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RE: LA Has Criminalized Poverty By Making It Illegal To Sleep In Cars and RVs

in #news7 years ago

What would you do about the massive, sprawling, disease ridden and unsafe homeless camps that are in California? I saw a video of one and it is pretty shocking to see in America.

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seeing the video must have hurt, but not touched.

I felt really bad for all the people who are paying to live in those apartment complexes with a squatters camp on the other side of the fence. Could you imagine that?

I was thinking in terms of the people who work hard and pay rent and have to step over human shit and needles to avoid hepatitis and listen to tweakers screaming all night, then to come out to their cars vandalized or God knows what, that has to suck right?

I can't help but put myself in the shoes of the folks living in those apartment complexes adjacent to the squatters camp, that has to suck for them right?
Have you ever had to deal with squatters where you live?

I am taking that as a "no, I personally have never had to deal with squatters".
I have, it's terrible. If squatters moves into the building where you live I would feel bad for you, in the abstract you think you would feel bad for them but in real life if that happened to you then you would feel bad for you, and rightly so.

The city should come through there with firehouses and garbage trucks once a week. That would solve the problem.

we'll see if you sing the same tune when some squatters move into your building. I've spent a night on the street in California, the problem is that it is not so bad, what do you need a house for if it does not get that cold and almost never rains and you feel comfortable shitting in the street?
Meth is a terrible thing, once people are on it, which is something they choose to do, they are responsible for the plight they find themselves in, it's sad but meth addicts seldom recover even with treatment. Don't do drugs. Meth makes people do evil shit so I can't excuse it and I don't feel bad for them.

Trump is right that we need to reopen our mental hospitals because a lot of homeless people are mentally ill and so they should probably be in mental hospitals getting treatment.

What the city did do there is put all those people in motels, how long until the garbage piles and fires in the motels force them to be condemned?