Trying to make destitution a crime.
Really intelligent.
The facts are that the fastest growing population of homeless are seniors citizens. And about half of those are WORKING, seniors. Those seniors citizens account for about one third of the homeless population nationwide.
For all you freaks proclaiming that criminalization of destitution just remember. Destitution will always result in desperation which results in social collapse.
To these jackoffs, study what happened in history..especially the French revolution.
BTW..to those geniuses, many of the people who get kicked out of rental housing because of costs, these people often turn to addiction to cope.
I’ve noticed they have quite a few older women (and men) on YouTube living in their vehicles because they can’t afford to make it otherwise on their Social Security. They document their daily life on those channels. They sometimes have difficulties finding a safe place to park where they won’t be chased away by cops or security guards. Taking showers is a hassle. Altogether it doesn’t look like much fun. But as inflation keeps going up and the housing market remains tight I expect many more will wind up on the street. It’s not just young able bodied drug addicts that are homeless.
Oh please, give me a break. We didn’t have that big of a homeless problem when we kept drug addicts in jail and mentally ill people in hospitals. We could drop the price of housing by deporting about 10 million illegals. There are a lot of homeless who can not get a place to live because they spent their rent money on drugs and no one will rent to them. Even their own families and friends will not take them in. You know why? Because they steal from them too. It used to be considered shameful to beg but now they have made the bums into victims. There is a lot of people making a killing off the homeless. California doesn’t even know where the billions spent on them went.
Interesting article:
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2024/02/living-in-shelters.html
From the article:
“Also important to note: nearly one quarter of people experiencing homelessness and living in shelters were not in poverty.”
The report doesn’t mention the number of unsheltered 65+ people, but people aged 65+ account for 8% of sheltered people.