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Bay Area calls on homeowners to help house homeless residents
ArcaMax ^ | 2/7/22

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bayarea; bidenvoters; california; homeless; homeowners
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To: Zenjitsuman

She is running to win and then resign and give her crown to another radical leftist scum


41 posted on 02/09/2022 2:55:39 AM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: MAGA2017

How many does Nana Piglosi have living in her gated estate home?


42 posted on 02/09/2022 3:00:08 AM PST by Iron Munro ( Joe Biden - Inventor Of The First New Language since Esperanto)
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To: MAGA2017

Plenty of room at San Fran Nan’s mansion. Step up, Pelosi!


43 posted on 02/09/2022 3:56:08 AM PST by Cecily
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To: MAGA2017
"Bay Area calls on homeowners to help house homeless residents"


44 posted on 02/09/2022 4:04:25 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Chickensoup

Gavin Newsom


45 posted on 02/09/2022 4:06:58 AM PST by vivenne (")
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To: Telepathic Intruder

—”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.”

AmeriCorps still exists and paying minimin wage plus a stipend, plus...

NB: A Private E-1 is paid $1,800 a month for usually more than 40 hours a week.

https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/serve/americorps/Pages/default.aspx
AmeriCorps often described as “the domestic Peace Corps”, is a national service program that involves people in “getting things done” in local communities. The program develops a lifelong ethic of service among the Members who serve. The Serve Illinois Commission funds 40 AmeriCorps programs across the state with approximately 1,800 AmeriCorps Member positions.

AmeriCorps Members provide a variety of services as determined by local needs, including tutoring and mentoring youth, teaching health education classes, and leading community volunteers in service.
Full-time AmeriCorps Members provide 1,600 hours of service during a year. Less than full-time Member positions are also available at some programs.
Full-time AmeriCorps Members receive a small living stipend while serving. Living stipends may also be available for less than full-time Members.
Upon completion of their service, Members receive an Education Award that can be used to pay qualified student loans or attend an institution of higher education.
Full-time members are also eligible for health care and, if income eligible, child care benefits.


46 posted on 02/09/2022 4:42:42 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: MAGA2017

lol

homeless = drug addiction

“Will you please bring this drug addicted person into your home?”. Haha - yeah, that’ll go over well.

Besides, liberals are generally only generous with OTHER peoples’ money. Let’s see how virtuous they really are.

I’ll wait.


47 posted on 02/09/2022 4:51:30 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: SpaceBar

In most states, once you invite someone into your home, it requires a lengthy legal process to make them leave. If you invite them in, it’s now their home also.


48 posted on 02/09/2022 5:00:18 AM PST by Calvin Cooledge
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To: MAGA2017

the dangers outweigh the benevolence.
Period.

Have the red pols who put forth this suggestion be the first to step forward and act on it personally. Get back with us after the phase three trials are completed, with the summary to include complied reporting about fighting evictions, thefts, drug convictions, house fires, property damages, rapes and murders.


49 posted on 02/09/2022 5:06:19 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: MAGA2017

That’s how it starts.


50 posted on 02/09/2022 5:09:29 AM PST by exinnj
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To: MAGA2017

even thinking about bringing a mentally ill, drug-addicted street denizen into ones home is complete insanity, especially without any kind of vetting or criminal background check ... over the years, there have been several stories posted here where “kind-hearted” single women have open their homes to these types of individuals and were murdered for they efforts by their “house-guest” ... this is even more unthinkable for families with children ...


51 posted on 02/09/2022 5:46:44 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science ...)
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To: .44 Special

OK, go to court and get a Judge to sign off on voiding the property rights of the legal owners. After that you can forget any new apartments being built in SF, god help they have a vacant unit because someone just moved out and no one has rented yet. Also does the City really want to be come a landlord with the responsibilities and costs?


52 posted on 02/09/2022 6:02:18 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: 4Liberty

Yuri returns to his family home

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mq__Z-Z_Ofs


53 posted on 02/09/2022 6:05:37 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: MAGA2017

Way back when I ended up doing precisely that. Got a couple formerly homeless roommates.

Their friends would come over.

The tales from that day were legendary on the old FReeoples threads.

Kids would come, stay a couple days do laundry, take showers, get a couple nights sleep without being hassled, get cleaned up and go get a job!

I did essentially nothing, let them use the washer and drier, let them shower, cook meals (food would magically appear) and crash on the couch or floor.

For years afterwards some of them would show up on my doorstep just to say thanks. It was very gratifying.
They needed so little and it changed their lives!

Never had a problem with the kids.

Can’t say the same about the adults...


54 posted on 02/09/2022 6:13:45 AM PST by null and void (81 million votes ≠ 81 million voters)
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To: SpaceBar

One does have to set limits.


55 posted on 02/09/2022 6:15:47 AM PST by null and void (81 million votes ≠ 81 million voters)
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To: MAGA2017

Do the property owners go in and and punch holes in the walls and otherwise destroy their property before ,or just let the new residents do that?


56 posted on 02/09/2022 6:16:53 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clinton's )
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To: vivenne

Otto Kor Wrecked strikes again.


57 posted on 02/09/2022 6:17:36 AM PST by null and void (81 million votes ≠ 81 million voters)
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To: MAGA2017

Two words: You first.


58 posted on 02/09/2022 6:21:42 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: MAGA2017

Nancy Pelosi has a lot of room in her house.


59 posted on 02/09/2022 7:23:07 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: catnipman

Take me in oh tender woman
Take me in for goodness sake
Take me in, tender woman!

Sighed the Snake


60 posted on 02/09/2022 7:40:48 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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