Homeless Surge Hits Oakland, Silicon
Valley, San Francisco Suburbs
Breitbart Economy,
by
Joel B. Pollak
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/23/2019 3:10:40 PM
San Francisco saw its homeless population rise by 17% in the last two years, but the rise in many surrounding counties has been worse.
A report Monday by Curbed San Francisco summarizing the figures noted: “Five out of nine Bay Area Counties—i.e., all of those not located in the North Bay—saw their homeless counts spike during the same period, with each other county showing worse homelessness surges than SF.”
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Now the problem is leaving downtown areas and hitting the suburbs. Curbed reports:
San Mateo County: rise of more than 20% in two years
Santa Clara County: rise
Is Pelosi and Di-Fi handing out signs to these poor downtrodden waifs? Or is that waif one of their staff?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 7/23/2019 3:31:40 PM (No. 131821)
President Trump better not send federal aid to these cities to combat homelessness. Let those cities stew in their own urine, feces and used needles.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 7/23/2019 3:46:30 PM (No. 131834)
WoW! There were very few homeless in the '50's - '60's when I grew up there. Sad.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 7/23/2019 4:07:07 PM (No. 131850)
I live in the Palm Springs area and right now the temp is around 115 degrees outside with high monsoonal moisture adding to the humidity and needless to say it is hot muggy and nasty out. The one benefit of this is that homelessness out here is no problem this time of the year. We have seasonal homeless people coming in for The Season. So 7 months of the year we have a problem. Right now we don't.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
msts 7/23/2019 4:08:12 PM (No. 131851)
Two years? Hmmm what happened two years ago to make the two years significant. I remember now. Reagan got elected, I mean G Bush, I mean GW Bush, I mean Trump
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/23/2019 4:18:59 PM (No. 131857)
They are homeless because they refuse to pay rent and want to spend every cent on drugs.
Yes, yes, some are actually homeless but almost all are just nauseating junkies.
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Where are these bums' families?
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A couple years ago, I drove through the Central Valley, and up to the Sierra's.
All along the way they had signs indicating how many people were dependent on social programs, and most were above 40%.
It was a subtle reminder to vote for the people who administer the programs (Democrats) and that they "need" those politicians for "help".
Then, add-in the rising fees, taxes, rent payments and you'll find more become homeless, who it seems to reason likely migrate to homeless camps like the one's the article is describing.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/23/2019 5:06:02 PM (No. 131888)
When will even conservative outlets admit that the problem isn't "homeless," it is addicts and alcoholics living on the streets. Treat the addictions and many of the "homeless" will disappear. Until then, they'll only disappear when they overdose and die.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chumley 7/23/2019 5:17:39 PM (No. 131900)
I never even saw a "homeless" person (formerly known as bums) until 1991 in OKC. Some guy was at a corner with his family and an old station wagon with a "will work for food" sign. We were not doing great but we were doing better than that, so like a sucker we cleaned out the cupboards and gave them a couple bags of groceries. The guy was barely grateful and went back out to the road saying "I have money to make".
Years later, my daughter did a report on the homeless deluge in our small town in NM. The kids took a cop with them to get these people's made up sob stories. After they got their interviews, they asked the cop where these people go when the sun goes down. The cop said "They go home".
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 7/23/2019 5:20:55 PM (No. 131904)
Subsidize anything and you will have more of it.
Sucks to be you, fools.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/23/2019 5:37:32 PM (No. 131915)
So I guess San Francisco needs to pay about 4 million bucks (federal grant) to put up 5 signs that say PARKING LOT FULL. GO SOUTH.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/23/2019 6:10:51 PM (No. 131942)
Simple, simple solution - -
- - just put all of hose homeless into the houses being abandoned by the hundreds of thousands of sane citizens fleeing Kalifornia.
Gee - - I have great ideas - - don't I?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/23/2019 6:38:20 PM (No. 131954)
In the early part of the last century, hobos (as they were called) traveled the trains. Often they ended up eating a meal on my grandparents’ back stoop in a suburb of Pittsburgh. They knew Grandma was a great cook and generous with her servings. They never bothered anyone, and didn’t hang around sleeping on the streets or in anyone’s yard.
In Santa Barbara in the 80s the train brought hobos to Santa Barbara. A beautiful place, lovely climate (even in winter), lovely public beaches, trash cans full of good stuff. A survey done while I lived there disclosed they were about 1/3 mentally ill (the state hospitals had been shut down and many patients turned loose), 1/3 drug-addicted, and 1/3 down on their luck but not giving in to homelessless as the state of their life… One of the latter was found to be a woman who lived out of her car and went to work in an office every day.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/23/2019 7:21:53 PM (No. 131983)
PS. Drug addicted and alcoholic...
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It's just the beginning of the tide coming in. With free healthcare and a good climate, just like in the movie, if you build it , they will come.
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