Sacramento Hair Salon Owner Says Homeless Crisis Is Forcing Her Out Of Town

Bill said:
What if they are full??

Do you know how many ppl are homeless in the USA??
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Good grief, jailing people for being homeless, what next? How compassionate of Bobb, Jesus was homeless, traveling preacher, he relied on the charity of others. These faux Christians make me laugh.
 
Cypress said:
To me, it does not seem any worse in downtown Sacramento than in downtown Oakland or downtown Los Angeles. Therefore, I am not clear why this particular mayor is supposedly doing worse than others.
There clearly seems to be more homeless everywhere than there was 30 years ago.

It seems to be mostly a public health issue to me, not a law enforcement issue. I lot of these people seem to have mental disabilities.
I leave it to people with expertise to propose solutions, I would be a phony armchair expert if I knew what the bloody heck to do about it.
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You can thank leftist policies and ACLU law suits for what we are experiencing today. This is typical of Progressive polices. They are designed to fail because Progressives are morons who don't use their brains, but their emotions.

Congress passed the Mental Health Study Act of 1955. It established the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health to evaluate the nation's mental health situation.

1961 - The commission published its findings in Action for Mental Health. It recommended that community health centers be set up to treat those with less severe mental illnesses. The American Psychological Association’s paper, “Recognition and Prevention of Major Mental and Substance Use Disorders,” said the commission’s research estimated that 20 percent of the population suffered from some form of mental illness and distress. It focused on treating these disorders to prevent them from becoming more severe.

1963 - President John F. Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act. It provided federal funding to create community-based mental health facilities. They would provide prevention, early treatment, and ongoing care. The goal was to build one for every 125,000 to 250,000 people. That many centers would allow patients to remain close to their families and be integrated into society. But it ignored statistics that showed 75 percent of those in hospitals had no families.

https://www.thebalance.com/deinstitutionalization-3306067
 
Bill said:
I think we can & should be nice to them..

I don't know of any places that don't have shelters full every night but you do have a point that there is a fairly large segment that don't want the rules required to stay in them & to receive care of any type..


But some won't go because they can't take their pets, which are very, very important to many of them, the only companions they have..


Another phenomena I have seen popping up around here is RV's.. Not sure where they get them but they go someplace & just park it/or dump it & then live in it...…

There were several even up in the Mt on the side of the road... They just through the trash outside the door~ piling up in front of it.. There are no hookups or toilets there & the river is on both sides of the road.. The other side was even worse w/ junk cars in the river polluting this drinking water.....

Took a year to get rid of them......
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Shelters is not the answer. Most of this issue is mental health and drug use. As usual, Progressive leftists are incapable of confronting any issue honestly or with facts.
 
cawacko said:
I used to think we’d reach a tipping point in SF regarding homelessness, similar to NYC and crime in the early ‘90’s, but we never have. Maybe Sacramento will approach it differently than we do. TBH I don’t know all the dynamics of your local politics and if the will to do something will be there.
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The problem is similar to SF...… There are several local groups that have been here for many years & now there are more but they keep coming.....

In a large part, IMHO, it falls on the mayor (accommodating them). I have met him many times & he is certainly a good person & has "good intentions" but the problem has only gotten worse. He even allows them to camp around city hall (there are no facilities, closest is about a block away)-twice he has berated the cops for removing them....
 
Truth Detector said:
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Just think. All that effort to read my post, respond with a long and verbose written response, and supported by internet research and links....and yet I did not read a single word you wrote!


All I can think is that my writing is extremely interesting for a certain subset of wingnuts who relentlessly follow me around, make it a point to read everything I write, and continuously write to me hoping for my attention, even as I consistently ignore them.

I don't know whether to be flattered by the rapt attention to my writing....or whether to be creeped out!
 
cawacko said:
Prefacing this by saying there is no easy solution to homelessness and there's no snap your fingers solutions that will instantly turn this problem around. With that said who are the "experts" that we're supposed to turn to deal with this? Having lived where I have for as long as I have I may not be an "expert" but I've seen things only get worse while all these "experts" have been working on the problem. "Regular people" are just as qualified to talk about this issue as any so-called expert.
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It is a problem that dates back to the 60's. The severe impact of these poor decisions to close institutions and supplant them with boutique health facilities is a massive Progressive leftist failure.
 
Cypress said:
Just think. All that effort to read my post, respond with a long and verbose written response, and supported by internet research and links....and yet I did not read a single word you wrote!


All I can think is that my writing is extremely interesting for a certain subset of wingnuts who relentlessly follow me around, make it a point to read everything I write, and continuously write to me hoping for my attention.

I don't know whether to be flattered by the rapt attention to my writing....or whether to be creeped out!
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Just think; something you're obviously incapable of doing. Yes, we get it. You prefer wallowing in ignorance and echo chambers. ;)

Translation to this buffoonish post:

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Bill said:
The problem is similar to SF...… There are several local groups that have been here for many years & now there are more but they keep coming.....

In a large part, IMHO, it falls on the mayor (accommodating them). I have met him many times & he is certainly a good person & has "good intentions" but the problem has only gotten worse. He even allows them to camp around city hall (there are no facilities, closest is about a block away)-twice he has berated the cops for removing them....
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Interesting. Leaving policy solutions aside for the moment it will ultimately comes down to how much voters can stomach. When they get fed up enough they'll put someone in office (regardless of party) who will do something about it. Until then we continue down this path...
 
CharacterAssassin said:
LOL! It's where I live. Sacto is nothing even remotely like Baltimore, silly meth-head.
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HOMIE :)

I dunno how long you have lived in the area but I have been here since the early 80's.....

There was some homeless, as was common throughout the valley, bay area, usually isolated around loaves & fishes downtown...….


Now you go around in Carmichael~ Arden mall there are homeless on every corner-literally..
 
Bill said:
HOMIE :)

I dunno how long you have lived in the area but I have been here since the early 80's.....

There was some homeless, as was common throughout the valley, bay area, usually isolated around loaves & fishes downtown...….


Now you go around in Carmichael~ Arden mall there are homeless on every corner-literally..
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I’ve always believed it is the climate, it is easier to be homeless in Sacramento then it is to be homeless in Indiana. The California dream attracts people, then they find out how expensive the dream is.

My friends mentally ill mother lives there, they have gotten her a place to live, but she prefers to be on the street, her paranoid delusions make her feel safer there than in an apartment. It is sad, what can one do, she refuses to take her medication, claims it makes her feel weird.
 
Cypress said:
To me, it does not seem any worse in downtown Sacramento than in downtown Oakland or downtown Los Angeles. Therefore, I am not clear why this particular mayor is supposedly doing worse than others.
There clearly seems to be more homeless everywhere than there was 30 years ago.

It seems to be mostly a public health issue to me, not a law enforcement issue. I lot of these people seem to have mental disabilities.
I leave it to people with expertise to propose solutions, I would be a phony armchair expert if I knew what the bloody heck to do about it.
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I don't know how those places seem to you, all of them are far worse than they were 30 years ago, 20, 10 & even 5 years ago-the problem continues to grow exponentially..

I would say so but this creates law enforcement issues-drugs, public intoxication, violence, defecating/urinating in public etc etc etc..

Yes I believe most of them have mental issues, substance issues, both-self medicating etc do to lack of services...

A quarter of the homeless now are in Calif...… West coast I believe has over half of the homeless now on our streets..

We have no solutions-obviously mental health is needed but the governor/mayors etc have no master plan nor the cash to implement it...….. :dunno:
 
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