Posted on 06/23/2019 8:57:09 AM PDT by Hojczyk
As Los Angeles County grapples with a growing homeless population, San Diego has managed to get more people off the streets and into shelters, according to San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer..
The homeless count is] down 6 percent county-wide,” he told FOX Business’ Stuart Varney Opens a New Window. on Friday. “It really is about challenging the bureaucracies that have been entrenched in the status quo and doing things differently.”
By comparison, Los Angeles County homelessness spiked 12 percent over the past year.
“One of the things that we are doing in San Diego, that I think is really having a dramatic effect of getting people off the street is, we’ve established bridge shelters with help and wraparound services. A storage center for belongings that is helping to clean up our streets and our sidewalks. And really a sense of our overall attitude that says a sidewalk or a tarp or a riverbed is no place for a home,” he explained.
Although the effort has been costly, Faulconer believes “its money well spent.”
“I just signed our budget yesterday – over $3 billion in San Diego and one line item alone for helping to clean up our sidewalks, remove trash, my “Clean SD” program, is $10 million," he said. "I feel strongly about this. I feel passionately about this—that’s how you have to run a major American city. We care about the cleanliness—we care about our environment—and we care about getting people off the street and ensuring that that’s happening.”
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If only they had laws on this...
And enforced them.
Probably BS...
Where I live...
The cops pick them up after a couple of days...
There sent to a mental health clinic..can only keep them ten days..
If they agree they go to the Salvation Army for rehab
then Catholic Charities which was a work program
IF they go back to the street the process starts all over..
Some you will see over and over for a while and then there gone
Must have been rehabed or they moved to another area
If the mayor thinks reducing the number of homeless is a good thing, his political future among Democrats may be in jeopardy.
Homelessness, drug addiction, these are problems that are not meant to be solved but to go on endlessly as a continued drag upon a productive society a way to confiscate more and more tax dollars under the banner of compassion.
Fox, "Fair and Balanced" my ass, more like timid or worse, effectively compromised.
They did the same thing in SF, Portland and Seattle.
They always come back as they get free stuff and drugs
So, you have no compassion for addicts and mentally ill? Shouldn’t humans have an air mattress and a blanket at least? Jesus, come on.
Or passed away, OD, move away, etc.. But then new ones will replace them. Sad. What a mess the communist/dems have created.
Some you will see over and over for a while...
You need a "rehab" bar with bunks and bathrooms where they can "sleep it off" instead of going back to the streets & jail.
...and then they're gone
Many are dead!
Been watching this cycle for fifty years.
The City of San Diego tolerates it. Neighboring cities in San Diego County do not. The bums in National City and Chula Vista are told or know that they are welcome in downtown San Diego and they hop on the trolley and go there. You don’t see bums on the street in low income National City. I wonder why? Across the bay in Coronado you see no vagrants. The Coronado PD picks them and drive them across the bridge to San Diego. Faulconer is a putz.
The problem there is they did take them of the streets..
They were letting them commit petty crimes..
So the druggies and homeless moved there..
Now the numbers are to great and they do not want to do what it takes to get them of the street
In fact... it is not against the law to sleep on the street in California
Sorry, I must have not understood. I have a close relation who can’t do for himself and it makes me hyper sensitive about the homeless situation. Although I have had referrals from judges and lots of wealthy people, I can’t arrange help for this person. It is so sad.
“Must have been rehabed or they moved to another area.”
Or dead.
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I was visiting San Diego last week, man, there’s a lot of homeless people out on the streets.
Meanwhile, up here in the Sacramento area, homeless people are digging into our levees to make level ground for their tarp tents and our elected officials and law enforcement don’t do a damn thing about it.
Oh, give me a break! Humans should act like humans and not animals! Accepting this crazy behavior is what has brought us to where we are today.
...after increasing 300% the past decade.
Is it against the law to sleep on the street anywhere in the US of A? Weren’t all those “archaic and inhumane” vagrancy laws all taken off the books or not enforced?
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