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The U.S. government tallied more than half a million people living on the streets on a one-night count this year, a quarter of them children.
Tracking tent cities is difficult, but the NLCHP identified more than 100 across 41 U.S. states from 2008-2013, though few were officially sanctioned.
Seattle has voted to permit three tent cities, with Mayor Ed Murray declaring homelessness a "full-blown crisis" following the death this year of 66 homeless people on the streets or in illegal campsites, and a 21 percent jump in the King County homeless population since 2014. Amid chronic U.S. homelessness, Northwest backs 'tent cities'
I am glad that there are at least a few places allowing the homeless. Far, far too few however. I wonder how many have died in the record setting winters and scorching summers of this past decade?
The conservatives of the board are just thinking there is no real problem, because by gosh, if only those homeless people had been properly motivated maybe they would not have died.
I mean..apparently death was not sufficient motivation.
The conservatives of the board are just thinking there is no real problem, because by gosh, if only those homeless people had been properly motivated maybe they would not have died.
I mean..apparently death was not sufficient motivation.
We have opened our doors to everybody and we do not care that we are putting Americans on the street. Nobody cares about the homeless until they erect their tent or box in your morning jogging path.
The problem will become much worse in the future. We have had plenty of legal and illegal immigration and outsourcing that has deprived Americans of jobs. Now we have robotics that are posed to take over. If you don't think it could happen to you; go to this BBC article and type in your job: Will a robot take your job? - BBC News. There are plenty of experts predicting that one third of our jobs will disappear in the next ten years. That article thinks it will be twenty years; but, regardless, the end of work as we know it is coming.
Back in 2009, when unemployment was very high, The New York Times blog had a very good article on immigration and the problems that accommodate the competition for the low paying jobs: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.c...age-jobs/?_r=0. Pay attention to the well written comments to that blog. Then, after you look over this information, think of our future when even our good paying jobs disappear because of robotics and automation.
I have read other tech articles that believe that the new companies will take care (share the wealth) with the displaced workers. I don't think so. We have wealth that controls our Country and they will not give up power without a fight. I am not even too sure if it is healthy for America to sit on our butts and not work - we have a major obesity problem now.
What we can be sure of is that homelessness will not go away anytime soon. The only way we even look at this problem is that there is an National election approaching. Otherwise we would simply put on our blinders and keep on jogging.
We have opened our doors to everybody and we do not care that we are putting Americans on the street. Nobody cares about the homeless until they erect their tent or box in your morning jogging path.
The problem will become much worse in the future. We have had plenty of legal and illegal immigration and outsourcing that has deprived Americans of jobs. Now we have robotics that are posed to take over. If you don't think it could happen to you; go to this BBC article and type in your job: Will a robot take your job? - BBC News. There are plenty of experts predicting that one third of our jobs will disappear in the next ten years. That article thinks it will be twenty years; but, regardless, the end of work as we know it is coming.
Back in 2009, when unemployment was very high, The New York Times blog had a very good article on immigration and the problems that accommodate the competition for the low paying jobs: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.c...age-jobs/?_r=0. Pay attention to the well written comments to that blog. Then, after you look over this information, think of our future when even our good paying jobs disappear because of robotics and automation.
I have read other tech articles that believe that the new companies will take care (share the wealth) with the displaced workers. I don't think so. We have wealth that controls our Country and they will not give up power without a fight. I am not even too sure if it is healthy for America to sit on our butts and not work - we have a major obesity problem now.
What we can be sure of is that homelessness will not go away anytime soon. The only way we even look at this problem is that there is an National election approaching. Otherwise we would simply put on our blinders and keep on jogging.
Totally agree, my late husband said that when banks first started using ATMs, which replaced tellers.
The entire election process is a farce- us-against-them...a diversion/blinders to take the focus of the SHEEPLE off of the real life issues like these!
The U.S. government tallied more than half a million people living on the streets on a one-night count this year, a quarter of them children.
Tracking tent cities is difficult, but the NLCHP identified more than 100 across 41 U.S. states from 2008-2013, though few were officially sanctioned.
Seattle has voted to permit three tent cities, with Mayor Ed Murray declaring homelessness a "full-blown crisis" following the death this year of 66 homeless people on the streets or in illegal campsites, and a 21 percent jump in the King County homeless population since 2014. Amid chronic U.S. homelessness, Northwest backs 'tent cities'
I am glad that there are at least a few places allowing the homeless. Far, far too few however. I wonder how many have died in the record setting winters and scorching summers of this past decade?
The conservatives of the board are just thinking there is no real problem, because by gosh, if only those homeless people had been properly motivated maybe they would not have died.
I mean..apparently death was not sufficient motivation.
Sorry; I 'reped' you by accident! Have you heard anybody on the Democratic side of the isle mention homeless; even when they controlled the Congress. They sat there and did not open their mouths. Now, all of a sudden with the election looming; they care about us! Give me a break; both parties are just as bad as each other - they only care about their own hides.
If anybody really cared about the homeless; we would convert some of the old factories into housing made up of capsules like the Japanese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel. Then provide shared public bathrooms for them to relieve themselves and clean up. Instead we are providing support for people that illegally entered our Country! We also have many homeless that are veterans; we should all hang our heads in shame. Of course there is the other problem of mental illness that is harder to deal with.
By the way; 66 deaths for 500,000, does not sound correct. Unless we do not have good statistics. 66 in a year would mean they have a much higher lifespan than any human currently living.
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Sorry; I 'reped' you by accident! Have you heard anybody on the Democratic side of the isle mention homeless; even when they controlled the Congress. They sat there and did not open their mouths. Now, all of a sudden with the election looming; they care about us! Give me a break; both parties are just as bad as each other - they only care about their own hides.
You mean like the widely publicized initiative to tackle homelessness? They passed the HEARTH act in 2009 and chronic homeless has fallen 31%.
Homeless vets with no shelter have declined by 50% since 2010.
The democrats just authored and passed (with republican support) quadrupling the H2b non-agricultural low skill visas. These are jobs Americans WILL do in construction, landscaping, hotel, food service, masonry, painting etc.
More homelessness and joblessness for Americans on its way.....
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