Californians discover homelessness is a problem

[HoughMade]

For what it's worth the homeless in Chicago have tent villages along the expressways on/off ramps you can see as you go along 90/94.

Nothing like California- nothing.

Winter helps.

 

[ghuns]

Nothing like California- nothing.

Winter helps.

But even in Kailfornia, while LA and San Fran have HUGE homeless problems, a place like San Diego seems to manage it. I honestly can't imagine a better place on earth to homeless than San Diego. Why aren't they overrun?

The biggest difference I can think of is that SD is a military town. A far less "tolerant", enabling demographic than what's found in other locales.

 

[HoughMade]

But even in Kailfornia, while LA and San Fran have HUGE homeless problems, a place like San Diego seems to manage it. I honestly can't imagine a better place on earth to homeless than San Diego. Why aren't they overrun?

The biggest difference I can think of is that SD is a military town. A far less "tolerant", enabling demographic than what's found in other locales.

I hate to burst your bubble, but I was in San Diego fairly recently. I stayed near the convention center. There is a walkway and park on the bay facing Coronado and in the morning, there were homeless people every where. Banches on the walkway- every one had a homeless person camped out on it. The little peninsula where park is- homeless camps and trash all over the place.

I can only assume that this isn't the only place.

 

[ghuns]

I hate to burst your bubble, but I was in San Diego fairly recently. I stayed near the convention center. There is a walkway and park on the bay facing Coronado and in the morning, there were homeless people every where. Banches on the walkway- every one had a homeless person camped out on it. The little peninsula where park is- homeless camps and trash all over the place.

But do they have a typhus outbreak or a smartphone app to help you avoid piles of human feces, like LA or San Fran?

I'm not contending they don't have homeless or even a problem. Just that given the climate, they should have the worst problem.

 

[CPT Nervous]

In Mayor Bootyplug's South Bend, there have been large encampments of homeless downtown.

They keep building more and more shelters and addiction centers, and the problem keeps growing.

 

[femurphy77]

In Mayor Bootyplug's South Bend, there have been large encampments of homeless downtown.

They keep building more and more shelters and addiction centers, and the problem keeps growing.

File that under "Things that make you go hmmm"

 

[IndyDave1776]

In Mayor Bootyplug's South Bend, there have been large encampments of homeless downtown.

They keep building more and more shelters and addiction centers, and the problem keeps growing.

Getting more of what they subsidize? Who would imagine such a thing?

 

[churchmouse]

File that under "Things that make you go hmmm"

Exactly. The word gets out and they will come.

 

[rob63]

But even in Kailfornia, while LA and San Fran have HUGE homeless problems, a place like San Diego seems to manage it. I honestly can't imagine a better place on earth to homeless than San Diego. Why aren't they overrun?

The biggest difference I can think of is that SD is a military town. A far less "tolerant", enabling demographic than what's found in other locales.

Along those lines... I visited San Francisco a few months ago and I was really struck by the fact that the homeless were noticeably absent from the Chinatown area.

 

[femurphy77]

Along those lines... I visited San Francisco a few months ago and I was really struck by the fact that the homeless were noticeably absent from the Chinatown area.

Have you ever had a pissed off chinese grandma come at you with a wok?

 

[CPT Nervous]

Exactly. The word gets out and they will come.

A lot of our homeless come from Chicago.

 

[KMaC]

Along those lines... I visited San Francisco a few months ago and I was really struck by the fact that the homeless were noticeably absent from the Chinatown area.

I wonder if the Chinese gangs are less tolerant?

 

[churchmouse]

Along those lines... I visited San Francisco a few months ago and I was really struck by the fact that the homeless were noticeably absent from the Chinatown area.

That is not surprising at all.