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re: Does anyone have an explanation for the increase in the homeless?
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:39 pm to Bass Tiger
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:39 pm to Bass Tiger
The weather has warmed up
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Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:39 pm to Bass Tiger
There are some new gangs that drive people out to intersections to collect donations. It is kinda weird.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:40 pm to Bard
Its a huge contributor for sure, but if you did that you get into a chicken or the egg kind of argument. Did they do drugs and lose everything, or lose everything and turn to drugs to escape the realization.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:41 pm to Nguyener
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Nguyener
Spot on this.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:41 pm to Bass Tiger
I’m going to go a different direction on this. As bad as bad housing can be, it’s better than unaffordable housing. Tearing down a shack decreases supply. Forcing a slum lord to invest capital into a dump raises the rent of the dump.
Techies move to Portland, buy up the old, poor neighborhoods. The former residents, many w drug or behavioral issues take their disfunction to the street.
I’m not discounting personal responsibility. But be careful when you begin removing non-code housing.
Techies move to Portland, buy up the old, poor neighborhoods. The former residents, many w drug or behavioral issues take their disfunction to the street.
I’m not discounting personal responsibility. But be careful when you begin removing non-code housing.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:42 pm to Bard
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If you were to blood or urine test every adult person you see you would probably see 80%+ with some sort of drug in their system (pot, meth, opiods, etc).
FIFY
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:42 pm to Mizooag94
Going to attempt a serious answer.. having served on the board of a shelter, statistics for us at least showed that homelessness was caused by a series of complex things, job loss, a significant health issue, an addiction to pain medication from a surgery, loss of a child, divorce. The common connection to all of these that caused homelessness was loneliness. Whatever the situation the person ended up alone and eventually homeless. There's no social safety net here so more on the street.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:43 pm to Fat Man
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Fat Man
Same theory as me. We've zoned out skid row, so now skid row is everywhere instead.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 4:53 pm to Bass Tiger
A very large percentage are mentally ill and formerly would have been institutionalized.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 5:01 pm to biscuitsngravy
Well I worked in a homeless shelter during my undergrad because it paid ten bucks an hour when minwage was 3.35. Our all male population fell as follows: drugs/alcohol 75%, mental health25%, true hobo, 1%. They are lonely because they put drugs before anything or anyone else.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 5:02 pm to Bass Tiger
Stop. Just stop.
We don't have a homelessness problem. We have a drug addiction problem.
These folks you call homeless can go to shelters but they're required to be clean. They are unwilling to do this.
They aren't down on their luck, laid off factory workers. They are mentally ill drug users.
We don't have a homelessness problem. We have a drug addiction problem.
These folks you call homeless can go to shelters but they're required to be clean. They are unwilling to do this.
They aren't down on their luck, laid off factory workers. They are mentally ill drug users.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 5:03 pm to Bass Tiger
Providing services that enable homelessness.
Anything you subsidize you get more of.
The more services you provide homeless people which makes being homeless easier, the more homelessness you'll breed.
It's the equivalent of putting out food for stray animals and then wondering why the # of stray animals on your property is constantly increasing.
Anything you subsidize you get more of.
The more services you provide homeless people which makes being homeless easier, the more homelessness you'll breed.
It's the equivalent of putting out food for stray animals and then wondering why the # of stray animals on your property is constantly increasing.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 5:05 pm to Bass Tiger
It’s everywhere. I was thinking the same thing. Maybe it’s all the heroine crossing the border.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 5:05 pm to Bass Tiger
Drugs. Breakdown in family structure. Homeless immigrants. But by far the explosion of number one which leads to the second thing mentioned.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 5:11 pm to PEPE
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Providing services that enable homelessness. Anything you subsidize you get more of. The more services you provide homeless people which makes being homeless easier, the more homelessness you'll breed. It's the equivalent of putting out food for stray animals and then wondering why the # of stray animals on your property is constantly increasing.
Perfect summary and analogy.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 5:15 pm to Bass Tiger
Posted on 5/17/19 at 5:32 pm to ClientNumber9
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Stop. Just stop.
We don't have a homelessness problem. We have a drug addiction problem.
These folks you call homeless can go to shelters but they're required to be clean. They are unwilling to do this.
They aren't down on their luck, laid off factory workers. They are mentally ill drug users.
I donate to a couple of Christian rescue missions in KC and they mail me their quarterly news letters, nearly all the personal testimonials have substance and or sexual abuse
Posted on 5/17/19 at 6:00 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
Maybe its the massive number of low intellect breeders producing offspring not suited for the modern world.
We have been subsidizing low energy, low IQ babies, since the 60s. They have no interest in working.
Then came the opiods.
We have been subsidizing low energy, low IQ babies, since the 60s. They have no interest in working.
Then came the opiods.
Posted on 5/17/19 at 6:01 pm to Bass Tiger
Lazy
Posted on 5/17/19 at 6:10 pm to Gus007
We had 70 yo lined up at the methadone clinic in the late 70s...check out Basketball Diaries by Jim Carrol.
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