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2020-01-20 Home Front: Culture Wars

California officials threaten to clear a mile-long homeless encampment in Sonoma County that has grown to more than 200 people - but plan to spend $12million to provide housing

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-20 04:10|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 These people don't need housing, they need incarceration. Politicians are eager to spend taxpayers' money on housing projects because the developers contribute part of their profits to the politicians' election campaigns...either that or they just pass the money under the table. It's a scam.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-01-20 11:44|| 2020-01-20 11:44|| Front Page Top

#2 The government has likely vastly underestimated the number of people here... A mile long? Really? How on earth could only 200 people occupy that much space without having as much space as a group of multi-millionaires? I expect that there are any number of criminal citizens and illegal immigrants (likely both relatively normal ones and gang members) hiding out in this area. It needs to be cleared, both for the sake of public order and for public health.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-01-20 12:41|| 2020-01-20 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 $60,000 per person should buy each a nice mobile home single wide. Brilliant!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-01-20 12:55|| 2020-01-20 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ $600 would buy them a nice tent to be erected in the boondocks and surrounded by concertina wire. Give them food, water and porta potties. Problem solved.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-01-20 13:07|| 2020-01-20 13:07|| Front Page Top

#5 How on earth could only 200 people occupy that much space without having as much space as a group of multi-millionaires?

They need that space for trash, pee and poop.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-01-20 13:09|| 2020-01-20 13:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Thoughtful solutions, but 'homeless' is mental as much as physical. How about addressing depression at first, so some want to remedy their situation rather than living under the cloud of their cloud of woes.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-20 21:28|| 2020-01-20 21:28|| Front Page Top

#7 There was a survey of homeless people some years back in Houston as to why they were in that situation. Don't recall the exact numbers, but it was roughly 1/3 has suffered some financial reverse, 1/3 were mentally ill, and 1/3 were just flipping off The Man and wanted to live free.
(like any 'survey', you can take the categories and numbers with a kilo of salt)

Posted by SteveS 2020-01-20 21:48|| 2020-01-20 21:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Vast majority have substance abuse problems, and vast majority of those folks suffer mental illness as well.

Whoever fought to ensure these people could not be put in mental institutions - where they can get the care and treatment (and perhaps even some compassion, maybe a bit if, yes, love) they need - those "activists who unleashed this foul scourge upon our society deserve to be placed in one of the lower circles of hell.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-20 22:30|| 2020-01-20 22:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Assuming they are on the shoulder on one side of the road, 5280 ft / 200 = 26 feet of road frontage per person. That's about right.

60K per person would be a good deal. LA is spending 600K per housing unit.

Posted by KBK 2020-01-20 22:34|| 2020-01-20 22:34|| Front Page Top

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