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conditional_soup ,

What the fuck, I did not see that one coming. I’m in the central valley, can a SoCal person catch me up here? Is LA actually getting shit done on homelessness?

something_random_tho ,

No, it’s an overwhelming problem. Encampments are huge, unsafe, and monopolize use of public spaces.

Nougat ,

If there was available, appropriate, safe, and dignified housing available to people in encampments, then it would be justifiable to clear ad hoc encampments. Otherwise, you're just making it "someone else's problem," because people have to go somewhere.

Beaver ,
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They’re people not a threat.

octopus_ink ,

Loose fit for the meme, but the sentiment is the same.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0c8b6335-3802-498b-9ebb-c4ca841c68c5.webp

Beaver ,
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Average person on safe supply.

Blackout ,
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The alternative is to stick them all in a very large train that runs around the earth at the equator.

something_random_tho ,

Most homeless people are down on their luck and really need support. Affordable housing, job training and placement programs, food, and medical care can really help these people. I don’t have any problem with this majority of the homeless population.

A small percentage of homeless are insane, whether due to mental health problems/drugs/some combination. These are the people causing problems. They cannot be left to destroy themselves and society around them. We need mandatory care for these people for them to live with dignity. It is not compassionate to throw them on the streets and ignore them. We need asylums for this subset, like we had until Reagan closed them all.

Blackout ,
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That's what the caboose is for

unmagical ,

Unhoused people are members of the public and thus ought to have access to public spaces.

something_random_tho ,

Right of access to public spaces doesn’t mean shitting on the street, smoking crack, starting fires, or stealing dozens of bikes and packages from neighbors.

FlyingSquid ,
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They shit on the street because no one is letting them use any bathrooms. They are “starting fires” because it gets cold in L.A. at night.

Most homeless people in L.A. are not drug addicts or thieves. They’re just down on their luck in one of the most expensive cities in the country. Many of them even have jobs. But when rent is $2000 a month for a shithole that’s a 3-hour drive from their job, what are they supposed to do?

This says almost 50% of homeless people were working in L.A. and that was back in 2020- cbsnews.com/…/homeless-la-county-homelessness-wor…

So you tell us: where are they supposed to go? How are they even supposed to get there?

Also, re the drug part- if you had to live in the conditions they lived in, you’d probably be tempted to take the cheap escape that intoxication offered too.

unmagical ,

Tell me, where do you poop? Are you willing to let any unhoused people poop there? Where do you cook? Are you willing to let any unhoused people cook there?

Housed people poop, do drugs, cook, and steal. Unhoused people poop, do drugs, cook, and steal. They just do it from a public space.

Life is hard, especially when you’re on the streets. I don’t fault anyone for doing what they need to survive or recreating in a way to escape their struggles.

jaybone ,

In the SF Bay Area they are jumping on the chance to take advantage of this new scotus ruling. So I’m a bit surprised LA is not.

MyOpinion ,

Don’t move skid row some place else. Shrink skid row by placing money into affordable housing. The next leader of California needs to be taking action on housing every day.

NewNewAccount ,

Government funded and non-profit services exist in and around skid row already. The situation is obviously more complicated than just throwing more money at the situation.

This video is worth a watch. Pretty eye opening.

FlyingSquid ,
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Because they have nowhere else to go.

Ghostalmedia ,
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That’s not actually the case in CA.

Newsom was in favor of the SC ruling because CA has a lot of unused bed capacity. Many cities and counties have more unhoused people than beds, but many of the beds are unfilled.

Newsom wants to clear encampments if shelter space is available, not if shelters are full. That was impossible to do before the SC ruling. If you had 10,000 unhoused people and 2000 total beds, and only 1000 of the beds were filled, you would needed 10,000 beds before you could clear encampments. Newsom wanted to be able to say “I have 1000 more beds, so I want to get 1000 more people off the street.”

Last I checked a few months ago, San Francisco had about 10% of its beds open, and cities like Oakland have something like 30% of its beds open. I was looking for LA’s stats, but I have not been successful.

This all sounds great in theory, but a lot of people avoid shelters because they’re not safe, don’t allow you to have belongings, etc. That’s the first problem we need to solve. Adding more beds isn’t going to help if reasonable people don’t want to take them.

FlyingSquid ,
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That’s because homeless shelters are dangerous and unpleasant for all sorts of reasons:

I spent most of my time homeless out on the street. It wasn’t until the very end of my homelessness that I ended up in a shelter. And I found out that a lot of what I was afraid of was true. I never found out what a body louse was until I got into the shelter. You know, I had my shoes stolen, just like people said you get your shoes stolen, although I will say that there were three people in the shelter who offered to give me a pair of shoes after that happened.

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Hi, yeah, I was homeless in Berkeley, and I found it very, very difficult to go in at the times that they wanted us to go in and to leave at the times that they wanted us to leave. It was difficult because it was exhausting. You had to leave whether it was rain or shine. And a lot of people had nowhere to go. And so you would find women that were just, you know, sitting outside the shelter at all hours of the day, waiting for the shelter to open up again.

And then, you know, when it was open up again, you had to be in there by a certain time. I was dealing with both mental illness and substance abuse, and I think people forget that with substance abuse, you don’t have much control. You need help, you really need help, and you can’t necessarily come in without having alcohol on your breath.

You can certainly not drink while you’re in the shelter. I’ve been sober for a few years now, but at that time I just, I wasn’t able to do what they wanted me to do and to come in at that time.

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Hi. Nobody has addressed the thing about animals. And I just want to say, when I was homeless, I had a dog. I used my dog as protection because I was just a single young woman on the streets. And, you know, they wouldn’t let him in shelters. They - you couldn’t have an animal, and I needed my dog. I mean, my dog was kind of my family. And so we slept outside because I didn’t want to have to give up my dog.

npr.org/…/why-some-homeless-choose-the-streets-ov…

This site goes over it in more detail: brightenthecorner.org/…/why-some-people-avoid-hom…

Sexual assault is also a big problem in shelters. Here’s the ACLU on abuses going on in shelters in Orange County, CA: aclusocal.org/…/aclu-uncovers-horrific-conditions…

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