Epidemic of Homelessness in California

In 1979 the NAACP had a lawsuit claiming that zoning laws on house sizes was racially discriminatory, they withdrew the lawsuit when Cotter Pin passed the Community Reinvestment Act. Democrats have for years been against affordable housing; see the 2000 square foot requirements in majority black DEMOCRAT hoods.

 

As a Canadian I've never seen a homeless camp in my life. I'm sure there's some, it's a large country, but they're rare enough that you'll never see any unless you went out of your way to find one. There's no warm province they can move to, they have to find housing somewhere inside the country. I think the lack of camps is due to welfare, which is a monthly cash payment the unemployed/unemployable can receive. They can spend it whichever way they want, it's enough to rent a cheap room and buy food.

In the US you only give them a food card, and I'd be surprised if your public housing was fulfilling even 10% of the need. So what do you expect? They end up on the street. It seems to me that Americans collectively made the choice to live in a culture of cut-throat competition, where the weak get their heads figuratively chopped off. Got cancer? Medical bills, bankruptcy. Need education to rise out of poverty? OK, here's your 100K$ bill. Got mental illness? Here's your food card, here's the sidewalk. Maybe it has to do with the fact the US is diverse and fragmented, you don't really like your neighbour so you're not interested at all in helping them.

 

Like I said, every church has outreach to the poor.

 

Crazy stuff.

The economy boomed in the 80's under Reagan.

 

There sure are, but just a small fraction of what they have in California.

 

Yes there are, but the problem in California is 1,000x worse.

 

It helps when liberal/socialist progressives run the state, and give them noble status.

 

We have no public homelessness around here. All the homeless poeple live in the Homeless Shelter and we never see them.

 

The homeless situation here in California has been exacerbated by Obamacare.

 

Gee, here's a big story in the LA Times.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-slow-homelessness-spending-20180325-story.html

 

How is that? It certainly exploded during an historic economic crisis created by Republican economic principles. They were calling an area near Sacramento, Hooverville, as the tent city went up.

 

Mandatory drug treatment.
Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties combined have thousands of methadone clinics that roll out the red carpet and dole out the dope and services. Lots of these people are reportedly from out of state. When the insurance runs out, they are booted into the Santa Ana river. This is big business here, not really providing quality service or treatment, just bilking the tax payer.

 

Because there are more of them. Texas didn’t have its housing market collapse like California did.

 

Thanks in part to ridiculous environmental/sustainable development policies, housing is absurdly expensive in most of California's metropolitan areas....

now combine that with the fact that southern California's year-around pleasant weather makes it a destination state for people who've opted to live outdoors....

and with the fact that they've established a comparatively robust welfare system that takes virtually all comers, no questions asked...

and with the fact that Cali is junkie friendly -- they've established needle exchanges and 'safe injection' establishments that provide all the necessary accouterments for the discerning heroin addict...

and with the fact they've never met an impoverished illegal immigrant they won't provide safe-sanctuary from federal immigration laws.

Perfect storm.

 

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The housing market collapsed in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Arizona. They don't have homeless camps on every street. Just California. It's third world.

 

New Jersey has homeless, most homeless from Connecticut would move to the NYC metro area, and Arizona in fact does have homeless too.

 

your hero created homelessness and Reaganvilles:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...2dc-bb55-5d189a0ee947/?utm_term=.b6bc6de3a54a

 

In NYC Republicans fought against rent control and promoted gentrification which forces the poor to move from their homes while the rich reap the benefits of their policies.

 

your hero Osteen was forced into helping the poor:


https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-p...big-reason-why-americans-are-fleeing-religion


same with all those other religious Pharisees

 

Hilarious.

Reagan corrected a bad economy he inherited from Jimmy.

 

Nothing is as bad as California. It's the Brazil of North America.

 

Mostly because California doesn’t authorize the police to simply arrest poor people for being poor.

 

well here is some data

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/1...lip-through-cracks-disjointed-support-system/

 

Carter inherited a mess from Ford. Reagan's economy rebounded after he screwed it with unemployment numbers that were higher than under Carter: