Chaos erupts at LA City Hall as council votes to ban homeless encampments near schools

What they need to do is address the income/asset inequality in the United States rather than shoving the homeless 500 feet further down the road.

Many of the homeless in LA were not born in LA but at some point moved into the area because of the weather and resources for the homeless.

People can try to make light of this situation but the reality is until the relative inequality in the USA is addressed, we will see these types of issues be common.

 

[QUOTE="tinman, post: 14215646,
also this huge woman was going to attack the city council like Godzilla going after Tokyo[/QUOTE]

I can’t imagine the nightmares the council people had seeing this monstrosity coming at them ,.. what were her intentions beyond absolute destruction?

 

Rural conservative communities need to do better with their poor and drug addicted as well also as the large liberal cities suffer greatly from poverty in rural conservative regions as the poor from those regions flock to places like San Fran and LA because urban regions have more resources like public parks shelters soup kitchens etc.

It isn't fair to the urban regions.

 

I saw this on YT a while back. There's many issues: Rising real estate values, NIMBYism causing rich owners to file lawsuits to delay or prevent new houses from appearing, red tape from Environmental Impact Reviews.

Some of the homeless don't want to stay in shelters or temporary housing because they can't drink, do drugs, and whatnot while living there. For some, those who do get access have stayed in the temporary houses at night while moving back to their camps during the day. That double counting kind of defeats the purpose of giving them access to a home in the first place.

The all around weather also attracts homeless to LA or Bay areas. So it's not necessarily a local who is trying to get back on their feet, and the funding for that gets murky.

I kind of feel like there should be coordination with a further inland city to build housing and bus the homeless there, but some people might complain how inhumane or unethical it is to ship one's problem elsewhere...like a cargo container worth of recyclables. It might be personally true. I think homes for everyone is a worthy goal, but if they want to do bum **** during the day, I don't want that eyesore or a constant unsupervised threat hanging around the places I frequent. Cheaper housing elsewhere might address this, but they'll more than likely roam back to their old haunts at one point or another.

In the end, there's a line between those who are down on their luck and those who are fully set in living on the streets and living their life at the expense of the same society that threw them out. People in the vid were too polite and side stepped that. I guess it becomes a tortuous counting issue and one that ultimately isn't fruitful if we idealistically want to "solve homelessness".

I personally would rather go for efficiency and creating benchmarks for incremental success by saving those who really want to be saved.

 

Don’t do drugs is step one

 

Eh a lot of this is a result of pharmaceutical companies lying to regulators and distrusting highly addictive opioids to doctors and bribing them essentially in order to mass distribute them to communities around America for pain relief causing a massive opioid epidemic that hit rural white communities hard.

So what happens when the drugs that ruin your life are prescribed by your doctor?

 

Exactly it wasn’t about banning it was just 500 feet which is literally nothing on distance.. I mean that’s not unreasonable

 

The true step one is don't be poor.

Second step is never suffer or manifest a disability (this includes you, veterans).

Third step is never get arrested.

If you dodge those three you're pretty much home free.

Do all the (legal) drugs you want as long as you're comfortably far away enough from society's dustbin.

 

Only Snake Plisskin can save us now.

 

I agree that they cannot all afford to live in Los Angeles, but that isn't a major surprise because the demand to live in Los Angeles is very high. It is always going to cost more to live there for that reason.

It is a complicated issue and I am not saying that the city of Los Angeles or the politicians are above all blame, only that it really isn't fair to compare Los Angeles to areas that are not as unique.

 

I don't know why every person feels the way they do. What I can tell you is that I also can understand why parents do not want their children to be next to homeless camps, it can potentially be dangerous. However, some of the people that were against the ordinance wanted to force the issue of homelessness and lack of affordable housing to the forefront and believed that this law just swept it under the rug.

I can get into extreme detail if you want, some of it will be like what @Invisible Fan has posted. I will just say that we are largely treating the symptoms and not the cause, and we do not in general prioritize it.