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?
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.
I agree up until the last part. Collective forced housing (en masse), involuntary institutionalization, or enslavement, all give similar effects and they are negative. I highly recommend a visit to the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St Jo, Missouri, if you want to see what those asylums were actually like. It’s out of a horror film. What you’re requesting is a living nightmare for the very people who can’t advocate well for themselves.
I think a better solution would be assisted living apartments, giving the person in question the most autonomy possible. Social workers should be required to have body cams. You might like learning more about bioethics when it comes to determining autonomy and consent with medical/neurological conditions - a complicated topic.
We can design a system that offers people dignity and care without rampant abuse. Some combination of public transparency, civil rights group monitoring and criminal penalties for failures in the administration.
The horrible treatment of people you’re describing is not inherent to asylums. It is a risk that we need to be conscious of and design systems and safeguards to prevent.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
They also start fires to cook with, because most food banks and SNAP don’t give warm food. You have to heat it yourself. If we loosened this restriction for SNAP there would probably be less fires.
When it comes to theft and drug use, a lot of that isn’t the homeless. Yes some homeless, but most visible homeless literally cannot steal because they can’t even get into stores and if they do they are watched so closely.
Drug use sure. But most homeless can’t afford to use drugs at the same rate as housed people. And drug use itself isn’t an issue, it’s that it’s in public, which they wouldn’t do if they had a house. They also would poop in their own house if they had it. Giving homeless people homes solves a ton of issues with them.
Yeah, I saw that. So many news pieces where cities are all “we’re showing our homeless people how much we love and support them by tearing down their shelter, throwing away everything, and telling them to get fucking lost. Because it’s really all about neighborly love and supporting one another at the end of the day, you know.”
On the one hand, I kind of don’t blame them. I mean something has to be done. OTOH it’s interesting to see Newsom and Breed so quick to embrace such a ruling from the current Supreme Court. And now it’s also interesting to hear that LA is not going down this route.
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?
No, it’s an overwhelming problem. Encampments are huge, unsafe, and monopolize use of public spaces.
The alternative is to stick them all in a very large train that runs around the earth at the equator.
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.
That’s what the caboose is for
I agree up until the last part. Collective forced housing (en masse), involuntary institutionalization, or enslavement, all give similar effects and they are negative. I highly recommend a visit to the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St Jo, Missouri, if you want to see what those asylums were actually like. It’s out of a horror film. What you’re requesting is a living nightmare for the very people who can’t advocate well for themselves.
I think a better solution would be assisted living apartments, giving the person in question the most autonomy possible. Social workers should be required to have body cams. You might like learning more about bioethics when it comes to determining autonomy and consent with medical/neurological conditions - a complicated topic.
We can design a system that offers people dignity and care without rampant abuse. Some combination of public transparency, civil rights group monitoring and criminal penalties for failures in the administration.
The horrible treatment of people you’re describing is not inherent to asylums. It is a risk that we need to be conscious of and design systems and safeguards to prevent.
They’re people not a threat.
Loose fit for the meme, but the sentiment is the same.
Average person on safe supply.
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.
Unhoused people are members of the public and thus ought to have access to public spaces.
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.
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.
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- https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/homeless-la-county-homelessness-working-jobs/
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.
They also start fires to cook with, because most food banks and SNAP don’t give warm food. You have to heat it yourself. If we loosened this restriction for SNAP there would probably be less fires.
When it comes to theft and drug use, a lot of that isn’t the homeless. Yes some homeless, but most visible homeless literally cannot steal because they can’t even get into stores and if they do they are watched so closely.
Drug use sure. But most homeless can’t afford to use drugs at the same rate as housed people. And drug use itself isn’t an issue, it’s that it’s in public, which they wouldn’t do if they had a house. They also would poop in their own house if they had it. Giving homeless people homes solves a ton of issues with them.
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.
Yeah, I saw that. So many news pieces where cities are all “we’re showing our homeless people how much we love and support them by tearing down their shelter, throwing away everything, and telling them to get fucking lost. Because it’s really all about neighborly love and supporting one another at the end of the day, you know.”
On the one hand, I kind of don’t blame them. I mean something has to be done. OTOH it’s interesting to see Newsom and Breed so quick to embrace such a ruling from the current Supreme Court. And now it’s also interesting to hear that LA is not going down this route.