Homeless

[Grapesoda]

What's the homeless situation like where you live? There's people living all over the desert in little groups. 10 here in an RV camp, 5 there, 25 here etc.

Usually about 200-300 yards off the road.

In town RVs are set up in vacant lots etc... but this is a desert town so dirt lots means a chunk of desert with housing tracks here and there.

When I drive down to West Hollywood man it's nasty and hollywood. Tent cities underneath the freeway overpasses along sides of the road.

I don't follow homelessness in the media you know watching news stories watching YouTube reading reports et cetera

I only really think about it when I see it. And I pretty much see that every day.

Anyone here live in small rural towns? What's the homelessness like there?

[rhon23]

West Hollywood isnt as bad as Hollywood or Los Angeles in general. I live in West Hollywood and around LaBrea the tent cities start. As well as sunset. The rest of Hollywood is a giant tent city. Cannot walk on sidewalks anymore

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by rhon23

West Hollywood isnt as bad as Hollywood or Los Angeles in general. I live in West Hollywood and around LaBrea the tent cities start. As well as sunset. The rest of Hollywood is a giant tent city. Cannot walk on sidewalks anymore

I go to weho a few times a month....to crowded but great looking women
What's Melrose like?

[hottoddy]

The homeless are slowly spreading out to rural communities near Portland - where parts of downtown look like some post-apocalyptic war zone.

In Oregon you can't even call them "homeless" because that term is demeaning. Instead they are "campers."

[baddog]

Originally Posted by hottoddy

The homeless are slowly spreading out to rural communities near Portland - where parts of downtown look like some post-apocalyptic war zone.

In Oregon you can't even call them "homeless" because that term is demeaning. Instead they are "campers."

I was going to post that I just returned from a whirlwind visit to Portland during which time we used the train system and Uber, I was surprised how bad it is getting there.

[NatalieK]

Originally Posted by hottoddy

The homeless are slowly spreading out to rural communities near Portland - where parts of downtown look like some post-apocalyptic war zone.

In Oregon you can't even call them "homeless" because that term is demeaning. Instead they are "campers."

are you nuts....

some of these guys are normal working men, divorces and the woman gets the house!

I´m a woman, my partner has always said, I get the house, but without him having just a little income, he´d be homeless, as would any of you..

think before you speak, "the homeless" aren´t a nation! people without a home are you and me without enough income, work gone bad, a business folded, especially with covid, it´s a shit sad situation! World wide!

families are homeless in the UK just because they had no more work!

[fuzebox]

Well, I live in Seattle.

[AmeliaG]

Hollywood is like the apocalypse already happened. And I hear a lot of right-leaning folks saying it is all drugs and mental illness and a lot of left-leaning folks talking like this is just totally acceptable and we just need to call them unhoused neighbors. Meanwhile, so many of the people in Hollywood are like three months of bad luck away from living in a tent. It is heartbreaking.

In Las Vegas, they drive around buses with showers on them and they don't just have social programs to feed the hungry but actual outreach to get the help to the people who need it most. The contrast is stark when I go back and forth.

[pornlaw]

Very few homeless in the Netherlands. I live in the center of Rotterdam and I rarely see anyone who's homeless, despite there being a huge housing shortage here.

Being homeless is still against the law here, so I suppose that explains a lot.

[GUNNER]

just got back from a trip to Mexico... you think homelessness is bad in WeHo/LA, the US? it is fucking heart wrenching to see entire "villages" of families living in squalor, mud, filth... beyond inhumane conditions

[Klen]

Plenty of homeless people in Prague too, tho we have few non-gov organization which gives away free stuff and food to homeless. I participated few times by bringing and giving food.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by hottoddy

The homeless are slowly spreading out to rural communities near Portland - where parts of downtown look like some post-apocalyptic war zone.

In Oregon you can't even call them "homeless" because that term is demeaning. Instead they are "campers."

Essential Campers lol

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by NatalieK

are you nuts....

some of these guys are normal working men, divorces and the woman gets the house!

I´m a woman, my partner has always said, I get the house, but without him having just a little income, he´d be homeless, as would any of you..

think before you speak, "the homeless" aren´t a nation! people without a home are you and me without enough income, work gone bad, a business folded, especially with covid, it´s a shit sad situation! World wide!

families are homeless in the UK just because they had no more work!

So you blame Trump then?

[V_RocKs]

Here and there in Chino. They pretty much congregate in the center of town.

[Sergio]

Here in Ukraine we don't have such people at all

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by AmeliaG

Hollywood is like the apocalypse already happened. And I hear a lot of right-leaning folks saying it is all drugs and mental illness and a lot of left-leaning folks talking like this is just totally acceptable and we just need to call them unhoused neighbors. Meanwhile, so many of the people in Hollywood are like three months of bad luck away from living in a tent. It is heartbreaking.

In Las Vegas, they drive around buses with showers on them and they don't just have social programs to feed the hungry but actual outreach to get the help to the people who need it most. The contrast is stark when I go back and forth.

If my personal opinion is they ought to build campsites with electricity water and sewer and allow the homeless to set up.... the schools need to be available, Healthcare and WORK

For some reason I can't figure out society has determined that self respect can be legislated.

Self respect must be earned by doing esteemable things.

All this false pride shit is just disgusting to me

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by GUNNER

just got back from a trip to Mexico... you think homelessness is bad in WeHo/LA, the US? it is fucking heart wrenching to see entire "villages" of families living in squalor, mud, filth... beyond inhumane conditions

It's been that way for about a 100 years

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Klen

Plenty of homeless people in Prague too, tho we have few non-gov organization which gives away free stuff and food to homeless. I participated few times by bringing and giving food.

I'm not sure if they have that in Hollywood.

One of the major functions of the homeless in the Los Angeles area seems to be throwing fucking trash everywhere

[Klen]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

I'm not sure if they have that in Hollywood.

One of the major functions of the homeless in the Los Angeles area seems to be throwing fucking trash everywhere

People throw trash here everywhere as well, regardless are they homeless or not lol

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Klen

People throw trash here everywhere as well, regardless are they homeless or not lol

The homeless camps bring trash to a home level

[Rochard]

Homeless people are every where.

It's really bad in LA, and the Hollywood area. I also see a lot of homeless people in Oakland. We spent a lot of time in San Francisco and I do see much there, but I am guessing I don't spend much time where the homeless people are. My kid goes to school in SF and in the Universty area there are A LOT of those crappy little RVs - blocks and blocks of them.

This should not be difficult to fix. Make being homeless illegal. Simple. Arrest them all. I am so not joking. Arrest them, get them into a jail cell, get them a decent meal, and figure out why they are homeless. It's either mental issues, drugs issues, or financial issues. At least in most cases. If it's mental issues get them into them a hospital. If it's drug problems get them into a drug rehab center. If it's financial issues, get them into a half way home or something. Once people are homeless it's hard to break out of. We need to get them off the streets and into a hospital, rehab, or some kind of a program. The problem is we have cut funding to all of these programs.

[Speigelau]

Originally Posted by NatalieK

are you nuts....

some of these guys are normal working men, divorces and the woman gets the house!

I´m a woman, my partner has always said, I get the house, but without him having just a little income, he´d be homeless, as would any of you..

think before you speak, "the homeless" aren´t a nation! people without a home are you and me without enough income, work gone bad, a business folded, especially with covid, it´s a shit sad situation! World wide!

families are homeless in the UK just because they had no more work!

Lol Gary, the term "homeless" literally translates to "without home". The term doesn't have anything to do with why or how they are without home, its merely a descriptive term of their living situation. I realize you're supported by Natalie and would be homeless if it weren't for her.

[just a punk]

It's hard to be homeless in my country especially during a winter when there is -30C outside...

[baddog]

Originally Posted by Rochard

This should not be difficult to fix. Make being homeless illegal. Simple. Arrest them all. I am so not joking. Arrest them, get them into a jail cell, get them a decent meal, and figure out why they are homeless. It's either mental issues, drugs issues, or financial issues. At least in most cases. If it's mental issues get them into them a hospital. If it's drug problems get them into a drug rehab center. If it's financial issues, get them into a half way home or something. Once people are homeless it's hard to break out of. We need to get them off the streets and into a hospital, rehab, or some kind of a program. The problem is we have cut funding to all of these programs.

You are more fucked up than I thought you were. Seriously, you think you are a good person? What a fucking laughs that is

[kane]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

If my personal opinion is they ought to build campsites with electricity water and sewer and allow the homeless to set up.... the schools need to be available, Healthcare and WORK

For some reason I can't figure out society has determined that self respect can be legislated.

Self respect must be earned by doing esteemable things.

All this false pride shit is just disgusting to me

The problem with this system is that most of the people who are long-term homeless are suffering from addiction and/or mental health issues. Not to mention many of them also have PTSD from living on the streets.

Any solution that doesn't involve dealing with those core issues likely is not going to be very successful.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by kane

The problem with this system is that most of the people who are long-term homeless are suffering from addiction and/or mental health issues. Not to mention many of them also have PTSD from living on the streets.

Any solution that doesn't involve dealing with those core issues likely is not going to be very successful.

Some people can be helped some people must be housed.

[jlortam]

Some people like this life.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by jlortam

Some people like this life.

I would but only in the country off grid as much as possible BUT then I wouldn't be homeless

Living in a pile of trash on the sidewalk, no thanks.