US sees biggest EVER spike in homelessness as country sees a record 11% increase in a year to nearly 600,000 rough sleepers: San Francisco and Oakland are 'hotbeds' with 'drug tourists' flocking to the cities

Daily Mail ^ | 8/14/23 | Claudia Aoraha

[Libloather]

The United States has seen the biggest ever spike in homeless people living on the streets - as preliminary figures showed a record 11 percent increase in one year.

There are nearly 600,000 rough sleepers across cities and towns in America, and the jump from 2022 to 2023 so far is the highest since the government started tracking the data in 2007, according to the WSJ.

Places like Oakland and San Francisco in California have become hotbeds for homelessness, as people living on the streets are like 'drug tourists' who arrive to have easy access to narcotics.

The numbers keep increasing year-on-year in Los Angeles and Seattle too.

Using data from 300 entities that count the number of homeless people in different vicinities, the WSJ estimated 577,000 people are sleeping rough so far this year, compared with 582,462 in the whole of 2022.

Last year's total was up dramatically from the 380,630 recorded in 2021 - a total the WSJ says is lower because of pandemic counting disruptions.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to publish formal figures this year, but the preliminary study has shown how the issues of crime, drug abuse, and lack of housing has exacerbated the number of homelessness.

And the chronic homeless number for 2022 - categorized as people who have a disabling condition who have been unhoused for a year or more - was 138,361.

This was up from 64,278 in 2021 - again thought to be lower than normal due to pandemic counting disruptions.

During the pandemic, there were relief programs in place across the US to ease the burden of housing issues - including eviction bans for renters - but now with these schemes petering out, homelessness has become a more acute problem.

[Libloather]

On the bright side, tourism is up.

[Paladin2]

Embrace the suck, ‘Rat Urban Utopias.

You voted and asked for it.

[Cobra64]

Great platform for Gavin Slick Newsom to run on. Aunt Nancy is proud of her, and her nephew’s accomplishments over the years.

[pepsionice]

I would suggest...besides the drug-tourists...a fair number were mentally incompetent or paranoid schizophrenic types who also figured out that warmer temperatures and law enforcement, allowed them to just hang out.

The key factor here, the inability of state leadership will dissolve tax revenue...meaning cuts somewhere down the line will occur.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I wouldn't call San Francisco particularly warm. The drugs and homosexual debauchery are the main draw.

[himno hero]

The full tilt obamanation.

It used to be America the beautiful, quickly becoming an African shittole.

[LouAvul]

You people do understand what “enabling” means, right? Or, are you all terminally stupid? I know that applies to FR’s libertarians, but the rest of you? Really?

[Red6]

It’s interesting to see what the news talks about a lot.

[popdonnelly]

California, the Democrat Paradise.

[maddog55]

Never heard of rough sleeper to describe “someone whou sleeps out doors rough, usually homeless”. Guess that’s like undocumented alien...

On the other hand I have a nice home, great bed but I sleep rough. I toss and turn all night so I’m offended by being lumped into the same category as homeless people 🤣

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "US sees biggest EVER spike in homelessness as country sees a record 11% increase in a year to nearly 600,000 rough sleepers: San Francisco and Oakland are 'hotbeds' with 'drug tourists' flocking to the cities"

Being "drug tourists," it seems these folks are actually making rational and self-serving economic decisions. Go to where the product is. Go to where the funding is.

They seem to be able to find the products and services they want. Quite rational.

Where's the news about these homeless in the middle of the Mojave desert or atop some mountain pass in winter? They are not nuts. From an economic decision-making perspective.

[SaveFerris]

The decline of the USA has been quite rapid since the national debut of Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama

[dfwgator]

When somebody says they’re going to fundamentally transform America, believe them.

[SaveFerris]

(When somebody says they’re going to fundamentally transform America, believe them.)

Absolutely

I witnessed fools worshipping that clown.

Many still do.

I saw somebody exclaim: “I think he’s a Christian!”

He was supposed to know his stuff about Bible Prophecy, too. 🙄🙄🙄

😳😳😨😮🤯🙀😱😱

It was like the Strong Delusion had arrived.

THEN they gave him The Nobel Peace Prize for “future Middle East Peace”

Henry Kissinger comes along and says: “Obama is perfectly positioned to create a New World Order”

Of course, Globalist Neocon George W Bush jumped right on board with Team Obama

7 years earlier, I would have believed less than half of that would happen in such a short time

But that is exactly what happened

✝️🙏🛐

[Jolla]

I am still on summer holiday, wife got home a couple of weeks ago, said a homeless encampment has sprung up on her daily walk route. North Dallas, Frisco, Plano. Unbelievable.

[1Old Pro]

The United States has seen the biggest ever spike in homeless people living on the streets

The Biden success story continues

[xp38]

Time to reroute that walk

[DCBryan1]

So, if I were to charter a bus and take our druggies, homeless, and crazies off the street from a middle sized southern city (cold winters, hot summers), where would you bus them?

I'm thinking L.A., SF, Portland, Oakland, or Seattle.

[himno hero]

And in the meantime, Biden (and the obamanites) are pushing for more immigrants!

They should wakeup and deal with America and Americans first.

[Vaduz]

Biden’s importing the homeless mentally unfit and criminals is working to degrade the American way of life for the socialism agenda.