https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-homeless-sweeps-funding-bdaf5719847e11daf8cca06c62737994
"shelters" are one of the darkest and most pernicious propaganda lies in the US right now. "Shelters" my right testicle.
They built 50 sheds with a sleeping cot that can be occupied for a month before they're required to leave, what more do you want?
Yeah, many of them cost 20+ a night and the beds are so limited you have to line up hours before hand to even have a chance of getting in. And then when you do get in you have to deal with violent staff, cops, extremely restrictive rules, theft, and often bedbugs.
WTF shelters cost money? For 20 a night, save up and just get a motel room honestly, not that much more and you don't have to deal with shelter BS. I would be sleeping in my car 5 nights a week and getting a motel 2 nights a week rather than spending money to go to a shitty place like that.
Yeah, I didn't know that either...
Ed. One of the shelters near me is 'faith based' (better love jesus), and need you to have been homeless for 6+ months before using...this is actually demonic shit though, charge the most vulnerable money they don't have, or force them to adopt your religion
I wanna
How do they expect you to prove you have been homeless for 6 months? And what's the point of that? We need people to have experienced enough suffering so they will fall for our indoctrination?
I didn't have a car so I just slept outside and then got a motel room 2 days a week the first time I was homeless. Definitely the shelters are a problem that I didn't want to deal with and couldn't get into if I wanted to most of the time.
But also the motel costs were still like $35 a night and generally was only possible because I still had a job.
Being homeless is so costly and so stressful.
I can't imagine being homeless, and I especially can't imagine doing it without a car. That's my one fallback right now that at least feels a bit better, although car sleeping laws are still existent and stupid. But being in the streets right now, especially with the current crackdown on homeless in CA and your belongings just being open for the taking by police at a moments notice. Like how the fuck do we expect people to live
Yeah, 3 times over the last decade but mostly in a row cause it's hard to claw your way back up. I found a storage unit was nice the second time cause as long as I knew I could only take a couple hour naps during the day all my stuff was at least safe at night and I just needed to find somewhere safe to hang out.
Last time I got lucky with a flop house that was cheap but... Definitely a flop house. I couldn't imagine it right now though. Been sheltered for a few years now and it certainly does seem rougher and the weather less helpful.
I'm shocked Hoovervilles haven't made a return but land is a lot more private now and people are more willing to obey the law.
It's not just California, but it's crazy how much ammo the libs give fash (or even just fash energies within the completely apolitical) by steadfastly refusing to supply housing to homeless people.
Like they could enjoy a 1000-year reich if they would just build some dignified housing, but they're constitutionally unable to do the one simple (and not even that expensive) task that will actually address homelessness.
in a state where every working class person is paying 50% of their income for a roof over their heads, hearing the democrats are giving free housing to """the undeserving poor""" may not be so popular. or maybe it would, idk anymore.
Bringing back the 80s-90s east coast-west coast rap rivalries except it's which Democratic Party can be more depraved.
Surely one of these stones is filled with blood! Squeeze it harder!!
You'd think chuds would be happier considering even their "opposition" gives them 99% of what they want.
I cannot express enough how completely disappointed I am with Newsom. While it was illegal to clear the camps, he was actually busting his ass to sweep away red tape that artificially restricts the supply of housing, and I was all for it. It's too bad he basically decided that the real solution was to go right back to our forty year history of playing whack a mole with camps. Surely if we just clear the camp one more time, install just one more set of homeless spikes, we'll fix the problem.
pulling out the aviators to show how upset his is about not getting a shot as Dem Prez candidate, also being a ghoul to blow off steam
It's really unfortunate that it has come to this. I've been handing out tents, sleeping bags, clothing, food, and donating money when I could for years. It feels like shoveling sand in front of a tsunami.
If anyone has a workable idea -- that hasn't already been tried -- on how to solve the homeless problem that is fair to the unhoused, local homeowners, business owners, towns, and taxpayers... now is the time to step up.
Imma be real with you chief: I don't give a flying fuck about business owners
