Lack of affordable housing isn't why most are homeless. High rents could force people on the streets, but that's something you're more likely to see from an unforeseen event like insane medical bills. So few of these people can even hold a job to get Section 8 help to pay for a place to live in their current mental state.
big HONKING birds wrote:
Lack of affordable housing isn't why most are homeless. High rents could force people on the streets, but that's something you're more likely to see from an unforeseen event like insane medical bills. So few of these people can even hold a job to get Section 8 help to pay for a place to live in their current mental state.
High rents force people onto the streets?
If you can't afford rent, move to a cheaper city. That's 100000x better than bumming around on the street.
well we've been at war for almost 20 years now.....that's a lot of traumatized vets coming back home.
20 years of vets, plus ever increasing housing /medical costs......
already voted wrote:
big HONKING birds wrote:
Lack of affordable housing isn't why most are homeless. High rents could force people on the streets, but that's something you're more likely to see from an unforeseen event like insane medical bills. So few of these people can even hold a job to get Section 8 help to pay for a place to live in their current mental state.
High rents force people onto the streets?
If you can't afford rent, move to a cheaper city. That's 100000x better than bumming around on the street.
what if you can't afford to move?
FWIW, I'm not in favour of 'compassionate solutions' either. I think it perpetuates the whole thing.
I think sometimes we see things from where we sit, you can't imagine the situations that lead to homelessness until you've been in it. You think you would do things differently, have more resources, be able to avoid it. Not always.
It just takes life. An accident, an illness, a rape, an assault. A breakdown in a relationship, bad timing, loss of your job. Not one of these things, several happen at once. You might scramble to get on your feet - you might make it. Some don't. You might have saved 1000 to put by to prevent it. So you go through that, this time. Then you get hit by a car, you can't run any more, you're in pain through the day and night, your career is taken. Water comes through your ceiling, you pay out for that. Suddenly all your savings are gone, and you're living month to month with £1.58 at the end of the month to your name. You're so consumed by trying to avoid losing it all you lose your friends in the scramble to stay afloat. Your friends don't even relate to you any more anyway. THEN, something else happens. So no it doesn't just take one thing. It takes a succession of things, but it's way nearer to most of us than any of us would care to think.
So yeah maybe moving is a solution, but by the time it gets to that point, maybe for some people, that option has gone.
It's easy to see options like that when you're afloat.
kyoto wrote:
anyone ever take a virtual tour of skid row on street view? it's pretty bleak, but what is most interesting to me is that the area of homeless encampments appears to have greatly expanded in the past decade.
google maps allows you to see all historical street view images at a given point, so you can see what certain blocks looked like in 2008 vs. 2018. The area of hardcore "tent cities" appears to have almost doubled in ten years, which is really shocking.
and angelinos know what's going on?
True, but it's an incredible place for punk rock.
Snowflake FOX Reporter claims she threw her shoes out after the segment about typhus camps in LA.
Here's ABC at City Hall.
m!ndweak wrote:
This is quite an issue.....talking bad about skid row is racist, but skid row is also racist....no one wins
I miss him, used too crack me up on the daily basis. Mods, please unban m!ndweak please and make letsrun great again!
A 14-year-old rape victim sought the help of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, but it was the detective assigned to her that further victimized her by tying her up and raping her.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Neil David Kimball, 46, pleaded guilty this week to raping to a 14-year-old rape victim.
According to reports, Kimball met with the victim’s family in late 2017 and attempted to befriend the victim.
However, later he would not only tie her up and rape her, but he would intimidate a witness and her family, including issuing threats against them.
[quote[A 14-year-old rape victim sought the help of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, but it was the detective assigned to her that further victimized her by tying her up and raping her.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Neil David Kimball, 46, pleaded guilty this week to raping to a 14-year-old rape victim.
According to reports, Kimball met with the victim’s family in late 2017 and attempted to befriend the victim.
However, later he would not only tie her up and rape her, but he would intimidate a witness and her family, including issuing threats against them.[/quote]
Wow, good news is that he got caught, likely this was his first incident.
And more good news, he was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge, with a 3yr max, and should be back on the force in maybe 6 months (likely) to serve the people again.
ran through wrote:
LOL . . . I have run through skid row in LA a couple of times. Try it, and get over your personal issues about those types of people.
I took a wrong turn last month and wound up in skid row. I didn’t have any “personal issues” about those people until then. Skank City!
kyoto wrote:
anyone ever take a virtual tour of skid row on street view? it's pretty bleak, but what is most interesting to me is that the area of homeless encampments appears to have greatly expanded in the past decade.
google maps allows you to see all historical street view images at a given point, so you can see what certain blocks looked like in 2008 vs. 2018. The area of hardcore "tent cities" appears to have almost doubled in ten years, which is really shocking.
and angelinos know what's going on?
Its simple really, home and rent prices are sky rocketing. There are few checks on what can be charged, certainly not enough. Despite this, income is not rising when inflation is considered for most people. They can't keep up financially and end up in deplorable conditions
Demand is up since degens know CA politicians will give 'em free stuff, supply is artificially limited by the same Sac politicos. Go figure on the result...
Celebrate diversity (including income disparity).
So what happens when all the illegal immigrants come there?
If you've ever spent time around homeless shelters or encampments, there are outliers who are normal people whose lives were hit by a figurative meteor. Then there are those who could make it in the real world perhaps but have decided to raise their middle finger at "being normal" and live free on the streets.
Many of the rest are drug addicted or mentally ill, I mean land of broken toys kind of people.
There is no reasonable answer for many of the homeless. I have come to believe that those who cannot or will not maintain some semblance of self-sufficiency should be warehoused in subsistence conditions. I'm talking something between prison and mental hospital, against their will if required. Harsh, I know, but what other answer is there?
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
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