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Old 12-03-2019, 05:02 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Tulemutt View Post
Because it is a housing issue.
Show me one homeless person on the streets of LA today who was working a steady job and living in a good house.

Show me one homeless person in LA today who is able to hold a high paying job.

Show me one homeless person on the streets of LA today who is capable of gaining employment paying them the salary it requires to live in LA.

No it's not a housing issue...that's the myth you want to spread.

Anyone with half a brain can look at the homeless in all the recent videos I've posted and see that no one of them is capable of taking a job that would pay them the salary required to live in LA.

None appeared to be able to hold a job or even get a job. Many had mental issues and are not capable of working.

It's a drug/alcohol and mental issue crisis. 75% of the homeless on the streets of LA have serious drug/alcohol abuse addictions and 78% are have serious mental issues.

The longer you deny these people the care they need the longer they will live just as they are now.
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Old 12-03-2019, 05:08 PM
 
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Are many homeless people in L.A. mentally ill? New findings back the public’s perception

The only thing that's going to work to clean up this crisis is the following:
  • First thing, is we revise the Lanternman-Petris Act.
  • Second thing is we expand conservatorships.
  • Third thing is we create some sort of facilities or focal areas of wraparound services for the chronically mentally ill.
  • Fourthly, we start enforcing drug laws and helping motivate drug addicts to get better.

Thinking it's a housing issue will never address the true issue.
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Old 12-03-2019, 05:14 PM
 
Location: On the water.
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Originally Posted by Matadora View Post
Show me one homeless person on the streets of LA today who was working a steady job and living in a good house.

Show me one homeless person in LA today who is able to hold a high paying job.

Show me one homeless person on the streets of LA today who is capable of gaining employment paying them the salary it requires to live in LA.

No it's not a housing issue...that's the myth you want to spread.

Anyone with half a brain can look at the homeless in all the recent videos I've posted and see that no one of them is capable of taking a job that would pay them the salary required to live in LA.

None appeared to be able to hold a job or even get a job. Many had mental issues and are not capable of working.

It's a drug/alcohol and mental issue crisis. 75% of the homeless on the streets of LA have serious drug/alcohol abuse addictions and 78% are have serious mental issues.

The longer you deny these people the care they need the longer they will live just as they are now.
Not one of your assessments of condition is required for a person to be housed in communities all across the nation that have inexpensive housing availability. There are many drug addicts and alcoholics and persons suffering mental illness who have pensions / support / even jobs of some kind, but insufficient to meet housing costs in LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D.C., Boston, Honolulu, Portland, Austin, and other high rent cities.

It matters not if housing inventory exists if the costs are out of reach of marginalized residents.

Anyone with half a brain can see that an alcoholic senior retired guy living on $1200 a month SS can find a $200 a month room in a shared single-wide in Alabama ... but can’t get a room of any kind for even $200 a week in San Francisco.
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Old 12-03-2019, 05:16 PM
 
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The longer you deny these people the care they need the longer they will live just as they are now.
I’m not denying anyone anything ... Except a free pass to post stupid oversimplifications without pointing them out as such.
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Old 12-03-2019, 05:20 PM
 
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I’m not denying anyone anything ... Except a free pass to post stupid oversimplifications without pointing them out as such.
I agree that stating it's a housing issue is stupid and misses the mark completely.
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Old 12-03-2019, 05:21 PM
 
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I agree that stating it's a housing issue is stupid and misses the mark completely.
You’d be mis-agreeing since that’s not what I agreed.
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Old 12-04-2019, 10:22 AM
 
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Part 2. He exposes the facts about prop 47 and other laws and bills.

Robert Watkins, IV, MD, discusses the homeless, drug, and crime crisis that has taken over his neighborhood in Los Angeles. This episode focuses on what his neighborhood has done and what laws were passed that contributed to the current situation.

Folks you will learn a lot from this video and what you see in LA and how it grew to the level it is today is revealed in this video. Especially how the 19% of the homeless in LA are from other states. Sad freaking story how this came about.

It also exposes the low life lies perpetuated by the "homeless" advocates to suppress the actual data surrounding the drug addiction and mental health issues.

Thankfully to this guy writing letters to the LA Times, it prompted them to do their own survey. The LA Times did their survey and put out an article stating that 67% not 29% of the homeless have drug and or mental health issues. Not only this the LA Times reported a UCLA study that showed 75% have a substance abuse problem and 78% have a mental health problem.

So clearly it's been under reported. How do you expect society to address this problem unless we know the truth or what we're dealing with.

After the LA Times reports, Council Member Mike Bonin in West LA, still has not acknowledged the drugs and crime issue or the mental health issues....sadly he's still deluding people by saying its a house crisis issue. First step in resolving this issue is acknowledging the truth.

LOL he marched on Garcetti's lawn and even though the turnout was dismal he made great contacts.

The most spot on thing he's states in this video is this:

The Double H Bond raised 1.2 Billion dollars...that's what we agreed to pay. They are building studio apartments for a minimum of $600K each. Well 1.2 Billion/600K = 2,000 studio apartments. There is 60K homeless in LA and we just built 2,000 studio apartment. This does not add up nor is it cost effective. Yet the LA Times reported that 40% of the 1.2 Billion dollars is being used for "soft costs", not to build the studios.

Which brings him to this question. When did we decide as a society, that just because you choose to live in an area that you can't afford...allows you to live there? And that other people are obligated to build you shelter to live there? He would like to live in Beverly Hills but he can't afford it...so should he just show up there with a tent and camp out for a few weeks...does this give him the right to live there? And that the people who currently live there must build him a place to live? That's certainly a crazy principle don't you think?
“19% from other states”, huh ... a meaningless statistic without clarification on: How long they were residents of California / LA before becoming homeless ... especially given that over a full 1/3rd of Californians, housed and homeless alike, were not born in the state ... that would be a pool of about 13 million, btw.

Studied facts are: 65% of LA homeless lived 20 years or more in the city; another 10% lived 10 - 20 years in LA; another 7%, 5 - 10 years ... 13% arrived from out of state.

As to mental illness? Of course it’s a problem ... everywhere, not just on the streets. Here’s some sobering facts:
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43.8 million adults experience mental illness in a given year. 1 in 5 adults in America experience a mental illness. Nearly 1 in 25 (10 million) adults in America live with a serious mental illness.
. It’s also a fact that some of the mental illness endured by the homeless is a result of having become homeless. Same with alcohol and drug addiction.

Set that aside for a moment and just consider the implication of the national mental illness numbers:
There are 43 million Americans experiencing mental health challenges in any given year.
10 million of them have serious mental illness
There are approximately ½ million homeless

... thus, if every homeless person was to be classified as mentally ill (a ridiculous fiction), they would represent just slightly over 1% of America’s mental illness problem. Given that the mental illness % among homeless isn’t even half that exercise, by any stretch of any imagination, you’d have less than a 1/2% ...

Now you want to overturn/create law to allow forceable treatment ... but selectively apply to only persons who are homeless? Which would create precedent for arbitrary applications to larger populations. This to address 1/2% of the nation’s mental illness problem, huh.

Same with alcoholism and drug addiction. Alcoholics and drug addicts survive in the housed and employed workforce / population by the 10’s of millions also.

The point of challenging these reductionist “simple” solutions isn’t to deny the problems. It is to diligently, vigorously defend the freedoms of 320 million Americans.

THIS is why all these “simple solutions” suggesting “no one talks about”, “no one admits the real problem”, etc. are not, in fact, so simple. It isn’t just 500,000 homeless who are at risk ... it’s 320 million Americans’ freedoms that must be preserved in the process of solving the crisis.
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Old 12-04-2019, 07:24 PM
 
Location: Living rent free in your head
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Interesting that Watkins appears to know so much about the homeless, given that he's a spine surgeon (who treats the L.A. Dodgers, Rams, and Clippers).
lol no kidding and according to Matadora he's also an expert on prop 47, he must be quite a guy, huh?
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Old 12-04-2019, 07:40 PM
 
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lol no kidding and according to Matadora he's also an expert on prop 47, he must be quite a guy, huh?
Renaissance man ...
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Old 12-06-2019, 05:39 PM
 
Location: So Ca
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I hope Trump intervenes soon.
He has. Doesn't look as if it'll be of help.

Trump has appointed Robert Marbut as executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.

Besides other criticisms, "perhaps the most troubling thing about Marbut’s approach to homelessness is not his widely reported crackdowns on public meal distributions, but his skepticism of the “housing first” approach to getting people off the street. This widely embraced strategy seeks to house homeless people first, before they have started receiving help to tackle mental illness and substance abuse problems. But Marbut told the Huffington Post a couple of years ago that he believes in “housing fourth,” or requiring people to get their personal lives in order before providing them a place to call home."

Kind of hard to get your life in order when you don't have a place to live.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...essness-agency
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