Owner of Berkeley home Greg Gurnick stated this week to the San Francisco Chronicle,” It has reached the point where it is actually a charitable crisis.” He mentions Ohlone Park, where dog walkers are now crowded out by tents, knives, and animal waste. The problem is true, but it doesn’t really exist in the huts. It’s in the organisations and organizations that are supposed to assist.
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The Berkeley governor, City Council, town manager, police and fire departments were all bombarded by Gurnick and others in a group called Save Ohlone Park, according to the paper, with emails and calls about what they perceived as unhygienic and uncomfortable conditions in open space.
They mention “rising crime and noisy conflicts involving encampment people, rodent droppings and rotting food littering the grass,” campfires that they worry may spark a bigger blaze, and “rising crime and loud conflicts involving encampment people”
Gurnick continued,” It is not great for anyone.” ” The doggie park users, the community, the tenants, the people, the corporations, or the campers.” I have a terrible feeling for them.
Yes, Gurnick is correct to say that they “feel actually bad for them,” and that California’s poverty is” a humanitarian issue.”
What Californians do instead of doing is what they do if there is anything worse than what they do.
One of the state’s largest poor accommodation providers allegedly abused taxpayer funds, according to the same Chronicle last season. It lacked important financial controls, according to the auditors, and engaged in procedures that” adjusted the risk of fraud.”
Translation: Despite receiving pretty much assistance, many pockets were lined up.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to pull more than$ 300 million from the city-county agency that manages contracts for a variety of homeless services in Los Angeles this year. The decision came after” two scathing audits that found lax accounting practices and poor financial supervision at the homeless specialist, also known as LAHSA,” according to the same Los Angeles Times statement.
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Yet the feds are now forming a fugitive task force to look into potential fraud and corruption involving local homelessness funds, and is issuing warrants that arrests might be imminent.
California may not be the only state in the world. The New York Post advised the city to” Reduce off the brazen nonprofits making banks off NYC’s poor providers” in December. The leader of a party for “homeless LGBTQ+ children” admitted guilt last year in D.C. for moving COVID-19 comfort money to private offshore accounts.
The Homeless-Charitable Complex exists to suck up tax money but not to get people off the roadways.
The actual violence, however, is our inaction.
Temporary poverty will always be with us as the worst of times, bad fortune, or a poor choice inevitably catch up with some of our most vulnerable. We frequently do a good job of assisting those people in getting back on their feet, but we definitely may and ought to do much.
And One More Fact: It would be great if certain laws forbade the entry of male sexual predators into women’s homes. A man wearing a scarf in her bed next to her is the one thing that will prevent her from getting assist if there is one thing. But I’ll leave it there.
The actual humanitarian issue is that chronic homelessness nearly always results from a combination of mental illness, drug habit, or both. One issue generally feeds on the other, especially for PTSD victims who are forced to self-medicate using whatever they can get on the streets.
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My RedState partner Bonchie said,” Letting drug users, of which most unemployed people are ), pee on pavements and station under overpasses isn’t helping them,” on Sunday. It certainly isn’t helping world.
What’s necessary is easy, if not straightforward, institutionalization for those who are actually mentally ill and real rehab for those who aren’t.
Berkeley citizens have made the first step in acknowledging the city’s problems. But are they ready to take it seriously? Or will they simply move people who need care from one town playground to another, lining their pockets as they go?
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