the five-county Bay Area, and there isn’t nearly enough room in the region’s existing affordable housing developments. To fill the gaps, service providers increasingly are recruiting private landlords to take in homeless tenants. Some property owners are renting out entire units in exchange for agreements that the government or a nonprofit will cover the rent. Others are offering up spare bedrooms in their homes – sometimes in exchange for a small stipend, and sometimes as a purely charitable act.
But it’s hard to find owners willing to take a chance on someone down on their luck. At least one program recently ended because of a lack of landlord interest.
“This is something that someone can do when they just feel that despair of ‘oh my gosh, I just can’t stand seeing these poor people on the streets near my home,’ ” said Christi Carpenter, executive director of East Bay nonprofit Safe Time, which places unhoused college students and families in spare bedrooms for between one and six months. Since 2017, the group has made more than 60 placements.
Richmond Mayor Tom Butt recently partnered with the Rotary Club to match unhoused people with local landlords. The small program will be funded entirely by private donations and landlords will get one year’s rent in advance. The number of people Butt can house depends on donations and volunteer interest, but he already has two more landlords lined up.
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Government: Sorry, we take 60% of your income in taxes, but we can’t keep the streets reasonably clean and safe - can you help out a little bit, racist?
Yup. What a joke.
F U
I’m a man of few words.
Not you of course...
So sick of the term “homeless” or “homelessness” being used to describe these situations. With very few exceptions, these people are drug addicts and/or criminals or mentally ill. Giving them a home doesn’t solve the problem. It’s not a housing issue.
EFAD pibg
Good one. Which reminds me, has the Salvation Army apologized for calling on all white people to apologize for racism?
hey mayor ...and all you social justice warriors...you first....open up your homes to these street people.....
so sorry for your wife and the kids....
Just add it to the cost of the crack pipes they're already paying for.
How soon will they demand people house them?
The obvious solution is work camps. The state gets cheap labor, and the homeless get somewhere to live. But of course, that makes sense, and we don’t want that.
I believe they are still ‘recalibrating’ on that one.
San Fran Nan has been in office for decades
and her home town has gotten worse.
How does she have the Chutpah to run again for
office?
Instead of her vendetta against Trump she should
spend her time working on economic developement
and drug treatment for her homeless.
Hey Nan how about an ice cream party at your house
and while your gone give a homeless bum a place
to spend the night.
I know someone who was big-hearted (dumb) enough to let a homeless couple camp on his property. They became unwelcome squatters and many months and dollars later he finally got the necessary legal papers and the sheriff to escort them off the property. Let that be a lesson to anyone reading this.
yup
and they provide zero services to homeowners as well
the poop literally keeps mounting up
That's as far as I go.
Every time my wife gets angry and says "you hate my family", I remind her of those "visits"...lol.
"hey mayor ...and all you social justice warriors...you first....open up your homes to these street people..."
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