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There used to be state mental hospitals for decades. Reagan and the states closed them and many of these folks wound up on the streets. Let's look at the root causes first because we start criminalizing the homeless. First of all they come in all kinds of categories. There is the chronic homeless. No hope of a home, they are on the streets for life unless something else happens. And they fall in a few different categories. Mental illness, drug addiction. Then there are those who are priced out of hosing. There are young white people with college degrees living out of their car in LA (I've met a couple near Encino actually once). They can't find a job that pays decent enough to get an apartment even one with a roommate. Temporary homeless or sometimes intermittent homeless. Those same folks finally get a spot, can't keep it and are back in their car.I'd rather see us attack (strategically) the various types of homeless and then start talking about tent cities.
There used to be state mental hospitals for decades. Reagan and the states closed them and many of these folks wound up on the streets. Let's look at the root causes first because we start criminalizing the homeless. First of all they come in all kinds of categories. There is the chronic homeless. No hope of a home, they are on the streets for life unless something else happens. And they fall in a few different categories. Mental illness, drug addiction. Then there are those who are priced out of hosing. There are young white people with college degrees living out of their car in LA (I've met a couple near Encino actually once). They can't find a job that pays decent enough to get an apartment even one with a roommate. Temporary homeless or sometimes intermittent homeless. Those same folks finally get a spot, can't keep it and are back in their car.
I'd rather see us attack (strategically) the various types of homeless and then start talking about tent cities.
