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Place yourself in San Francisco or Seattle or L.A. It’s rainy, windy. You just got off the bus. You only have …
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Place yourself in San Francisco or Seattle or L.A. It’s rainy, windy. You just got off the bus. You only have $20 cash and you’re hungry and tired. Where do you go? What do you do? Complicate this problem with any of the following:
You have small children.
You are suffering from a chronic disease – HIV/AIDS.
You suffer from bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia and can’t afford, or won’t take, your medication.
You are addicted to heroin.
You have limited job skills or limited education.
You are a symptom of the disintegration of our liberal cities, and they are a symptom of societal collapse. These people live on the tattered fringes of a society that is unraveling, but we make the mistake of talking about “the homeless” in the same homogenous way we discuss “blacks” or “illegals.” Identity politics won’t mend this mess; it is largely a shredding of individuals that we’re watching.
Those on that fringe haven’t much in common other than rooflessness. We know this because in most of the West Coast cities where homelessness is epidemic, the powers that be run an annual, one-day-only survey of all available street-sleepers. Officials train hundreds of volunteers who interview and count them. Then they tabulate and analyze the data attempting to make sense of it, but that can’t really be done. Too many of the designations listed are too intertwined to separate.
The data from the 2019 survey in L.A. County shows a wide diversity of tragedies and/or malfeasance. I was surprised to find that by far the most frequent cause of homelessness is domestic violence -- and I assume that most of these are women, women who feel safer on the streets of L.A. than in their own homes. Just housing these women does not solve their problems –- if such a woman has a permanent domicile, she can be found, and these women don’t want to be found. But t..
