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These aren't fire evacuees? That's terrible!

This was the homeless camp in Anaheim, CA along the Santa Ana River. They kicked everyone out and cleaned it up last year.

San Francisco, Portland and Seattle need to take note.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/03/09/homeless-river-cleanup/

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socal2 says

homeless camp in Anaheim, CA along the Santa Ana River

That checks out as this article indicates: https://www.newsweek.com/california-homeless-camp-trash-needles-821274

QUOTE:
Gary Blasi, a public interest lawyer and professor at University of California Los Angeles Law School spoke with Newsweek about such laws and ordinances in an interview earlier this month, explaining that many police and politicians "just want homeless people to disappear and take their stuff with them."

"That is something that would probably be fine with homeless people if they had someplace else to go, but either you’re going to be on public property or you’re going to be on private property or you’re going to levitate yourself off the face of the earth, and those are their choices. And the last one violates a law of physics," Blasi said.
END QUOTE

The main problem this story illustrates is an increase in the homeless population and a shortage of housing. Why? This is what they won't tell you, an increase in the number of illegal immigrants. I mean if you were an illegal and you found out that CA is a sanctuary state and gives out drivers licenses, it's like your a citizen of the US too. Sign here and vote for the Dems. Yes, as long as you vote for the Dems, you will always have a home here.

Will Powers

Two overdose deaths at the homeless "Camp Bernal" this last week in Santa Cruz. Constant fights, thefts, vandalism and police 'capture then release' policies means no reasonable order or restraint.
Sanctuary status means Santa Cruz is the Cartel Casbah, they keep the pipelines and local drug retailers stocked and stoked.

People in Santa Cruz will actually deny that homelessness has anything to do with drugs or alcohol, they are just "good people down on their luck". How can you argue with LibbyFuck Denial Syndrome? Yet, if these homeless wind up on their streets or lawns, they are screaming to their local politicians.

No jobs or money, but the homeless ALWAYS have money to chain smoke cigarettes.

Santa Cruz homeless have a little racket going on.

Santa Cruz is one of the few (only?) counties in the USA where one can apply for food stamps without having a real physical address.

So, the homeless get food stamps; these are converted to cash by selling them to other people. The going rate is generally 50 cents on the dollar.

So, homeless have a basic cash income of about $150 or so; it's not that much but you can buy cigarettes and some booze. They panhandle in Santa Cruz all over the place.

For actual food, they go to the free food given out in several places around town.

Santa Cruz is interesting; the inmates are running the asylum, and the locals don't seem to know what to do about it.

clambo says

Santa Cruz homeless have a little racket going on.

Santa Cruz just caught up with the rest of the U.S. - there is always a portion of every segment of society that will abuse what is in front of them - rich, poor and in between.

Trouble is there are different sets of "guidelines" for how the law is applied for those that have and those that do not.

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system.

And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”

John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

Perhaps these folks don't realize that nearby farms need produce harvesters.

Ceffer says

People in Santa Cruz will actually deny that homelessness has anything to do with drugs or alcohol, they are just "good people down on their luck".

I think there is both of "drugs/alcohol" and "down on their luck". I observed massive increase in homeless population in 2009-10 when our Great State was hit by a recession year after US did. Then, when economy got better, the homeless population dropped quite substantially, returning to 100% druggies/alcoholics. This tells me that at least part of homeless population came from people kicked out of their jobs during recession.

But may be that is TX where we have less services for freeloaders.

So should druggies and alcholics be instutionalized? Or only if they are "mentally ill"? And who decides who is mentally ill? What is the standard?

I've been indoctrinated with the idea that President Reagan "released all the mentally ill people onto the streets" but is this actually the case?

There are parts of San Francisco that look like that as well, but I've never seen one that large.

The area under the split between Highway 80 and 101 is usually a long row of tents and human shit.

Hispanic people seem to be under-represented in the SF homeless, who are mostly white and black people. Maybe the Hispanics have a better social support network, or maybe they just don't want to run into police because that could lead to immigration questions regardless of the sanctuary state bullshit.