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Easy...CD is going to cry.
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“[Housing First] is a dogmatic philosophy,” said Bales. “I’ve lost friends. One of my closest friends is attacking me for pushing for housing that costs $11,000 instead of $527,000 per person. He can’t get that we can't provide a $527,000 to $700,000 apartment for each person on the street. I’ve been in planning meetings where people said, ‘Everybody deserves a granite countertop,’ but that isn’t going to work for 44,000 people.”
Well, the crony capitalist developers are happy to build $527,000 condos for the mentally ill and meth and opoid addicts as a solution that makes leftards feel good about providing housing for the homeless. What do you think a $527,000 condo would go for after a meth addict lived in it for a year - and surrounded by other meth addict and crazy ass neighbors? You could pile the money up in a bundle and burn it as heating source and accomplish the same thing. -
Today, many of California’s leading homelessness advocates insist that the current crisis is due mostly to the housing shortage.
Homelessness experts and advocates disagree. “I’ve rarely seen a normal able-bodied able-minded non-drug-using homeless person who’s just down on their luck,” L.A. street doctor Susan Partovi told me. “Of the thousands of people I’ve worked with over 16 years, it’s like one or two people a year. And they’re the easiest to deal with.” Rev. Bales agrees. “One hundred percent of the people on the streets are mentally impacted, on drugs, or both,” he said.
Most of the time what people mean by the homelessness problem is really a drug problem and a mental illness problem. ”The problem is we don’t know if you’re psychotic or just on meth,” said Dr. Partovi. “And giving it up is very difficult. I worked in the local jail, and half of the inmates in the women’s jail were Latinas in their 20s, and all were in there for something related to meth.”
We can't even be honest about the reasons why we're seeing an increase in homelessness.
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The people who work directly with the homeless say things worsened after California abandoned the “carrot and stick” approach toward treating the severely mentally ill and drug addicts who are repeat offenders. “The ACLU will come after me if I say the mentally ill need to be taken off the street,” said Dr. Partovi, “so let me be clear that they need to be taken care of, too.”
Bales says things worsened ten years ago when L.A. and other California cities rejected drug recovery (treatment) as a condition of housing. “When the ‘Housing First’ with a harm reduction model people came in they said ‘Recovery doesn’t work,’” said Bales. “But it was after that when homelessness exploded exponentially.”
Bales says people have little incentive to do treatment when there is no threat of jail time. “[The Housing First harm reduction advocates] talked about new services, but they were all voluntary.” Things went further in this direction with the passage of Proposition 47 in 2016, which decriminalized hard drugs and released nonviolent offenders from prison without providing after-care support. “Our guests went from 12 - 17% addicted to 50% or higher,” Bales says. “Policymakers need to understand that if you allow the use, you also allow the sales, and if you allow the sales, then you allow the big guys to break your legs when you owe them money,” says Bales. -
Leftards once again dealing in a world where the sky isn't blue and feelings replace facts. It's almost like they don't really care.
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I almost became homeless in 2014 and it had nothing to do with luck or meth. Just a decade long mid life crisis and poor decisions
As I am pulling myself back up I often had to put more in the gas column to get to work which was vital for the comeback and less in the grocery column that week. Hence my implacable hatred of climate change mother fuckers who are hurting the poor every day.
Rents are high and buying a house is high because of excessive regulation which does hurt the non meth addicted working poor family. Be proud all you scared little bitches with your green fantasies
I'm back and I am going to fight you to the ends of time. From hell's heart I stab at thee -
Well, what Cali definitely needs is more illegal aliens and chain migration. Cali has 1/8 of the US population and 1/3 of the welfare cases. But banning plastic straws and sky high gas and utility bills along with unaffordable housing is clearly the solution.
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If I like my typhus, can I keep it?
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Everyone deserves a granite counter top! Lol. Utopia.
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We should ban drugs.SFGbob said:Today, many of California’s leading homelessness advocates insist that the current crisis is due mostly to the housing shortage.
Homelessness experts and advocates disagree. “I’ve rarely seen a normal able-bodied able-minded non-drug-using homeless person who’s just down on their luck,” L.A. street doctor Susan Partovi told me. “Of the thousands of people I’ve worked with over 16 years, it’s like one or two people a year. And they’re the easiest to deal with.” Rev. Bales agrees. “One hundred percent of the people on the streets are mentally impacted, on drugs, or both,” he said.
Most of the time what people mean by the homelessness problem is really a drug problem and a mental illness problem. ”The problem is we don’t know if you’re psychotic or just on meth,” said Dr. Partovi. “And giving it up is very difficult. I worked in the local jail, and half of the inmates in the women’s jail were Latinas in their 20s, and all were in there for something related to meth.”
We can't even be honest about the reasons why we're seeing an increase in homelessness.
