In your opinion why are there so many homeless people in LA and San Francisco ?

In Alameda County, the number of homeless residents jumped 43 percent over the past two years. In Orange County, that number was 42 percent. Kern County volunteers surveying the region’s homeless population found a 50 percent increase over 2018. San Francisco notched a 17 percent increase since 2017.

And on Tuesday, Los Angeles officials released the results of their most recent count: Homelessness was up by 12 percent over last year in the county and up 16 percent in the City of Los Angeles.

That puts L.A. County’s homeless population at 58,936 and the city’s at 36,300.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/los-angeles-homeless-population.html

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

Carazaa · F

1. I believe in rent control

2. I believe it should be illegal to fire an employee, but the employers should work with the employees to send them to rehab, counseling, training etc.

3. The mentally ill needs to be given a room and we have enough money without raising taxes, if politicians weren't so greedy with high salaries of $100,000 -$400,000 a year, 5 times the average salary of the population in the USA.

4. Some people lost their houses because they lost their jobs, and the banks kicked them out. It should be illegal for banks not to help families who have financial hardship, not just kick them out. So now we have millions of kids who were traumatised by seeing their parents fall apart and their pets go to shelters, and losing their friends when they have to move.

5. Some people lost their car when they lost their jobs. And if there were great mass transits they can get another job! We ned better mass transits for the young, the old, the handicapped.It would save money in the long run.

6. The car industry should not be allowed to bribe or lobby to take trains, and busses away because they want to make more money and sell more cars and politicians can be bought because they have enough money for a car so who cares about poor people without a car to get to work?

Nimbus · M

@Carazaa Good summary :)

You should stand for President :)

Carazaa · F

@Nimbus I don't want to be attacked by abusive candidates who lie!🥰

Peapod · 61-69, F

@Carazaa, I agree with your list. Number 3 especially. Most of your homeless are battling addiction and mental illness and we simply have no place to put them. When I think that some of these people are veterans too, I really get upset.

Nimbus · M

@Carazaa ;)

Carazaa · F

@Peapod Can you take my survey in my post please?

Spoiledbrat · F

I think the reason why people do drugs in the first place is to cope. They don’t earn enough and or can’t get quality health care and may not like their job. I feel like a slave sometimes. It’s like what’s the point. @Carazaa

Carazaa · F

@Spoiledbrat Excactly! Please answer my post and take the poll 🙂

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Carazaa We have rent control in SF. It's hard to say that it really helped all that much. I guess it keeps the neighborhoods from too much churn, but it's far from a panacea - and people whose incomes didn't keep pace with the area can become remarkably vulnerable and trapped after a while. It's also just as likely to help the wealthy as it does the needy, while boosting prices for those looking.

I'm quite torn on the practice tbh. Yet at the same time, ending now that it's become entrenched, would create immeasurable pain.

Carazaa · F

@QuixoticSoul OK I have had renters in my condo in southern ca. in the past and I believe in rent control, and personally I always believe we need to care more about people than our pocketbooks. That's how I run my business too. People first, then money.