Current Events > California's Inside Safe Solution Helping Curb Homelessness

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I mean, they temporarily put the homeless up in hotels, its certainly a step in the right direction.

CoyoteTheGreat posted...

I mean, they temporarily put the homeless up in hotels, its certainly a step in the right direction.

Those hotel rooms are going to be absolutely destroyed. They need to deal with the substance abuse and not just get them a bed. What's been done about treating the root causes?

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

Those hotel rooms are going to be absolutely destroyed. They need to deal with the substance abuse and not just get them a bed. What's been done about treating the root causes?

There's this: https://www.kcra.com/article/care-court-california-mental-health-court-gets-underway/45415500

The city's Inside Safe program takes people out of homeless encampments and places them in hotels as they search for long-term housing.

Seems fine to me.
Better solution is to build more housing so that housing becomes cheaper. Thankfully some recent build were recently signed this week in San Francisco that will help with removing some of the roadblocks that slow down and increase costs of making new housing.
More of that needs to keep happening throughout California and elsewhere

Humble_Novice posted...

There's this: https://www.kcra.com/article/care-court-california-mental-health-court-gets-underway/45415500

'....Addiction by itself does not qualify.'

Fucking useless and performative, this so called care court.

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

Those hotel rooms are going to be absolutely destroyed. They need to deal with the substance abuse and not just get them a bed. What's been done about treating the root causes?

Capitalism is the root cause. America has no interest in dealing with it.

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

Those hotel rooms are going to be absolutely destroyed. They need to deal with the substance abuse and not just get them a bed. What's been done about treating the root causes?

You think all homeless people are substance abusers?

Sounds like a good start. Help the mentally sound ones get housing, and get the mentally unhealthy ones the help they need. Anyone against this just hates the idea of homeless people getting helped.

I saw this guy walking down the street today with such an obvious case of schizophrenia it was incredibly sad.

Ar0ge posted...

You think all homeless people are substance abusers?

Nobody said "all" wtf.

But lot of homeless people either addicted or have mental healh issues and self-medicate. It doesn't help them to ignore that.

Especially if they, the most vulnrable and desperate are simply pushed back onto the street

ScazarMeltex posted...

Capitalism is the root cause. America has no interest in dealing with it.

In the case of Californian homelessness, it is probably half and half. Half it was also Reagan and the neo-liberal ideology of the time of getting rid of social services (Specifically the mental institutions that a lot of people depend on to keep off the streets). There are a lot of people who simply can't afford a place to live for them and their families (And who aren't as "talented" as homelessness to be able to keep themselves clean enough to even have a job to begin with), and I think those specifically are the victims of capitalism, because capitalism requires homelessness as the "ultimate punishment" for those who fall out of the system in order to keep people working low paying, dead-end jobs as slave labor.

It's not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction and certainly better than how they were doing it before. Placing them in hotels and providing shelter is good.

However, the root cause still needs to be addressed because the homeless people you see in the streets are not the only homeless population. Those people are in the last stages of homelessness. There are a lot more homeless people living in their cars, living from couch to couch, working 2 jobs and so on. People are being priced out of the housing market and the cost of living keeps going up with no end in sight. We need to strengthen our social safety nets and provide those who have fallen through the cracks a way to get back up. There needs to be long term shelter and not just temporary.

CommonStar posted...

It's not perfect, but it's a step in the right direction and certainly better than how they were doing it before. Placing them in hotels and providing shelter is good.

However, the root cause still needs to be addressed because the homeless people you see in the streets are not the only homeless population. Those people are in the last stages of homelessness. There are a lot more homeless people living in their cars, living from couch to couch, working 2 jobs and so on. People are being priced out of the housing market and the cost of living keeps going up with no end in sight. We need to strengthen our social safety nets and provide those who have fallen through the cracks a way to get back up. There needs to be long term shelter and not just temporary.

This right here.

My question is, how long do they get to stay in the hotels? Because it sounds like to me they're doing this to rid the camps in "sensitive areas" then they'll be back out on the street somewhere else in a matter of time.