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I was recently up in Portland, Oregon and I couldn't believe the number of homeless that I saw all over the place downtown.
Most of the missions and shelters are in Oldtown, therefore a large number of the homeless are downtown. Unfortunately we do also have a large number of voluntarily homeless crowd as well.
Portland just did the same thing. It's an election year and the mayor's in fear of not getting re-elected.
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Originally Posted by urbanlife78
Pretty much, it is only an issue for some mayors who are in fear of losing their seats.
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Part of Portland's new strategy is to build a 4 floor psychiatric hospital with its own ER.
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Their push to address the homeless situation is tied to LA's bid for the summer Olympics. Officials don't want to be under a negative light right now. There's probably somewhere around 5,000 homeless people living on Skid Row. This problem should have been tackled long ago, but some action a little late is better than no action.
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That is definitely needed, the biggest mistake was closing down a few psychiatric wards.
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I was recently up in Portland, Oregon and I couldn't believe the number of homeless that I saw all over the place downtown.
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Originally Posted by urbanlife78
Most of the missions and shelters are in Oldtown, therefore a large number of the homeless are downtown. Unfortunately we do also have a large number of voluntarily homeless crowd as well.
I think all of you nailed it, tho the reasons are a little bit different. But, "something" def needs to be done.
Maybe the problem isn't the homeless; maybe it's our perception that homelessness is a problem. Most of these people are suffering from mental illness which would not benefit much from housing. They might occasionally choose to spend the night indoors on a rare cold or rainy night, but most of the time they will still be spending wandering around outdoors. Or is the plan to lock them inside?
I have great respect for these people. They live off the land as our ancestors did. They have no bills to pay, no obligations, are perfectly confortable sleeping on the sidewalk, and get to spend the whole day every day outside enjoying the scenery and the near perfect weather in LA. They don't seem to be starving to death and can somehow afford to generate quite a bit of marijuana smoke for passerbiers to enjoy.
A lack of democratic government planning for the city of Los Angeles, you can not continue with this tolerant policy with the disorder, if these people are mentally ill, something is done to collect it from the streets.
Democrats need to learn that there are natural places that will be but expensive than others, and that you can not put everyone in Manhattan or San Francisco if they has no money.
Maybe the problem isn't the homeless; maybe it's our perception that homelessness is a problem. Most of these people are suffering from mental illness which would not benefit much from housing. They might occasionally choose to spend the night indoors on a rare cold or rainy night, but most of the time they will still be spending wandering around outdoors. Or is the plan to lock them inside?
I have great respect for these people. They live off the land as our ancestors did. They have no bills to pay, no obligations, are perfectly confortable sleeping on the sidewalk, and get to spend the whole day every day outside enjoying the scenery and the near perfect weather in LA. They don't seem to be starving to death and can somehow afford to generate quite a bit of marijuana smoke for passerbiers to enjoy.
Send them all to San Francisco by bus. SF could always use a few more homeless people.
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