Bug infestations, tent-lined streets:
California's homelessness crisis
is at a tipping point. Will a
$12B plan put a dent in it?
USA Today,
by
Christal Hayes
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
6/14/2021 10:02:35 AM
Tent-lined streets with belongings scattered everywhere. Infected wounds with bugs living inside. A man who hasn't showered in over a decade. An 80-year-old woman who can't feed herself. People who ride the metro rail lines because the trains are a safer place to sleep. California's homeless problem has been out of control for decades. Then came COVID-19. The result has been a deadly combination of medical crisis, human hopelessness and bureaucratic red tape as the state, reeling from the virus' impacts, tries to rebound with a plan for the 160,000 homeless people. That number eclipses any other state – and accounts
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/14/2021 10:15:07 AM (No. 815289)
If a students asks me how does socialism work, I’ll simply point out the homeless camps, the businesses shuttered by democrat lockdowns, plus whatever other malaise, such as $5.00 gas.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 6/14/2021 10:16:24 AM (No. 815291)
Who are the people and why are they homeless? They NEVER focus this aspect of the downside of society and therefore can never address the problems nor find a workable solution. Homeless are not merely too poor to aford a place to live. Many are functionally incapable of maintaining their own living quarters beyond basic survivability.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/14/2021 10:16:46 AM (No. 815292)
They created the problem when they didn't stop it when it started.
Things like this have to be nipped in the bud.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/14/2021 10:18:29 AM (No. 815296)
The entire state does not look like this. The various cities have managed the homeless differently. San Francisco and Los Angeles, the worst.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/14/2021 10:20:16 AM (No. 815299)
Money is neither the problem nor the solution. As long as judges nullify vagrancy laws and state that the mentally ill can't be forced to take medication, no solution is possible. Homelessness exploded when asylums were emptied but judges interfered with effective therapy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 6/14/2021 10:46:56 AM (No. 815341)
I don't see any reports of how much empty housing there is. Is that because it is filled with the Deomcrap favored illegal invaders?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
daisey 6/14/2021 10:50:56 AM (No. 815346)
The vast majority of that 12billion will find it’s way into the coffers of the democrat party and the pockets of the democrat politicians in California.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
moebellini3 6/14/2021 11:22:08 AM (No. 815382)
So lets see. You supply them with the drugs that are destroying their lives and then you steal the money that is supposed to provide them with housing. We're talking about democrats here, who can care less about anyone of these poor souls except for their vote. Got it...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 6/14/2021 11:39:26 AM (No. 815405)
Will a $12B plan put a dent in it?
Truthfully.
No.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 6/14/2021 12:02:41 PM (No. 815424)
Close businesses, outlaw free markets, massively increase costs of energy, housing and everything else, import millions of illegal aliens from foreign countries, and ......VOILA! Dems can recreate the economic disaster of the 30s again. They think Hunger Games was a great idea, and seek to make it a reality.
Democrats are a cancer on our country, and their Marxist, totalitarian, racist insanity destroys everything, with the weakest and most fragile people and businesses first to be crushed under their uncaring, evil bootheels.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hershey 6/14/2021 12:41:57 PM (No. 815477)
They probably used to be in instiutions until the liberals closed them down...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
red1066 6/14/2021 12:55:36 PM (No. 815486)
Here's the solution. Send them south to Mexico and Central America. For every illegal that comes across the border, the countries south of the border gets a homeless person.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/14/2021 1:10:39 PM (No. 815501)
Many of them have untreated mental illnesses that they self-medicate with illegal street drugs. Open up the state mental health hospitals again (instead of slapping the only violent ones in prison), and you'd probably solve a hefty percentage of the problem. When the state institutions were closed, the assumption was that the mentally-ill could just be treated as outpatients with the new and powerful anti-psychotic drugs and they could function in society. The problem is they can't (or won't) take their drugs reliably. So they wind up on the streets, living in tents.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
danu 6/14/2021 1:16:55 PM (No. 815506)
The Salem Witch Trials were based upon the tittle-tattle of frightened children; they barrelled on to become an unstoppable reign of terror and lurid executions.
Remarkably, the unstoppable was stopped, immediately, when the Governor's own wife was accused of witchcraft.
Imagine, if you will, that the wives-and mistresses-of those callous judges and politicians were to be surrounded by pestilential tent cities --at home, at work, at the posh boutiques.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 6/14/2021 1:58:39 PM (No. 815528)
The politicians will get their vig, but the majority of the money will go into the Homeless Industry made up of social workers and all those people with $100,000 degrees in some type of "studies". They will spend millions on "Homeless Shelters" that offer "a wide array of services", which means signing up "clients" for government programs. The mentally ill, drug addicted and marginal people are the "customers" for the Marxist Communist "business" of enslavement.
If the China Virus was so deadly, why did we not see the wholesale deaths in homeless camps that occurred in nursing homes? According to Drs. Fauxi and Scarf the "homeless" problem should have been solved by the Grim Reaper.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 6/14/2021 3:56:15 PM (No. 815623)
Most are drunks, drug addicts, mentally ill and just bums......many check three of the four boxes.
They should be in jails, mental institutions and just rousted to 'move on' so that they can find some other place to mess up with their miserable existences, which most of them have chosen and do not want to be changed.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
chance_232 6/14/2021 5:20:11 PM (No. 815690)
12 billion...... of that, maybe a billion will actually go to someone not a grossly overcharging contractor,, politician or bureaucrat.
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Dr Drew has been warning about the insect and rodent infestations for a long time. Eventually it will spread. In the meantime, when you take 500 homeless off the street, 1,000 more show up to take their place.