Brutal article. They're trying to conduct a violent purge/exile of homeless while dressing it up as caring about them. Give them houses wtf
Give me a house while you're at it.
Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of homeless encampments
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#42Re: Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of homeless encampments
#43To save you a click, the "City in Idaho", which is clearly written to make it sound like a village of like 10 people in the middle of nowhere, is Boise.
Don’t feel so bad, the article is also sounds like it was written by someone who has never been to LA. Skid Row overflowed into Little Tokyo several years ago, creating a new ad hoc neighborhood name “Skid Rokyo”. Oh and the there’s the giant homeless encampments every 1-3 miles as you drive around LA.
I grew up in LA but moved away in 2009. I was shocked when I visited this past year. Homeless encampments everywhere, taking over sidewalks in West LA, kind of scary aggressively homeless men harassing people in the street in West Hollywood. No wonder everyone drives everywhere in LA.
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#44It's an exhausting problem. I live in Portland, which is just another west coast city having increasing trouble with a rising homeless population. On one hand yes, they're people and they deserve help and support and appropriate housing and access to rehab and structure. But on the other hand, if you buy a house in Portland there's very little you can do to prevent your front sidewalk from getting turned into a homeless camp. Having seen first hand how frequently camps are also drug dens, it's really tiring stepping over hundreds of dirty needles and needle-caps when you leave every morning. And the smell of piss and shit in every offstreet doorway in the city. When my mom visited we were driving over the Morrison bridge and a homeless man was pissing off the side in broad daylight - not a care in the world.
So yes, help them. But also just do something, anything at all.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless, of course, those women and children are homeless.
Nearly all homeless are adult men.
That isn’t true. First, you have to distinguish between the visible and invisible homeless. Homeless women who aren’t mentally ill or heavily into drugs are very likely to get access to a shelter at least, so you wouldn’t notice them (the same is true for men as well, just less so). And then you have mentally ill or heavily drug addicted women, you notice these in LA also. It isn’t clear to me why there are more men in this category than women, but perhaps they get more family or social support as well.
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#46Woody Guthrie was on to something...
As I went walking I saw a sign there, And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people, By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway; Nobody living can ever make me turn back This land was made for you and me.
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#47Brutal article. They're trying to conduct a violent purge/exile of homeless while dressing it up as caring about them. Give them houses wtf
Tell doctors to stop prescribing heroine.
And the military to stop destroying young men and then sending them out onto the streets with no useful support.
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#48http://archive.is/gNmAt
(Archive link for those who prefer non-broken web experiences or want to avoid supporting publishers that actively want to break the web.)
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#49Re: Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of homeless encampments
#50Brutal article. They're trying to conduct a violent purge/exile of homeless while dressing it up as caring about them. Give them houses wtf
This is not as much a housing issue as it is a mental health and substance abuse issue. See https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-07/homeless...
Not all homeless are homeless because of mental health or substance abuse issues, but those that are homeless for other reasons are more likely to get help so you don’t notice them as much.