Given how much of a problem homelessness is throughout the state of California, why is the state government not addressing it?
Why not put shelters and programs to get people back on their feet in less expensive places so that eventually the formerly homeless can live in San Francisco by paying rent with the money they earn by working?
Just like everybody else.
How's that supposed to work? The state builds a homeless ghetto in Salinas and trucks all the homeless there with promises of housing and services? Who is this supposed to be attractive to? The residents of the town now housing the ghetto? The homeless who are being shipped somewhere that they don't want to be, somewhere that can't actually support a homeless population on the street? If the program fails either wholesale or for that individual, will they truck them back to SF or just dump them on the streets in this town with no support for homelessness?
What I'm saying is that people are free to go and stay where ever they want in their country as long as it isn't someones private property. That's a very basic freedom that we all have.
You don't have a mandatory responsibility to care for the homeless and homeless do not have a responsibility to accept any your care. Especially if your care amounts to basically forcing them to live in a different place.
I don't care, I can be where ever I want as long as it is not someones property. Doesn't matter if I'm poor or rich.
> Why not put shelters and programs to get people back on their feet
Such programs and shelters do already exist all over the country. Do you want to force them to move to these places or camps?
> Just like everybody else.
Not everybody wants to be you or me.
The real hangup in all this comes when temporary fixes (tents) are pulled out from under people, and ephemeral future fixes by indeterminate somebody are waved around. People have to be sheltered every day. Starting today.
Every 1 homeless person that you help in SF is 10 people that you could be helping somewhere else
