Posted on 06/20/2022 2:54:38 AM PDT by Jyotishi
Most of the ones I saw street camping were obviously Americans. The last time I was in California was over a decade ago. Things may have changed.
If you lived there you saw much more than I did.
They will NEVER be “suitably housed” until they are constrained from using drugs.
That was back in the 90s and early 00s. I can’t imagine it is any better now. It definitely seems the homeless problem is worse now than then.
Nope, oldvirginian is right. This is a homegrown problem.
I lived in San Diego for 12 years and it was really America's finest city. You could walk downtown and around Horton Plaza without any reservations. When General Dynamics Convair shut down and the big manufacturing business left the downtown area the lowlife moved in. They used to blame it on homeless Viet Nam vets but that was never true.
The problem is street people of all colors and mixes. Their brains get fried on street drugs and they just gather in groups that have taken over downtown. The root cause isn't immigration, it lax or no enforcement by politicians of basic civic laws.
I was in San Diego week before last. I’ve been back and forth to San Diego many times over the years, but this time I was absolutely appalled. The streets are definitely open sewers. Every block has an average of about 10-15 vagrants and homeless. Drug use is everywhere. My upscale hotel advertised my room as one with a “city view”. The city view I got was a tent city in the vacant lot opposite the hotel.
What is happening to that city is a disgrace.
san fran, LA and San diego now full of homeless and all that come with it..
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