Posted on 03/02/2018 6:35:49 PM PST by jeannineinsd
At the very least, these folks, if mentally impaired, need room/board/shelter/resources other than a hotel. As in a protective environment, so as they don’t harm themselves, or others.
Would you agree?
Leaving them ‘to themselves’ to urinate/defecate/all kinds of -ate in public isn’t the answer either, is it?
Just give them a box lunch, a jug of Thunderbird and a bus ticket to San Francisco.
“At a cost....to house them in a hotel.”
Well that’s entirely thanks to that idiot judge David O. Carter. Otherwise they would have had to find their own places to live just like the rest of us.
“Who are these homeless???”
1/3 drug abusers and crazies. 1/3 ferals who want to camp for free because they can survive by begging and charity. 1/3 criminals.
“In a documentary I recently saw, they mostly appeared to be illegals.”
I haven’t seen many illegals. They are usually good at crowding 20 or 30 into some house or apartment.
The homeless that I see have mostly been white, of all ages. A pal of mine who once was homeless himself because he liked to get drunk takes pity on them and gives them tarps and other small items. Soap, wipes, simple stuff. Anyway he says the homeless now are a harder and more dangerous crowd than he remembers. More are obviously schizophrenic, the folly of expecting them to take their meds outside of a hospital. More have serious drug habits. And of course some are full on criminals.
Yeah, I used to live there too and heard about the wonderful bike trail.... and what happened to it.
I wonder what "incentives" were offered to the hotel/motel owners. Just money, or were there threats?
“At the very least, these folks, if mentally impaired, need room/board/shelter/resources other than a hotel. As in a protective environment, so as they don’t harm themselves, or others.”
They won’t go. And thanks to the brilliance of the Cal legislature back in the late 1960s we cannot involuntarily commit people who are completely crazy. That was, btw, bipartisan stupidity.
‘til we chased you back to LA County.
There’s a lovely little park right next to the library where I used to take my daughter to play. The homeless have overtaken it and just hang around ogling the little ones. No one can bring their children there anymore.
The city just closed it down and put a high covered fence around it. Deviants 1, normies 0.
here is how to solve the homeless problem
1) increase housing supply dramatically by eliminating the vast majority of zoning codes
2) increase US job market by eliminating parasitic gov‘t leeches. Reduce size of gov‘t to 1/7 of its current size.
3) increase amount of take home money low skilled workers keep by eliminating all taxes on first $40,000 of income.
4) Eliminate minimum wage entirely
I agree with you. My little brother is one of these people. He recently had a medical scare and is off the sauce but realy, he doesn’t want to have a job, he just wants to hang out with his surfer buddies, surf, and pick up a few odd jobs here and there for pocket change.
He dresses like a bum and stinks to high heaven. He comes to my house once in a while to take a shower but he’s happy getting free meals from the soup kitchen and doing his thing.
Who am I to deny him his freedom?
So not much hope to be had there, unfortunately. I just wonder about putting them into motels. So they will trash someone’s property (as they collect fees from the government). No good solutions, I suppose. What a shame that people can let themselves get to that point. Very tragic.
Housing for homeless..... motel rooms that go for between $75 and $125 a night...for 400-700 people.
Aw man. Why’d you have to go and do that?
(Today was the 2 year anniversary from dad’s death and the real reason I had to move here, to take care of mom. Went in the STORM [translation from SoCalese: rain] to visit Dad’s grave and deliver his yearly m&ms. Plain and peanut. Gave my grandparents and great aunts and uncles some too.)
“I just wonder about putting them into motels. “
That was forced on the county by the do-gooder idiot of a judge.
Ah, I didn’t know the real reason that you moved. Sorry it was about the loss of your dad.
#2 Even homeless the people divide themselves with those that have a better view in the ‘hills’ to those ‘poorer’ people living in the flatland below them....
Death sentences for opioid manufacture and distribution is the answer. Drugs destroyed america.
I’ve never in my life seen hobo jungles like in the warehouse flats east of downtown LA
1000s of tents on sidewalks
Sounds like my own youth
DO NOT STAY IN MOTELS IN THE AREA. THAT IS WHERE THIS MESS WAS RELOCATED.
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