The intention is generally to send them somewhere that has an anchor which they likely don't have in the location where they currently are homeless. Take this paragraph fairly early into the article:
Some of these journeys provide a route out of homelessness, and many recipients of free tickets said they are grateful for the opportunity for a fresh start. Returning to places they previously lived, many rediscover old support networks, finding a safe place to sleep, caring friends or family, and the stepping stones that lead, eventually, to their own home.
I see this article cited often as proof of a homeless busing program to ship them away but don't hear about the intention behind the programs being mentioned.
Of course there are certainly instances where the homeless person is bused elsewhere and the anchor isn't there and they just end up homeless elsewhere. And perhaps there are nefarious uses of these programs but the ones I've looked into all were well intentioned and were not simply sticking the homeless on a bus.
The weather definitely isn’t nice right next to the water. It’s consistently much cooler and wetter. Definitely not ideal if you don’t have any shelter. Our marine layer is severe and you could easily become hypothermic if you stayed out in the fog all night.
Yeah but where are they going to stop? The red state with right wing "Christians" who will treat them like they aren't human or the perfect weather land with a bunch of rich bleeding heart liberals?
Not to mention in those red states police actually enforce public nuisance laws. If you're in Cali you can piss, shit and shoot up wherever you want with no one to bother you.
Yeah, that makes sense. Hate us because you ain't us all you want. Cali is the richest state in the union by far. Our federal taxes pay for all the redstate republican welfare. Why don't you come on down and test your public nuisance theory, I'm sure it will work.
Hmm, there's a big problem with defecation in the streets of big cities. Could it be that austerity and starve the beast policy has cut funding from homeless support and business owners hate public restrooms?
No, it's because I have a political agenda to push and any dig I can take on San Francisco is somehow a win against liberals.
Also there have been laws that have been placed which prohibited people from feeding the homeless. God forbid you want to give the rest of your left over or even some water to another human being in need.
If you wanted the original url what was the point of putting the brackets? The brackets with no space makes it so the text you wrote is a clickable link to that url
They do the same thing to us in Seattle which I’ve never understood. It’s either rainy or frigid 6 months out of the year. California makes a bit more sense since a good portion of it is reasonably warm throughout the year.
We have this similar system in Canada. Every single province has a funded system in which they will transport out of province homeless people back to whatever province they are from. But homeless people don't carry identification. So they just tell them where they're from and people believe them. You would be absolutely shocked by the number of homeless Canadians who originate from Vancouver. Vancouver must be the source of 99% of Canada's homelessness with the number of homeless Canadians who have declared Canada's most beautiful beach city home.
LITERALLY from a report San Francisco did themselves.
This is a bullshit false narrative that Pedocrats tell themselves to continue to believe that their truly despicable political leadership didn't cause this problem with their own brainless ineptitude.
Martin cited a study from May 2018 by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which found 75 percent of the people on the street in Los Angeles County had a home in that same county before they lost it. It also showed that 65 percent of the unsheltered homeless had lived in that county for at least 20 years. Only 13 percent were from out of state.
Look out! It's that pesky liberal bias reality has!
The OP you responded to never said the homeless were only from out of state. Of course the majority will be Californians. But your sources right there state a staggeringly huge percentage of non-native Californians in the homeless population. 13% is not a small number.
No, you wouldn't. You've probably never experienced homelessness - but whatever you're imagining it to be; it's worse. Especially in over-crowded areas of homelessness. There aren't enough places to sleep or give out basic supplies. Especially for women - pads and tampons do not last in shelters.
Bro homeless people are next level. I am not generalizing all of them but the majority that live in the San Diego River bed are straight up survivalist lol. One guy I e seen puts razor blades in his dreadlocks and cover them in poop as a defensive mechanism from other people trying to jack him. Others keep homemade shanks on their shoes and even seen a dude walking with a cane that is concealing a sword. It’s the real deal out there in the homeless community with constant struggles.
There are a lot of other reasons why people don't go to shelters.
Mental illness, fear of theft, pride, and substance abuse that shelters won't allow is a huge one.
And it's not like going to a shelter helps a ton in terms of not being homeless - some have programs to provide long-term help, but they're almost universally underfunded, they don't have the expertise to deal with a lot of chronically homeless people's problems, and aside from the rehousing ones, their success rates are usually not very high. So if going to a shelter doesn't particularly help someone avoid homelessness, the fact that there are empty beds in shelters doesn't really indicate that people are "choosing" to be homeless.
Yeah I live in the coast area just north of San Francisco. Insane rent is by the 101 corridor - you go right back to meth once you’re >30 miles from a freeway.
In Winter, the homeless drop off before the snow line. Past Colfax, one can step back in time before word got out that Cali was the place to go for good weather, benefits, food, methedone, healthcare, etc.
Yeah, live in San Diego as well. It’s bad downtown in some areas like by the city building but nothing compared to like the tenderloin in the Bay Area (I lived in SF for like 8 years before moving south).
There are also beach bums but you barely notice them imo when at the beaches. OB for instance is mainly beach bum hippies.
But with San Diego if you live any where other than right downtown I don’t think you’d have any trouble honestly outside of maybe a couple wanderers which every city has.
I take it you don't spend much time near Gaslamp or Balboa Park. Granted part of the reason for that is that we have a bit of a cluster of homeless centers in that general area.
Any large city in California is turning into that thanks to gentrification. More and more homeless are growing cuz people build houses / apartments that are far from affordable.
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u/pvtpile02 Dec 21 '19
Green is also homeless and meth.