'California Is the Future'

I travel all over the country. I have witnessed first hand the amount of degradation the homeless inflict on any area they inhabit.

The squatting on private property, obstructing businesses, overtaking recreational areas, the massive piles of trash, the excrement, the needles, the harassing conduct, the thievery, the vandalism, the sense of entitlement, and the violence.

The homeless in all the areas I have been are the most OVER served demographic. Yet, all the good and services provided and money thrown at the issue has not mitigated the problem or reduced the numbers living in the streets. The volume increases.

This seems to NOT be the model to continue following in the effort to eradicate homelessness.

Austerity measures? If need be.

🤔 I'm not sure I have heard any complaining from the homeless about their plight or situation...I e. clamoring for housing. I have heard complaints about the quality, quantity, or menu choices of the free meals they are provided. Even seen much of the food items discarded unopened and/or untouched. Not isolated incidents, recurrent widespread happenings.

I used to live in southern CA where homelessness is rampant and as far as you can see in every direction. The real problem is not at all a homeless problem, it is a massive drug abuse problem. In southern CA, the homeless people are not poor or just hit "hard" times, they are all 100% drug addicts and have burned every bridge they have. Until groups that truly want to help address it as a drug problem, the homeless population will continue to rapidly increase.

I absolutely agree. People still think it is a single mom who couldn't make the rent or some poor troubled mind that can't live independently.

To add to the validity of your statement - their families are not making any efforts in getting them off the streets.

Best estimate - half a million in California alone

consider the drug addicts strewn all over southern California have already strained or broken all their family and friendships relationships to be where they are. Most are beyond help because of the damage already done to their brain, but what they need is drug rehab, not another soup kitchen.

I cannot disagree with anything you are saying with the exception of the drug rehab.

Drug rehab is rarely successful. And the few successes are rarely sustained.

Not saying no junkie gets clean. I am saying the rate of sobriety will be so low that it won't make a noticeable difference in the population.

A few out, a few thousand in.

There is some reason they are provided free needles, free narcan, and $600+ cash per month yet someone with a life threatening allergy can't get a free EpiPen.

Why? It can't be concern for people's well being.

Perhaps self annihilation? Provide them with all the tools to permanently remove themselves from society? Provide narcan just to make it look good?

You know the most common first words of a person revived after administered narcan?

"What did you do that for".

They're angry that you ruined their high. And, as is their right, they get up and leave. Not every single one, yet so often you'd say "everybody" in casual conversation.

I think if all the money is being wasted keeping drug addicted homeless people addicted, then it could be wasted on a permanent home solution in a health care facility like an asylum. Homeless people are dangerous to themselves by abusing drugs, and are dangerous to others including society. They are detrimental to the environment and create hostility in communities around them. They need an asylum to live in where they are not allowed to use drugs, and receive healthcare for drug addiction.

Is there hope for the junkie? Idk. Some of them are just trying to die. Maybe voluntary assisted suicide as an option? Idk… we all hope it will get better, but all the money in the world won’t help if junkies can’t stop using drugs. So the only thing that worked in the past was asylum for the troubled, still that backfired, lots of innocent people died. And we’re not junkies. But homeless facilities with permanent drug rehab, or oversight on drug use might not be a bad idea. If drugs are administered to old people why not have a homeless care facility….. but I totally also agree the regular people need free access to life saving medications like the Epipin or insulin…. So many other health care options that bankrupt the poor and middle class.

As long as CA continues a co-dependency attitude toward drug use and mental illness, this will go on. Truly helping those in need does not involve assisting in life-threatening behavior or lifestyles.

Yup... Kommifornia has the largest homeless population

Yes California politicians are enablers. The people any rehab will tell you need to cut you off unless you get clean.