This year, Berkeley property owner Greg Gurnick reported to the San Francisco Chronicle,” It has reached the point where it is actually a humanitarian crisis.” He’s referring to Ohlone Park, where houses, knives, and human waste then occupy the front lines of the canine travelers. The problems is true, but it doesn’t stop there. It’s in the organizations and organizations that are supposed to assist.
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The Berkeley president, City Council, area administrator, police and fire departments were all bombarded by Gurnick and others in a group called Save Ohlone Park, according to the newspaper, with letters and calls about what they perceived as uncomfortable and unsanitary problems in a public place.
They worry about smoke, rising crime, quiet conflicts involving camp residents, rodent feces and rotting food strewn about in the grass, and campfires that may cause a bigger fire.
Gurnick continued,” It is not great for anybody.” ” The doggie park users, the community, the tenants, the people, the corporations, or the campers in the area. I have a terrible feeling for them.
Yes, Gurnick is correct to say that California’s poverty is a “humanitarian turmoil,” and that he is also correct to say that.
But what they do instead of doing is what Californians don’t do to help the poor.
The same Chronicle reported last time that one of the state’s largest providers of poor housing cheated on taxpayer money. It lacked important financial controls, according to the auditors, and engaged in procedures that” adjusted the risk of scam.”
Translation: Despite receiving very much assistance, many hands 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 report.
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Yet the feds are then forming a fugitive task force to look into potential fraud and corruption involving nearby homelessness funds, as well as providing warnings that arrests may be imminent.
California may be the worst, but it’s not the only state. In December, the New York Post advised the city to” Cut off the brazen organizations that profit from NYC’s poor services.” The leader of a party for “homeless LGBTQ+ children” pleaded guilty in D.C. last year for moving COVID-19 comfort money to private offshore accounts.
The Homeless-Charitable Complex exists to suck up duty money rather than to get people off the roadways.
The actual violence, however, is what we don’t accomplish.
Temporary poverty will always be with us as the worst of times, bad luck, or a poor choice inevitably catch up with some of our most susceptible. We frequently do a good job of assisting those individuals 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 children’s homes. A person in a scarf in the bed next to her is the one thing that will prevent her from getting help if there is one thing. But that’s it.
The actual humanitarian issue is that mental illness, drug habit, or both are the main causes of severe homelessness. 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 put it this way on Sunday, saying that “letting drug users, of which the majority of homeless people are ), pee on streets and station under overpasses doesn’t help them.” It certainly isn’t helping world.
What’s necessary is easy, if not straightforward, institutionalization for those who are truly mentally ill and true rehab for those who aren’t.
Berkeley people have made the first move and acknowledged that the area has a problem. 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?
Recommended: Â WaPo’s ICE Hysteria: All Panic, No Caregivers;
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