Hulk
4. My home town, Portland, OR is in the same mess
It looks like a campground near freeways, under bridges, in neighborhoods. It’s really sad and frightening. So much mental illness and addicted zombies in these tent communities. Many are irresponsible and create all sorts of problems for the neighborhoods they infest.
Unless
Hulk is a long-termer (s)he's looking for a granite pizza, speaking so much truth!
Achilleaze
8. republicans accept full reponsibility
oh, wait, I forgot. They are republicans. They don't do responsibility. They are blaming someone else for their fail, as usual.
former9thward
13. What Republicans are running LA?
Homelessness is a local issue. What use is local and state government if they can't address a local problem?
The
Land of LA has been Dem-controlled for decades. Ditto SF. Much the same with CA's legislature, and considering that
Ahhhnold was the Dems' pet RINO, pretty much the same with the Governor's office. Own it, Proggies, your girls and boys attracted, subsidized, and exploited the
Sacred Homeless for political gain, and now the piper is handing you the bill.
Dream Girl
30. They're right. Try living around it for a while and you will agree. I work in SF
Conditions are horrible. Tent cities in alleyways. Poop on sidewalks. I used to live in SF now in the burbs. I don't even recognize parts of this beautiful city. Parts of it are like dystopian nightmare...
Dream Girl
57. So it's not the high rent prices that are making them homeless?
Truth is homeless people do move here because it's more liveable from a climate and benefits standpoint. In SF, they receive a small stipend from the city. Word gets around...
I assume
Dream Girl is a true-blue Prog and all that, but she's something DUpipo should always fear in discussions like this. She's lived with it, and she's will to be honest about it.
The only reason SJ is not close to the conditions of SF and LA is that we have a small river and a creek or two along which the
Sacred Homeless camp, crap, and accumulate junk. It's to the point that their encampments are partly visible on Google Maps Satellite View, where they are not hidden under trees.
Part of the problem, subsidizing and enabling the bum-lifestyle can be changed. But until the mental health laws that make it almost impossible to deal with the mentally ill and chemical addicts are changed, progress will be limited. I realize those laws were changed in the 60s and 70s because of very real abuses, but the pendulum was swung to the opposite extreme, with foreseeable results.