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The homelessness problem in Seattle, LA,Portland, and SF (1 Viewer)
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E Street Brat
Footballguy
E Street Brat
Footballguy
Yes, I'm awear. Did you see the link said nothing about Trump. Or the link posted above it. The Fed gave HUD an additional 130 million in 2018 The current total is 2.5 Billion spent on the homeless.
Great, now I misread misreading it. I saw the article had an update from 2017 and thought the line mentioning 2017 was a recent update.
glvsav37
Footballguy
my bad...but then lets pivot then and ask, where the F is the money going? Because apparently, whatever its funding (if anything), it's not working.
Yes, I'm awear. Did you see the link said nothing about Trump. Or the link posted above it. The Fed gave HUD an additional 130 million in 2018 The current total is 2.5 Billion spent on the homeless.
Courtjester
The Town Drunk
I am tired of the homeless. Yeah, I know that opinion isn't popular, but I am sick of the constant begging. I hate the people in the medians looking for money and the idiots who stop their car to give to them and ultimately hold up traffic or worse yet, cause accidents. I am not feeding their addiction. I am not going to enable their "life-style" choices. I am tired of the camping in the parks and leaving their trash everywhere, which tax payers have to foot the bill for the clean up. I dislike the homeless advocates who file objection after objection to proposed ordinances that businesses are trying to be put in place to help them attract customers and stop people from sleeping on their doorstops.
I do have sympathy for the homeless, mentally ill, who have fallen through the cracks and society has discarded. These numbers surprisingly include a lot of veterans who didn't get the appropriate care for their PTSD. I think these people are the ones we should focus on and spend whatever it takes to help them.
Our homeless population exploded here in Colorado once marijuana was legalized. It was like someone flipped a switch and every corner had someone on it. The downtown area has worked hard to make it family friendly and have tired to enact some ordinances to prohibit panhandling and camping on the sidewalks, but these are always being opposed by someone. You literally having small businesses going out of business due to the lack of customers because no one wants to deal with the hassle of going downtown and the aggressive beggars. They had an auto shop owner on the other night and he is packing it in because his shop is close to a shelter and the amount of vandalism and trash, such as needles and human waste, is causing a huge loss in his customers.
What is funny is you have all these people screaming for affordable housing, yet these will be the same hypocrites who will fight when someone proposes it be built anywhere near them.
I have some proposed solutions, but none of them are PC and will get me flamed for proposing. The fact of the matter is this problem is only going to get worse.
There I have vented....
I do have sympathy for the homeless, mentally ill, who have fallen through the cracks and society has discarded. These numbers surprisingly include a lot of veterans who didn't get the appropriate care for their PTSD. I think these people are the ones we should focus on and spend whatever it takes to help them.
Our homeless population exploded here in Colorado once marijuana was legalized. It was like someone flipped a switch and every corner had someone on it. The downtown area has worked hard to make it family friendly and have tired to enact some ordinances to prohibit panhandling and camping on the sidewalks, but these are always being opposed by someone. You literally having small businesses going out of business due to the lack of customers because no one wants to deal with the hassle of going downtown and the aggressive beggars. They had an auto shop owner on the other night and he is packing it in because his shop is close to a shelter and the amount of vandalism and trash, such as needles and human waste, is causing a huge loss in his customers.
What is funny is you have all these people screaming for affordable housing, yet these will be the same hypocrites who will fight when someone proposes it be built anywhere near them.
I have some proposed solutions, but none of them are PC and will get me flamed for proposing. The fact of the matter is this problem is only going to get worse.
There I have vented....
Politician Spock
Footballguy
I worked as a sales engineer for large software companies for 10 years, and hated it when they held their conferences there. Had to go there numerous times.
Once I was there over the weekend, so my wife flew out to join me. Met her at the airport and we took the train into downtown Saturday morning. First place she wanted to see was the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. So we get off the train at that station, take the steps up to the street, and as she's getting her first glimpse of the city, I #### you not... about 200 to 300 bicyclers ride by right in front of us, and every single one of them was buck naked.
As you may know, most of my life I was a born again christian (not any more) and so is my wife (still is). I think she is still emotionally shocked about that event. She's never asked to go back to SF, and I don't bring it up.
The General
Footballguy
I didn’t elaborate why I hate sf and will never go back but here’s two reasons.
1) coming out of our downtown hotel day 1, we see a naked guy sitting on a chair on the sidewalk. Wife and 2 kids 13 and 11.
2) Having lunch downtown in nice restaurant with family. We had table at front window, 2 homeless guys get into fight right outside and one guy gets pushed up against window right near us.
jonessed
Footballguy
It’s gotten really, really bad. There are streets in Bayview that are completely blocked by mountains of garbage, drug addicts line Market, it smells like #### everywhere. I’ve never seen it like this.
Lack of housing is a huge issue. SF and Oakland have begun to ramp up, but they can’t carry the entire Bay Area. The surrounding cities have mountains of space, but they fight tooth and nail against new housing.
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
Rodrigo Duterte
Footballguy
Sister and a big group of family and friends went to SF last year for a graduation. All they talked about when they came back was what had happened to San Francisco.
