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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It’s the height of hypocrisy for government to be calling on private homeowners to house the homeless. Not a one of them ought to be opening up their yap unless they have FIRST housed a homeless.
“Dr. Zhivago” Commies...
How many is Pelosi taking in? She better put locks on her ice cream freezers.
Be cheaper to reorganize the Mental Health systems.
No thanks. Why literally invite trouble when I don’t have to?
If this were a family member (niece, nephew, or adult) I would think about it. At least I may have some idea what to expect from them. How do they handle frustration? Do they need constant attention? Do they attract a bad crowd or have frequent overnight guests? Do they work? Do they have a history of stealing from others?
No housing and millions of illegal aliens on the way..what could go wrong!!?
So once they are in your house, how long until the government declares another eviction moratorium like they did during the pandemic? You could get stuck with a mentally ill drug attic and can never get rid of them. I’d love to see the numbers of property owners who sign up for this.
“addict”, not attic.
This would be more credible if the mayors and city council members who have voted, over the years, for crap that creates and attracts homelessness, were offering their spare bedrooms.
But no. They want normal citizens to offer their spare bedrooms.
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Didn’t the British do this before the revolution ?
These are what we call “the underclass”. They have no jobs or property. They are what famines are for. There is no other future for them. Eventually, the time will come.
This is a better arrangement, comrades. More just.
Yes it does, in fact many. First homeless get off the street so maybe tourists return to be robbed....”gee Martha it looked safe in this nice area, look at the expensive homes”. Next, the homeless can steal from the home owner. Keeps the crime down in the stores! Third, maybe the homeowner just gives them the $60 a day in order to not have their items stolen and pawned, another crime prevention win. Fourth the homeowner better feed their new “guest”, he’s going to be using the kitchen anyway! Fifth the streets will be cleaner, the mess will be in someone’s home, out of sight.
So the load on police drops, public crime drops, the streets are cleaner and the budgetary load on the City is reduced. This is a win, win, win, win for the City and a big loss for the homeowner! Oh how long before a judge rules homeowners cannot evict their new permanent “guests”?
I hope that none of the homeowners decide to pay the “guests” for helping out around the house. Now an employee / employer relationship has been created and more City laws apply! Does the City have a minimum wage, health insurance and paid vacation law? Welcome to San Francisco Suckers! Forget moving, you are now an employer and would need to give the required notice of closing your facility and continue to pay....... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some City official must love The Eagles..... Hotel California........ But they can never leave.....
Mark this post because before you know it the State will require people to house homeless people in the houses. The model will be to move in another family, so you have two families per house.
I’m surprised they haven’t already required that people open up their yards to homeless campers
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You first, Ms. Carpenter and Mr. Mayor.
Since 2017, the group has made more than 60 placements.
Wow...im-PWESSIVE!
60...in nearly 5 years.
How many have the journalists put up...personally?
Well, that’s not quite true. I read yesterday that there are 47,000 vacant houses, condos, znd apartments in the SF metro area due to people moving out. So why doesn’t the gover ment appropriate these empty dewellings? Legally they can’t so it’s easier to make you feel guilty and take in a few street bums. Truth is, homeless hell, street bums.
One morning you go to work, that night, your house is emptied... 🤓
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