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Old 07-12-2019, 06:28 AM
 
Location: So Ca
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I am unable to link it but a great story today in the LA Times about frustrated property and business owners installing heavy planters against buildings on sidewalks and fencing around the parkways against streets, all illegally, to curb encampments.
Link to article on post #7253
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Old 07-12-2019, 07:25 AM
 
Location: Southern California
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Has our mayor considered spikes similar to the ones they use for birds?

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Old 07-12-2019, 03:41 PM
 
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Default Dr. Drew on the Homeless Crisis

This is concerning, and he's right, it's mostly a mental health and addiction!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MRrlIpQ-Hk
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Old 07-12-2019, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Ca expat loving Idaho
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LA is the perfect storm for homeless. As long as politicians are in union and developers pockets they will continue to do the opposite of what they should to fix the problem.
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Old 07-12-2019, 08:49 PM
 
Location: West Los Angeles and Rancho Palos Verdes
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God bless Dr. Drew -- he's like the Dale Earnhardt of doctors. It's too bad those with the power to help our city and protect the well-being of its stakeholders have not been listening to him.
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Old 07-13-2019, 02:31 PM
 
Location: So Ca
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This is concerning, and he's right, it's mostly a mental health and addiction!
But that's not at all what Dr. Drew Pinsky said. Did you watch the clip? He said that yes, we have a homeless problem, which is mostly being dealt with by providing services (housing, counseling, food, etc). And yes, we have a housing problem in L.A., which affects the number of homeless here, but that's not what he's concerned about.

He's referring to the mentally ill homeless, who, he believes, are NOT being served. He sees the mentally ill homeless--and he believes that drug addiction is the major contributor to mental illness among this population--are not receiving the treatment that they need. He believes that the rate of death among the mentally ill homeless will increase in the near future because drug addiction is a progressive disorder. He discusses possible solutions to this problem.
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Old 07-14-2019, 12:51 AM
 
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Found this gif which makes sense
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The Los Angeles Homeless Containment Thread-homeless.jpg  
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Old 07-14-2019, 07:29 AM
 
Location: On the water.
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Found this gif which makes sense
Makes sense to people who don’t know anything about the realities of homelessness and drugs.
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Old 07-15-2019, 07:43 PM
 
Location: West Los Angeles and Rancho Palos Verdes
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Any leads on catching that homeless guy who capriciously murdered that DWP employee?
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Old 07-15-2019, 08:02 PM
 
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Default After reading 500+ posts ...

... I do not think its a democrat or leftist issue but a corruption issue. There are officials in the government, etc that are benefiting from the homeless problem.


How? Pay-offs from the drug dealers who sell to the homeless by using them as street pushers, diversion of earmarked funds to resolve the problem, established voter base of homeless living on entitlements, etc. (maybe a long con of lowering of real estate prices).



The poor will always be with us. Some problems are made; most problems are created.
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