Posted on 02/21/2022 6:22:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Currently, Sacramento County has 37 portable toilets available for an estimated 10,000 homeless people. That’s about 270 people per port-a-potty. They could be removed in June when funding for their upkeep runs out, said county spokeswoman Kim Nava.
The county’s portable toilet program is fairly new. It dates to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, when officials put out 50 port-a-potties near homeless camps. Thirteen have been removed since then. The county also put out 50 water stations, but has so far removed 21. Some of the toilets and water stations were damaged or went missing, and the county did not replace them.
The lack of public restrooms is not just a problem for the unhoused community, but for many Sacramento residents. Business owners frequently share horror stories about showing up to work in the morning to be greeted by human feces on their doorsteps. Homeowners in all neighborhoods, including those with kids, complain about unhoused people using their front yards as bathrooms.
“I can’t tell you how many times a week I get an email talking about human feces,” said Councilwoman Katie Valenzuela, who represents the central city and East Sacramento. She wants the county to continue providing portable toilets near homeless camps.
The restrooms also represent an environmental concern, as it’s possible some excrement from the roughly 2,000 unhoused people who live along the American River Parkway ends up in the river.
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Oh, they mean the toilets...
If your getting that many complaints it tells me you aren't doing your job.
Those 37 portable toilets probably cost the city a huge amount of money. Governments overpay for everything.
Yeah like homeless care if they have a conventional toilet to use.
There could be 3 crappers for every one of ‘em I doubt it would matter.
Sacramento IS a Portable toilet so what’s the problem?
Hand out free fentanyl laced heroin.
37 toilets will be plenty.
If you’re getting so many complaints, stop catering to their every need? I would wager that 90% are homeless by choice. Stop giving them that choice.
There needs to be mental institutions and prison like rehab/detox facilities.
I bet there are more than 10,000 job openings in Sacramento. And they could be filled by the right job applicant.
The real takeaway for me is that there’s 10,000 homeless in Sacramento.
Bring back the institutions. Fund them with all the handout/toilet/cleanup money and save a bundle while actually treating the mentally ill rather than abandoning them to the streets.
According to the Covid fear porn spewed by Greasy Newsom & his Nazi health goons, Covid is so highly infectious, so deadly, and a danger to the citizens of CA that mandates have been extended time and time again, why aren’t all the Greasy Newsom homeless not dead by now? Consider their close living quarters and the fact that most are not jabbed? Hmmm, could the jabs be a cover for gaining total power & control over the citizens of California and have nothing to do with their bioweapon Covid?
Because there’s nothing quite like taking a break in a half-full port-a-potty that’s been out in the sun a few days.
It’s either that or your nice, fresh-mowed lawn. Tough choice.
If you have ever used a portable toilet, you know they are all gross. These have to be some of the worst, and it sounds like some may have been stolen. Who would steal that?!
“a half-full port-a-potty that’s been out in the sun a few days”
Living in Florida I’ve had to use one of those under those conditions on many occasions......it’s called “speed pooping”.
Welcome to California ... Hell on Earth
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When portable toilets were introduced into LA’s homeless population, they were immediately used as houses of prostitution.
“Sacramento IS a Portable toilet so what’s the problem?”
Winner!
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