Homelessness In Your City

[WhoWhatWhere]

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[Piaxy]

There is a fairly large homeless population where I live and sadly there seems to be near no support for them since you need a permanent address to receive government assistance here

 

[Zoobles]

Where I live, there isn't so much of a homeless problem as there is a problem with panhandlers that pretend they're homeless and cause a blight to the city, and the majority is perpetrated by those lovely millennials. Welfare is good enough here that nobody could truly be homeless here without a serious mental deficiency.

 

[Pikimon]

I live in Los Angeles, we just round up the homeless and dump them in Skid Row. Mostly because other cities keep dumping their own homeless in Los Angeles. Sometimes we round up the homeless and send them to San Francisco.

 

[EI 903]

I live in Los Angeles, we just round up the homeless and dump them in Skid Row. Mostly because other cities keep dumping their own homeless in Los Angeles. Sometimes we round up the homeless and send them to San Francisco.

Then we try to send them to the East Bay. I think most become packs of feral Raiders fans.

 

[Some JERK]

SF is basically "homeless Mecca". (at least it was when I lived there.) The city government was pretty tolerant. I've seen people just sleeping right in the middle of the sidewalk, forcing pedestrians to step over or walk around them. The cops would maybe roust them once in a while, but certainly not always. It's been a few years, so I have no idea if that's changed. I do remember that virtually every restaurant on Market st. had its own private security inside with the specific job of running out all the homeless who would wander in and start hitting people up for money while they were trying to eat.

I live in a small college town now, and there are a few homeless people here, since the University students are a really soft-touch when it comes to panhandling. The local PD seems to keep a close eye on them though. I don't know of many resources for the homeless in this town, but most pf those types of resources are handled at the county-level anyway.

From what I've noticed, a large majority of the homeless have substance-abuse or mental problems. I've only met one homeless person in my life who was genuinely just down on their luck, and he wasn't homeless for too long.

 

[AnOminous]

I live in Los Angeles, we just round up the homeless and dump them in Skid Row. Mostly because other cities keep dumping their own homeless in Los Angeles. Sometimes we round up the homeless and send them to San Francisco.

You should probably round them up and send them to the state legislature, because they can't be worse than who you already have there.

I think here the cops just beat them up and tell them to go be bums somewhere else.

 

[RepQuest]

I live in Los Angeles, we just round up the homeless and dump them in Skid Row. Mostly because other cities keep dumping their own homeless in Los Angeles. Sometimes we round up the homeless and send them to San Francisco.

Skid Row's homeless population is primarily black. The white homeless people go to Westwood Village or the Third Street Promenade.

 

[KatsuKitty]

I dunno if they're homeless or not, but there's a huge amount of beggars in the town centre. It's rather....I-dunno-what.

 

[Pikimon]

Skid Row's homeless population is primarily black. The white homeless people go to Westwood Village or the Third Street Promenade.

Don't forget Venice Beach. Those are some aggressive bums

 

[Funnybone]

In my part of Los Angeles the homeless people come in from the bus stop and it's like they're all from batshitville. The area itself is seems really nice but everyday you'll just have new random group that takes over the entire block with screaming and sometimes defecating. I never see the same homeless guy/gal twice but they all run the same 'governments got me' program. Everyone just sorta walks around them and pretends they're not there most of the time. I don't really see people handing them cash that much (unlike in other parts of LA). My family and I have this joke that they're zombies because they act exactly like that. Especially after the sun goes down.
I've seen different guys throw shit at bystanders. I've called the polce but it seems cops NEVER respond to any reports of homeless crime around here which royally sucks.

When I use to frequent Beverly Hills I would always see the same homeless there and people were constantly handing them cash.

For me it's really hard to pity the homeless around in LA because there has been SO MANY instances when I walk by homeless I get accosted and either hit on or yelled at-- sometimes while they're grabbing their junk. Blegh. I know most of them are just mentally ill and can't help it but they really are terrifying sometimes. I've had a homeless lady through a big cup of ice water at me at Starbucks. It was shockingly painful. I try to avoid them as much as humanly possible but it's pretty hard.

 

[Cosmos]

I live in a pretty affluent area so you rarely see signs of homelessness. There is one place I drive by frequently that occasionally has someone out asking for money, but it's only a few times per month. My area is also very good about taking care of what homeless (or just poor) people we do have. There are a lot of nice food banks and charities around here, and my church often holds food/clothing/hygiene product drives to support them.

I live in Kansas (a very developed part of Kansas that's very close to Kansas City, but it's still Kansas), so even if you go to the poorer areas you're not going to see nearly the level of homelessness you'd see in cities on the coasts (LA, New York, etc). Because there's a relatively low number, it's pretty easy for them to get the help they need. It also ensures that there's a lot more compassion for them then you'd see in bigger cities, because you're going to feel way sorrier for homeless people if you only see them every now and then as opposed to seeing them every fucking day.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

After out processing when I got out of the Navy I took a bus home. I didn't really have any American money on me but I had a lot of foreign cash. The bums that hung out at the bus stops were more then happy to take it as a novelty item, even though it didn't have any real value.

 

[Loxiozzz]

There were a few homeless people in my area, about four. Three of them died/were killed and the other dude just sorta lives on the stairs of a post office. We give him food sometimes. I kinda get nervous about giving him money, he usually goes straight to the liquor store with it. He got into trouble the last time I saw him drunk. He has days where he'll take what you give him or he'll just say "No thank you!" even if he really needs it. You see a lot more homeless guys in the next town over.

 

[RepQuest]

You should probably round them up and send them to the state legislature, because they can't be worse than who you already have there.

I think here the cops just beat them up and tell them to go be bums somewhere else.

In Santa Monica, it's illegal to kick homeless people off of your property and put up any barriers to keep them out.

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

I live/dorm in New York, so there's quite a bit of homeless people on the streets, even around this time of the year. Hell, recently, I offered some food and water to a homeless couple (that was living on-again, off-again the streets) that was kicked out of their home by one of their grandparents and the other lived a life of poverty and homelessness for pretty much their entire life. I actually decided to have a conversation and have a smoke/blunt with them too because the couple was pretty chill.

 

[TaterBot]

Used to be some here, living in homemade plastic tents down by the river. City cleared 'em out. This is a zero tolerance city, apparently.
I've come into contact with lots of them, in my job, in other cities. The females usually have kids and no job skills. The males as a general rule just don't like to work, like to drink/drug, and have run away from the females they knocked up and their nuisance brats.

 

[Psycho]

In my city, we have a homeless problem, but it seems to be limited to downtown. When I went to college, my school was just a couple of blocks away from a lot of shelters and other homeless resources, so I had a few run ins with them. One of them threatened a whole line of people because nobody would buy him some milk (keep in mind, this was a line of maybe a hundred college students, waiting for a few hours to buy overpriced textbooks).

I read a story in the news paper about a year ago that talked about the homeless and helping them. Like most cities, we used to just try to get rid of the homeless. Put them in shelters and keep them out of everyone else's way. That makes sense, but it wasn't really working as well as we would have liked. So the city changed paths; they got a division of the police department and instead of trying to harass and arrest the homeless, they tried to help them. If they needed something, food, medicine, shelter, those police would help them get it. And that program seemed to help the homeless more than anything, which, in turn, kept the homeless from harassing everyone else. It's a win/win.

On the other hand, if you want to take the idea of helping the homeless to an extreme, you can just do what Utah did: give the homeless their own apartments. The state did a study that found it was cheaper to give them an apartment than it was to keep paying for their arrests, incarcerations and ER visits. So, they gave the homeless people in the state their own apartment, no strings attached. Sure, they got a case worker, who tried to help them fix whatever problem made them homeless in the first place, but even if the case worker can't help, they keep the apartment. The end result was great; besides the already mentioned financial advantages, homelessness is nearly nonexistant within Utah.

 

[Doctor Professor Timon]

I'm from the south. Like. Redneck of redneck country.

There are no homeless because these crazy mofos will cut down trees and build a place in the forest. I'm not even kidding.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Would Panhandlers count? I've seen those quite often whenever I'd head to and from work.