It’s almost as if skyrocketing homelessness isn’t caused by addiction or mental illness, but by millions of people being rent-gouged out of a place to live.
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If all of the short term rentals were put back into the long term market it would help a lot, but the City refuses to enforce the laws they have, or ban them outright.
Given homelessness increased almost 20% just last year, this year will be very bad. Current info shows almost a million homeless and that’s thought to be low because, for obvious reasons it’s hard to get an accurate number. Many are single women with young children. Two kids froze to death last week
9 years homeless because
1: landlord illegally put my rent increase into a mailbox I don’t use so I never received it.
2: “we decided to turn it into an airbnb”
3:”we don’t talk to self employed people because you’re criminals.
Why has my mental health gotten worse in the 2 years I’ve been here?
People who have studied the issue have found that their impact on housing demand is disproportionately low, as they're more likely to live with friends or family than to rent their own place, and when they do rent they tend to share their spaces with a lot of people, like 12 in a 2BR apartment.
But, when you also consider that undocumented immigrants typically make up ~20% of the construction work force nationally, you can see that they play an important role in creating more housing.
Homeless side of tiktok is a whole thing. Folks documenting going rent free by choice. On the surface by choice, but in reality because they’ve been priced out of housing.
I have a friend, a pro sports photographer (who also worked second shift as a HS janitor)a stringer for AP, who WAS LIVING IN HIS CAR WITH HIS TEENAGE SON AND THEIR GERMAN SHEPHERD this fall. He ended up moving to MA and got temp housing, but the lies being told about who is homeless are egregious.
The vast majority of homeless people are trying desperately to get into a better situation. But once you have lost everything, it’s incredibly difficult to get back up without help or support.
I worked as a case manager & a psych intern at a homeless shelter in CA. I had a large caseload of clients, many who were veterans. Almost none of my clients were unhoused because of drug and/or alcohol issues. Most were unhoused because of mental health issues or lack of resources ($$$).
And this simply confirms earlier studies and surveys that have demonstrated that most of the homeless population suffering from addiction and substance abuse acquire that problem after they become homeless.
Even if a majority were drug users, if I had to get yelled at just for sleeping in public, with maybe a thin layer of cardboard or fabric between me and the concrete, I'd be doing drugs, too.
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should try not 2 assume, never know what sum1ʼs been thru
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Especially when the number of homeless is gonna increase with the horrible state of the world right now.
"Since 1985, rent prices have exceeded income gains by 325 percent."
So not a significant amount.
Yeah, that 5500 or so homes makes no difference at all I guess.
https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/vacant-nuance-in-the-vacant-housing/comments
Darrel specifically lays out the census data he's discussing. This is freely available. Would you consider the census bureau a reliable source?
(Maybe that’s part of the thrill for the neoliberalism which causes homelessness).
I was at a conference and said that a lot of policies seem to be based on a idea that poor people do not love others the way rich people do.
1: landlord illegally put my rent increase into a mailbox I don’t use so I never received it.
2: “we decided to turn it into an airbnb”
3:”we don’t talk to self employed people because you’re criminals.
Why has my mental health gotten worse in the 2 years I’ve been here?
How many immigrants, illegal and otherwise, are in California?
If they were sent back to their home countries, competition for housing decreases, and companies will have to compete for workers, driving up wages...
Blame the wealthy when many other factors are also at play.
Do you really think having 1,800,000 illegals in the State doesn't play a major role in competition for existing housing?
should try not 2 assume, never know what sum1ʼs been thru