If there are practical ways, throw some bullet-points down, and I'll be happy to consider them.
It there are easy solutions, I am as interested in anyone to see them.
http://www.sonomacountyhomeless.com
It's no good asking to have ideas presented to you for critique and evaluation. Go and talk to street people and get their perspective. Challenge out of touch politicians and root out corruption or it will get worse.
It worked to some extent.
It generated a lot of ideas, and I learned a lot. I hope it helped others too.
I'm happy with my contribution involving keeping my own severely mentally-ill relatives off the streets. If our family hadn't gotten lucky with some county programs, a couple of people close to me would now be living on the street due to no fault of their own. They're sick, and it's a full-time job split between various family members to keep them above water.
Thanks for your input. I apologize if I come across as overly argumentative. I'm just bored and interested in the subject. If we were in person, I'd buy you a beer.
Correct. Why is the homeless problem in San Francisco so much worse than in San Diego, despite the latter having nicer climate? Because the goodies are in San Francisco and people know it.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/dec/17/san-diego-has-fourth-h...
It's less visible because SD is way larger geographically than SF (231 square miles vs. 372 sq miles in the city proper), plus there's no bay to the East, it just goes into more urban area. But, yeah, there's a big skid-row tent-city southeast of the Padres stadium.
SF is a small city and it just squeeeeezes everyone together so it's in your face.
If you mean in-your-face, I'm thinking it's an urban density thing.
SF is small and incredibly dense. So, the homeless people that are there are packed into this tiny space along with everyone else and you literally have to step over them on the way to work.
If the population of SD was packed into the geographic area of SF with no available land to the North, East, and West, everyone would be stepping over homeless people on the way to work there too.
Same with LA. People come and jam themselves wherever they can fit. If there's fewer miles of sidewalk, density of homeless people goes up, it's more visible, and you get people living on your front doorstep.
On the list of urban density, SF is number 6 and SD doesn't even make the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
From that SF Chronicle article:
"A decade and roughly $1.5 billion later, the city has succeeded in moving 19,500 homeless people off its streets, roughly equivalent to relocating the entire Castro district. But despite that major effort, the homeless population hasn’t budged, showing that as one homeless person is helped, another takes his place."
I mean, that's just incredible. They relocated nearly 20,000 people off the streets.
What else are they supposed to do? You can't accuse them of not trying. They moved 100x more people off the streets than that Loaves and Fishes housing project is projected to do at some point in the future.
It's a tremendously difficult problem to actually solve within the constraints of the constitution, and human decency.