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No, I don't want to complain. I want the residents of the area to make an informed decision.
Yes I successfully dodged your attempt to pull the thread I created into your own narrative... doing so was child's play honestly, you might want to try harder.
What narrative? I'm looking for suggestions. You've got nothing to offer.
It's not an easy problem to fix because the "problem" is actually multiple problems.
Some homeless have addiction problems.
Some are veterans with PTSD.
Some have other forms of moderate to severe mental illness.
Some are basically asocial (not the same as antisocial).
Some are not actually homeless but are panhandling for income.
Some are felons that can't get a job because no one will employ them, so they are destitute.
Some are women escaping abusive situations.
Some are men on the run because a gang is hunting for them.
Some are men trying to quit the gang life.
Some are people whose lives have been impacted by grievous circumstances that were not their fault.
Some are... (fill in the blank).
Homelessness is one thing. Panhandling is something else. It's a Venn diagram.
And believe it or not, some are homeless because they choose to be (for whatever reason). These types have options, and they have people who love them, but for various reasons they find living on the streets as the option for them at that moment.
Can you show me a heavily populated metro that doesn't have a homelessness problem? That'd be a better question. I don't think any metro area in the US has found the magic bullet on this issue just yet.
What's your definition of heavily populated? And would you consider the local homeless occurrences here a problem?
You've dodged the question and answered with a question.
I'll ask again. What commonalities does the triangle have with LA or SF?
As far as I can see, they are very, very different places.
Anyone who lived in LA in the 70's and also lived here should be able to recognize some repeatable patterns.
Anyone who lived in LA in the 70's and also lived here should be able to recognize some repeatable patterns.
I've never lived there, now or in the 70's. So please do tell me, what patterns are you talking about?
The only thing that I can think of is that there was O'Conor V Donaldson and Addington V Texas which greatly restricted the circumstances in which the state could confine the mentally ill as well as raising the bar that would be used to measure whether or not they could be committed.
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