25% have severe mental illness and 45% have some type of mental illness.
35% have substance abuse issues.
Having a criminal record dramatically increases the chance of homelessness.
They refuse help.
housing housing housing!!
the poor in Lousiana and Alabama are housed. Poor but housed. because housing is cheap
Housing is cheap because population and employment is declining. The housing paradox
In Tahoe the homeless coalition has money to buy 100 motel SROs. $10m at $100k/unit. They were occupied by min wage workers, Ski bums and transients. Those people are now displaced by homeless, druggies and criminals. Helping the homeless is a hopeless endeavor. The druggies and criminals need institutional care. The rest need alternative housing or will have to move. More units need to built. But most will have to move to more affordable areas… just like the middle class do. In San Clemente the homeless had taken over a public beach parking lot. The city moved them all out. Those who refused alternative housing had their possessions confiscated. Cities can not let the homeless just move in and take over.
I noticed a revolt of middle class and civilized people that led to cancellation of proposed homeless shelter in Santa Clara. I see as a positive sign that middle class and civilized people are rising up against that state that has become increasingly more confiscatory in recent years.
You have to remember that about 80 percent of the homeless are people that should be in institutions. When we closed down institutions like Agnew and did not replace them with anything they had nowhere to go.
This has got to be the only country where the poor are fat and have nice cars. Even the folk in Appalachia described a “starving” look like they could stand to lose a few pounds. And in Virginia fat poor being evicted by fat cops.
Many of these “investors” aren’t based in the United States. These investors include Chinese housing speculators, who are among the fastest growing owners of California real estate.
I know you are color blind but Americans are not. You have to get out of RE market or change your name to John Manchester.
It’s a grand old American tradition. Polish and Scottish folk used to have to modify their names to get jobs.
In the old days, NINA was a thing.
I do not get it. Why does media glorify homeless like Delbra Taylor. Is it a matter of pride and a good role model for others follow to sleep in car for six year and wait for taxpayers to find a home for you? Is this the kind of California we want?