I Lived in Santa Monica for a while and the park overlooking the pier from the top of the cliff has become a no man's land. In 1978 I used to run along that path every morning. Now I wouldn't go there without a bodyguard. I went there and stayed at an upscale hotel across the street and couldn't walk down the block to go to a restaurant without being accosted for spare change.A great place to hang out... Now it's a 3WSH
Venice's 'world-famous beach and boardwalk are crippled' by crime
Venice Beach residents say they are terrified of going out after dark due to increasing violence among the homeless community, who have set up a permanent camp on the their famous boardwalk.www.dailymail.co.uk
Too cold & rainy is the reason? Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle all say “hi”.
Have you lived in San Fran? There is a small area where homelessness is a big problem....If you go south of Colma the homelessness is far more evident.
By the way...I've lived in SF and Seattle...neither has experienced weeks of sub freezing weather. Where would you rather be, Anchorage or Portland? Helena or Seattle?
Yes. Lived there. Son lives there now. Live in the Portland area now. Lived/grew up/went to school in the Seattle area and the Bay Area. Weather is NOT a chief factor by any means - tolerance of trespassing, soliciting, larsony, panhandling, general enablement in the form of free stuff/handouts including syringes, etc. - - THESE are the things that encourage pilgrimage... as does a local culture of slacking and non-accountability (i.e. these places not only have a relatively high number of non-local homeless, but local ones as well).
Compare that to Miami's most recent actions making it a crime to be poor.
Why are you changing the subject? I care nothing at all about “the Republican Party”. Whatever Miami does is rather up to it’s citizens and the State of Florida. That several constantly cold, soaking wet cities are among the worst in chronic homelessness, “tent cities”, and syringe-paved streets would seem to indicate that the issue cannot be attributed to just ‘good weather’.Compare that to Miami's most recent actions making it a crime to be poor.
They evicted people from their tent encampments, allowing them to take only what they could carry....they used front end loaders and dump trucks confiscate their belongings and will now issue fines to anyone who feeds more than 25 people. Where would you go if you'd lost your job, run out of savings and had your home foreclosed? What if you were in over your head due to health care costs and had covid?
Hoover called out the army to evict the homeless from a tent city during the depression. Should the republican party propose doing the same?
The Politics of Homelessness in Miami
“Until I read it, I wasn’t aware of the scope of the city’s intent to return to the bad old days of criminalizing homelessness,” said homeless advocate David Peery, referringwww.miamitimesonline.com
1. I didn't say that weather was the only issue. I pointed out the facts related to the treatment of the homeless in Miami...Are you in favor of criminalizing homelessness.
Or big cities where they can continue to contribute to the poverty, welfare abuse, and high crime rates, truefool?
Yikes. Sounds like what happened to many American cities after Democrats took control. Cesspools of poverty, homelessness, crime. 3rd world hell.A great place to hang out... Now it's a 3WSH
Venice's 'world-famous beach and boardwalk are crippled' by crime
Venice Beach residents say they are terrified of going out after dark due to increasing violence among the homeless community, who have set up a permanent camp on the their famous boardwalk.
www.researchgate.net
A state like California when one takes into account supplemental poverty rates:
Im sure you’re proud that a homeless person anywhere else wouldn’t be homeless, they’d be dead. A good portion of the homeless are also veterans.
So you checked their party affiliation? I'd bet they don't vote.
