Crafty Chinese!!! Getting the Panda's to eat the evidence after the event.
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Crafty Chinese!!! Getting the Panda's to eat the evidence after the event.
We should have been doing this much sooner but welcome news
carolinablue232
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Good stuff. Is anything being done in conjunction or separately to allow these people to be come more financially independent? I don’t think permanent housing will work long term as the population will just continue growing to exceed the capacity the root cause isn’t addressed.
I don’t know tbh.
Prior to COVId I know the governor was talking about how to improve mental health services as approx a third of homeless are impacted.
However the issue for many in California is that we just haven’t been building enough housing to get anywhere near close to our population growth so housing costs, even if you have a steady job, can just be unaffordable.
I was reading this story today, I know it is from New York but similar dynamics you would expect here in California - just having a stable roof over their heads has helped some to focus on other issues
To echo what legs said.
Many homeless here simply need an address to get on their feet but but problem is once they get evicted they lose a grip on getting back into a stable home given how high rent is and how in demand housing is. Many landlords sell their properties to flippers or to contractors with deep pockets. Such is the market in this state houses and property values have skyrocketed.
So they find it hard to keep jobs because they cannot get there on time because they have to keep moving to places generally far away and transport here sucks.
As for the ex Military which equates to many of them. Their health and well being should be on the federal government. Dumped out with not a pot to pee in and generally in cities they have no family. Yes this still happens even after it was supposed to be fixed from the Vietnam Era.
They don't do enough.
Many of the homeless don't have debt. They just don't have a place to stay and that can hinder them from getting jobs.
The risk of being on the street is drugs and violence.
At least in a safe place like these hotels it gives them a little bit of hope. Especially those wanting to get out of it.
Don’t know how much of a thing it is down your way Steve but Bay Area rents make it not uncommon here - different sort of homelessness than usually portrayed in “skid row” situations
Behind the RVs lining El Camino: Palo Alto's affordable housing crisis
One RV resident, a government supervisor who works in Palo Alto, said he moved into the RV from an apartment in Stockton after his five hour daily commute became unbearable.
www.stanforddaily.com
It is the other side of the coin to some of the declining areas of the midwest - no jobs but lots of housing there but the reverse here. I know many people would say to these people in both these places “well move somewhere else” or “learn a better paying trade” but there are emotional ties to family/friends that can preclude the former and time constraints (especially if you have kids) that constrain the latter.
Am hoping that some of the working remotely flexibility brought in by Covid helps alleviate some of the pressure.
TN Toffee
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Shame. Let me be the first to offer them my most sincere thoughts and prayers.
Back in pre COVID days when I was in Seattle for a conference, they had a lot of RVsDon’t know how much of a thing it is down your way Steve but Bay Area rents make it not uncommon here - different sort of homelessness than usually portrayed in “skid row” situations
Behind the RVs lining El Camino: Palo Alto's affordable housing crisis
One RV resident, a government supervisor who works in Palo Alto, said he moved into the RV from an apartment in Stockton after his five hour daily commute became unbearable.
It is the other side of the coin to some of the declining areas of the midwest - no jobs but lots of housing there but the reverse here. I know many people would say to these people in both these places “well move somewhere else” or “learn a better paying trade” but there are emotional ties to family/friends that can preclude the former and time constraints (especially if you have kids) that constrain the latter.
Am hoping that some of the working remotely flexibility brought in by Covid helps alleviate some of the pressure.
Good point.Don’t know how much of a thing it is down your way Steve but Bay Area rents make it not uncommon here - different sort of homelessness than usually portrayed in “skid row” situations
Behind the RVs lining El Camino: Palo Alto's affordable housing crisis
One RV resident, a government supervisor who works in Palo Alto, said he moved into the RV from an apartment in Stockton after his five hour daily commute became unbearable.
It is the other side of the coin to some of the declining areas of the midwest - no jobs but lots of housing there but the reverse here. I know many people would say to these people in both these places “well move somewhere else” or “learn a better paying trade” but there are emotional ties to family/friends that can preclude the former and time constraints (especially if you have kids) that constrain the latter.
Am hoping that some of the working remotely flexibility brought in by Covid helps alleviate some of the pressure.
Down here it's mainly vets and the unfortunate. There are those in RV nut nowhere near on the scale as up there.
I actually know a few lads who did that for a while, whilst working in Silicon Valley. Their stories were pretty grim. I think there was a vice report or some documentary on HBO a while back about it too. Utter madness.
If you add in the people who live in their cars it is a sort of “hidden homelessness” that has different roots and solutions than often considered. Don‘t have data to hand but suspect families with kids are particularly vulnerable.
'Hidden homeless crisis': After losing jobs and homes, more people are living in cars and RVs and it's getting worse
More Americans are being driven into their vehicles by the pandemic as the government safety net frays and evictions and foreclosures increase.
www.usatoday.com
carolinablue232
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Glad to see they’re showing maturity...Pathetic and embarrassing
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The current Republican Party is an embarrassment (and this guy lacks so much emotional and intellectual development, I still can’t believe he is my congressman). The way they are conducting themselves is showing their true colors, to think they are going to remove someone from a leadership position because she is not willing to push a lie about a stolen election shows how low they are willing to go to appease Trump.
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