Did you know that on any given night in LA 59,000 people sleep on the streets? Or that the death rate among Los Angeles homeless has been climbing steadily to over 1,000 annually? Homeless in Los Angeles are 15 times more likely to be murdered than those fortunate enough to have a place to live. And that’s just Los Angeles, estimates vary in San Francisco, but one figure has the homeless population there at 17,595.
If that many lost their home by natural disaster in the South or Midwest or the same number of deaths been caused by an evil corporation, the hue and cry from the political left (the press and office holding democrats) would be deafening.
But this is crisis in bluest of blue California and none of the loudest voices on the left want to make it an issue. Apparently, realizing that crisis can’t be ignored forever, California’s elites met recently to formulate an answer.
At a housing policy summit on Friday, Mayor Eric Garcetti declared that residents of California no longer have just a “right to shelter” but the “right to housing” as well. More
Yeah, that’ll fix it. Keep up the good work there, mayor. – Dr. Tar
As Seattle goes, so goes California and then the rest of the nation …
KOMO-TV “Seattle Is Dying”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
No one has a “right” to the fruits of another’s labor. To say that is true would mean that people are not entitled to the fruits of one’s own labor. You cannot have it both ways. Yes, people may have a responsibility towards other people, but a responsibility on your part does not, in this case, equal a right on mine.
It is the same as comparing equality in opportunity and opportunity in outcome. You cannot have both at the same time.
@Chi Guy: could that be because Seattle is populated with California ex-pats?
I work with the homeless in San Jose, CA. A majority of them agree that they are homeless because of drugs and alcohol and mental illness. They have stories of being given a place to live and destroying it because they still are addicted or unstable. I try to help with the addiction part but many find it easier to use on the streets then live in the real world. That is a paraphrase from men I have worked with.
Chi Guy, you’ve got that backward, every hair-brained lunatic idea about social justice was incubated right here on the streets of SF or LA, then migrated to other prog cities; ANTIFA started here, free speech zones started here, free welfare and voting rights for illegals started here, hell, even the idea of paying college players (which the NCAA first fought tooth and nail, then rolled over like a scolded dog) started right here in California.
@TNRWC Is this a law enforcement problem then? Do we need to return to asylums for the mentally ill, including those helplessly addicted to drugs.
It would seem the incentive to live on the streets do drugs and break property laws needs to be taken away.
Hey dummycrats, a lack of foresight on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
The dirty Dem politicians that infest Comifornia surely do believe that empty rhetoric and slogans will feed and house a multitude of hungry people!
@Dr. Tar November 24, 2019 at 2:32 pm
Because that whole “property rights”, when it applies to the government’s property, is so… uhm… socialist?
Owning a home comes from hard work and sweat, We did not win a home owner drawing.
Lest I forget, paying taxes up the ying yang.
Do as much free gubbmit money dope and booze
and you too can die early and high.
It is the inability of being able to commit people, yes. With addiction though you cannot force people to change. However, give them enough reason they will. I worked with same population prior to prop 47 (lessened drug possession from a felony to a misdemeanor). Guys I was working with had 7 years over their heads if they did not get straight. Not all got straight, but there were not tent cities either (that was in 2014). San Diego is doing a combo of help, enforcement and committing the mentally ill that will not stabilize on their own. Their homelessness has gone down. Some of that could be the addicts are moving up north to Orange county or LA. But less is less.
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@Cassandra Shapiro-Dawes November 24, 2019 at 4:58 pm
That was meant for the tentacle porn tab. Wasn’t it?
Also CA: We are building these $700,000 per household shelters; nothing else will do. We know that we could use inexpensive easy-ups, portable shelters, etc. but we refuse to do that. Also, those $700k shelters will not be complete for about 15 years, 25 years if the regulatory sign-offs are slow.
@Left Coast Dan November 24, 2019 at 6:45 pm
> those $700k shelters will not be complete for about 15 years, 25 years if the regulatory sign-offs are slow
It’s the terrain. It’s not like they’re in an area where you can find acres of flat grasslands. All within walking distance of a major city. And just eminent domain, and plunk the trailers down.
Work farms and asylums
Vagrancy laws enforced
The government does not have the right to allow people to shit in the street
Seems like some planning should be done.
The revolution would be more successful if there was an outrageous event of government abuse like the Army systematically shooting 5000 protesters or a stock market crash.
Americans are pretty pacified now. They will tolerate a lot.
The elites also have the media on their side to make the protesters and patriots sound like hooligans and nutjobs.
http://livinghistorysites.com/massachusetts/sites/148-the-shot-heard-round-the-world–first-battle-of-american-revolution–concord-ma.html