California homelessness? (San Jose, Eureka: RV parks, transplants, lawyers)

[Racer46]

Originally Posted by skeddy

what a great place to be homeless, they have so many free programs and the weather is so nice in the Southern areas. Why live anywhere else in that circumstance?

And the police will do nothing about it and their illegal actions and drug use. This is not the case in every State, but for sure in the PNW. Other States also follow these same practices.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by mr peanut

most of the homeless Ive seen never had a job to begin with they are bums, they are not recent they have been this way for years


homeless is a lifestyle , a lot of them they prefer to live on the street


I would say it's a lot more than 25% being chronically homeless

You would say … based on what? Your anecdotal observations? Lol.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by skeddy

what a great place to be homeless, they have so many free programs and the weather is so nice in the Southern areas. Why live anywhere else in that circumstance?

Yeah. It’s great to live on the street foraging for food with the rats, sleeping on concrete that smells of urine, looking over your shoulder trying to avoid rape or other assault, wondering if someone will steal your only shoes at night, no place to relieve yourself in private, no place to shower and shave ….

As Jimmy Stewart said: “It’s a wonderful life!”

[shelato]

Originally Posted by mr peanut

why do you think CA has the highest numbers of homeless? they cant all be locals , some come here for the weather, some for the benefits , some because welfare pays better in CA then where they came from


if you ever watched a youtube show called LEES CHANNEL he interviews a lot of homeless, and many are not locals they came to SF from other places.

Homelessneess is also much higher among sexual minorities. If you are gay or trans and you get kicked out of the house for that where do you think you might try to go?

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.e...melessness-us/

[2011KTM530]

When I worked in California, I had to deal with the homeless. In my informal way, I always asked they why didn’t they take advantage of the free shelters or substance abuse centers. They always told me either they didn’t like the “rules” at those places..no smoking, no drug use, no drinking, no fighting, no cussing, no dogs. Or, they just wanted to get high or drunk or both. So the homeless made a choice, they really don’t want help. They like their lifestyle. Just letting you know when they said.

[Synchromesh]

What's really happening, people, is that homeless are a *huge* cash-generating machine for the cities and California alike. I live in San Francisco and we spent nearly half of a *billion* dollars on them last year and the problem didn't go away at all. The way it works seems to be something like this - for every homeless person they spent money (let's say $50K) the state/city keep about $47K and maybe spend $3K on the actual person. Why do you think we have all those non-profits?

So with that in mind ask yourself, if the city had a huge amount of funds coming in that can feed both it and other places why would they give it up? So they do absolutely nothing to treat the root cause, just mildly alleviate the symptoms. This problem will not go away any time soon.

How many mental patient clinics can a city build with $500M? I figure quite a few. But they won't do it.

[apple92680]

Originally Posted by Synchromesh

What's really happening, people, is that homeless are a *huge* cash-generating machine for the cities and California alike. I live in San Francisco and we spent nearly half of a *billion* dollars on them last year and the problem didn't go away at all. The way it works seems to be something like this - for every homeless person they spent money (let's say $50K) the state/city keep about $47K and maybe spend $3K on the actual person. Why do you think we have all those non-profits?

So with that in mind ask yourself, if the city had a huge amount of funds coming in that can feed both it and other places why would they give it up? So they do absolutely nothing to treat the root cause, just mildly alleviate the symptoms. This problem will not go away any time soon.

How many mental patient clinics can a city build with $500M? I figure quite a few. But they won't do it.

Unfortunately, I think you're onto something.

There's a whole broad sector of organizations that now receive funding for "homeless outreach", "homeless services", "mental health" etc.

These are largely non-profit organizations who got in on the "homelessness" craze and saw $$$ with government funding set aside to address the issue.

We're going on four years of this "homeless crisis" now, which started long before Covid came into the picture. Nothing's changed.

And why would it? Especially if keeping a large homeless population means that these organizations have a large "clientele" and can keep asking for more funds from the county, state and federal governments.

Getting people housed and lowering the homeless population would mean that these organizations would have to find a new "cause" and a new way to leech money from the government.

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by mr peanut

Yes, it's very bad all over CA , there is a homeless camp right across the street , you cant get rid of them , the police cant do anything unless the property owner makes a complaint , and there is a lot of empty lots where they camp , lots of trash , abandoned vehicles , stripped vehicles , fires , drug use , drug sales , they leave a path of destruction everywhere they go


These people are organized , they all band together and form some type of homeless union, most of the ones in my area are drug addicts, meth users , criminals , tweakers , they never sleep and roam the neighborhood all night long


every town , every city has them , CA has the highest homeless population in the USA , they come in from all over.

California has the largest overall population of any state by far.

Why would it surprise you if California has the largest homeless population?

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by mr peanut

CA has the highest homeless population in the USA

The District of Columbia, Hawaii and New York have higher rates of homelessness than California does.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...e-us-by-state/

[ysr_racer]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

The District of Columbia, Hawaii and New York have higher rates of homelessness than California does.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...e-us-by-state/

And ?