It’s also important to note that, while Texas and Florida have reduced homelessness, their systems aren’t perfect either.
Dr. Shankar-Brown said Florida has some of the worst and most inhumane practices where cities sweep people to the outskirts of town and throw their belongings away. It is something she said parts of California do as well.
California is investing in so many hotels, but there are people who don’t want to go into shelter or housing no matter what.
Have you seen pics of California’s homeless camps? Is anyone going to argue that’s humane?
I went for walking in the park this weekend. There was this guy sleeping there. I couldn’t stay at home without heater this weekend and was wondering how he/she was surviving there.
Homeless camps don’t have any rules, it’s the rule of the jungle there, whoever has the bigger stick/muscle wins, and your property can be taken away any time.
No it’s not. CA not doing a great job addressing the issue but was just pointing out FL didn’t reduce by proper planning. Just throwing them away to outskirts is not a solution.
The numbers were whole state. So they count as homeless whether they are in a city or not.
Maybe the Florida homeless are moving to CA.
I’m skeptical given the state like FL. If they are really doing some magic that’s good.
All most places need to do is get out of the way. Let homes be built and prices will normalize. That and provide economic opportunities for people to work. This whole idea of the government regulating or providing affordable housing is insane when the government is making it so expensive in the first place. It’s been well documented the city fees and permits are $250k/unit to build in SF. That doesn’t count the holding costs for years just to get the permits. It also doesn’t include utility upgrade fees, neighborhood extortion fees to upgrade parks, etc.
Headline says “happiest” but few of the metrics they are using seem to measure happiness.
Let the homeless homestead in the Midwest. Plenty of empty homes. Free for the asking. Just require them to be fixed up to be habitable. SF and other cities could provide subsidies instead of the $40k per year each homeless person costs in services
Great weather?
Forest fire, winter flooding, blackouts…
Picture taken yesterday of Pescadero Rd as it passed through the town. This is maybe 20 miles south of Half Moon Bay for those who don’t know it.
Incredible how San Mateo county gets blindsided by events they know days in advance will happen. We’re having some severe weather here in north central AZ as well but all the equipment necessary to make repairs was parked near vulnerable areas yesterday and the day before. Streams subject to flooding get cleared out - no eco-wackos standing the way. All of this in a widely dispersed county covering 4800 square miles with annual revenues of only 30 million. San Mateo Co, by contrast, covers just 744 square miles and has annual revenues of over 3 BILLION.
Downtown San Carlos was flooded too
2022 data are in
Demand for equipment out of California, Illinois and New York remained strong in 2022, as more people opted to leave areas of the West Coast, Northeast and Midwest. California and Illinois ranked 50th and 49th, respectively, on the U-Haul Growth Index for the third consecutive year, meaning those states saw the greatest net losses of one-way U-Haul trucks.
Rock solid weather?
Was anybody here in CA for the El Nino of '82?
Now THAT was intense.
16/17 was a huge snow winter also. Law Tahoe went up 8’ in a few months. We are sick of this one already just like Snowmagedon last year. Of course the pundits all say “we are in a 1200 year drought even while we are having the worst flooding ever.” I guess they need to scare us to sell airtime. My friend survived the Alpine avalanche in 1982.
The real problem is storage capacity. Why are we in a drought when our second biggest dam is 77% of average capacity. All that means is we need more capacity if we are in drought with tha much water. Simple solution build more and bigger dams.
Oroville’s reservoir is up 80’ to about 724 feetelevation and storage is approximately 1.44 million acre-feet (MAF), which is 41 percent of its total capacity and 77 percent of the historical average.4 days ago
The current drought isn’t as bad as in the 70s. 2013-2016 or in 1992( the lowest Tahoe lake level in my lifetime.
We need weather and climate experts that have more wisdom than the current children in charge…
“This week last July , officials confirmed that Lake Oroville, the state’s second-largest reservoir, was at just 55% of its total capacity when it reached its highest level for the year last month. Meanwhile, Shasta Lake, California’s largest reservoir, was at 40% capacity last month – after the state endured its driest startto a year since the late 19th century.
California threatens ‘mandatory water restrictions’ if people don’t cut back
It’s a dire sign for a state already struggling to manage water during the most severe megadrought in 1,200 years. The glittering turquoise water in both lakes have receded to expose dry, brown lake bed. Dramatic visuals compiled by the department of water resources contrast images of an abundant Oroville in 2019 with this year – when officials say the lake saw a “
Good news… The comments are hilarious. My favorite is the view from under the sand never changes…
My rich friend from Los Gatos is apoplectic. His Santa Barbara vacation home street is flooding and his Loa Gatos home is too…
Sump not working no power… People forget what a rainy winter is like. I remember when the Russian river would flood every year. I remember the landslides in Pacifica killed a couple of people in 1982. Weather happens. Be prepared.
@manch says lack of noncompetes is an advantage for California. It appears that advantage is about to disappear. I think this will be good for employees and innovation.