The homeless epidemic isn’t people down on their luck. It’s a drug epidemic and you can see that from the trash that is being accumulated in these tent cities.
The courts are overran, so they aren’t even ticketing these people for camping out literally everywhere. You can’t put them in shelters because there are curfews and sobriety rules. They also refuse rehabilitation.
What are we supposed to do with them?
Yep, the actual problem summed up.
We need to address the addiction and mental health problems in this country. We've given lip service to those problems for years. The life expectancy for white males is falling due to the opioid epidemic and suicide. The homeless are largely a side effect of that problem.
I agree... but you can’t help people who don’t want help unless they are deemed incapacitated by the courts, which even if that occurs there are no county mental hospitals to put them in because they were all closed due to budget cuts and liability issues decades ago.
There’s gotta be a way to make these mentally ill vermin disappear
They’re so unsightly and reduce the quality of life for honest law abiding citizens
I have to dodge these zombie panhandlers dressed to the nines stepping over their shit in heels daily. I’m tired of spending endless tax dollars on this BS.
They have access to FREE everything including employment rehabilitation and rented apartments to get them back on their feet.... you think they give a fuck? Hell no... they are just going to destroy EVERYTHING from our parks to the storefronts doorways. Nuke em!
Back when I was volunteering at the homeless shelter (around four years ago) I knew one old guy who had lots of mental problems, lots of health problems (multiple heart attacks and a failing liver), he'd refuse to go to the hospital even when he'd had heart attacks, even when the hospital was completely free on taxpayer money, and he was a raging alcoholic with all sorts of psych problems which made him difficult to work with. He wasn't eligible for VA housing assistance because he was dishonorable discharged back in the 1970's after less than one year in.
So anyway, the city still found him a free apartment near the beach in Imperial Beach (he refused any apartment not near the beach) but just two days later he burned half the complex down because he started cooking while drunk, passed out, and ended up making the whe quadplex unlivable so three other families were also made homeless by him. You can't just put them in an apartment and expect them to function. He had the so called "wrap around care" with a case manager, housing navigator, a nurse to set up all of his hospital care for him, to remind him of the appointments, and even to drive him to each appointment, but none of it mattered. You can't save some people and they just need to be in institutional care but the state won't allow it.
