Steve Breen for January 21, 2024

Well, other states keep busing their homeless to California.

Well, Landlords, Greedflation and the corporate “Gig Economy” for starters.

California is now offering “free” healthcare to illegals. When you throw out the welcome mat, people will take the offer.

But let’s not adequately address the issues leading to homelessness.

One paycheque away from the streets.

Homelessness: not what most of us think it is. Difficult to figure out but we need to do better. We need a stronger mental health safety net.

The U.Ss is spending billions on the illegals, and the problem keeps growing.

Of course they are…..it’s warmer there so less chance of freezing to death in places that endure sub-zero temps in winter…..

There are a lot of stupid people running California. The smart ones are leaving. The stupid ones will vote the same idiots back in office.

I suspect there is a very common logical fallacy at work here— that the homeless are homeless because of mental illness. You can’t assume that because two things exist together that either caused the other. I had a friend who was so intelligent that his letter to the editor of the St Louis Post Dispatch was run as a feature article. He was a poster child for well adjusted, and had a supervisory position in a business making electronic parts.

Then, his job got outsourced to India. Within 6 months, he lost his job, his house, his family, and his mind. He became homeless, and anyone examining him would have considered him mentally ill, and in my inexpert opinion, they would have been spot on—- but the mental illness didn’t create the homelessness— it was the other way around.

Democrat policies has turned California into it’s own third world nation apart from America.

Homelessness is caused by a lack of affordable housing. It seems like it would be easy to fix by building more, but it turns out that is not as easy as it seems. We live in a free market society and no one wants to build houses for people who can’t afford them. Nobody wants poor wretches living next door to them. Many don’t want their tax dollars going to people they deem unworthy.

There are no easy solutions.

You mean the same people they are running off every place they are trying to camp?

Look at San Francisco it was once a beautiful city now looks like a third world city in North Korea.

My guess is we no longer have the strong middle class we had when UNIONS were strong. Corporations and the oligarch ultra wealthy have convinced too many Americans that UNIONS are nasty.

So, round them up and put them in work houses companies can abuse for next to free labor? That’s what Repubs think would be a good idea.

I think/hope it is beginning to dawn on Californians that the only way to solve one component of homelessness (they cannot afford rent) is to get money into their hands.

When you pay people to be homeless, and then you’re surprised at the flood of homeless people at your door, it kind of says more about you than it does the homeless!

pretty lame, Steve, pretty lame.

The number one way to deal with homelessness: provide homes.

The most cost-effective ways to reduce the number of homeless people is to build a LOT more housing, and also guarantee a basic income to all. No politician will ever be elected with THAT platform, though….

Convenient for GOP to forget that the California Constitution gives more power to people than any other state, so people have put these policies in place. In addition, studies, not some Fox talking head, have found most of Californian homeless are from California and become homeless in the last couple of years, after the pandemic. Why? Yahoos with adjustable rate mortgages on apartment complexes had their premiums jacked due to inflation, which is now down but the the rates remain high so banks can reap greater profits. Plus, over 35% of residential home sales in the last two years have been to hedge funds and private equity, to turn into Air BnB and VRBO units.