The Walnut Creek Homeless Task Force will be hosting a virtual forum on Nov.10, from 6:30 – 7:30 in the evening.
This is the third in a series of informational forums, designed to give community members and business owners an opportunity to learn what is being done locally to address homelessness.
The event is free, but registration is required by visiting the Task Force website.
A Zoom link will be sent later this month to those who register.
No matter what we do or throw money and time at the homeless problem none of those resources will help! It all is about how morally bankrupt our society in the USA is! We are a very sick bunch. We are to blame.
What is your morally not-bankrupt solution for helping people who are homeless?
@ilovepopcorn
Please do NOT group us in with your theory of being a sick bunch and are to blame for homelessness. That’s quite a sad theory.
The closet place to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm.
You can’t force unhoused people to live in houses.
@JJ and you can’t force Americans to use there hand to help someone else. Americans are responsible for the state America and it’s people are in, no skirting responsibility.
Until the homeless are required to accept treatment for their addiction and/or mental illness, and accept housing in a shelter, the problem will remain a problem. Oh, and don’t call 911 on your family member and say he/she is trying to kill someone unless you are willing to have that family member placed in harm’s way. Just saying…as the brother of someone who was mentally ill.
Yes. Calling 911 will only enhance the problem. Police are not social workers. Once police are involved and the homeless person under the influence of meth or whatever drugs acts violently and picks up a stick, the police will protect themselves. Taser do not work as they need exact skin contact. Police are taught to protect themselves and the society. Then the police will shoot and then the families will file a lawsuit and gain millions. Family should have help with the addictiion.
If you want to help the homeless, reopen the asylums.
We just have to do it….giving them money or free services just makes them expect more….its proven in history…
@ anon EXACTLY!
I don’t believe our country is morally bankrupt. But, many politicians are, and they ARE “throwing” taxpayers’ money at these poor sick people. Laws have to be changed to allow families to help their mentally ill loved ones get medical help and shelter those who don’t have family support. It’s not like this in other states.
Like a true liberal. It’s fine, just not in my neighborhood.
They think they can detox an alcoholic in seven days. That would put him or her in great shape for the next bender.
first off
this state flooded in over 12 million illegals
where are they living ???
yep in all the affordable housing ….being favored and pushed to the front of the line for housing and section8
leaving american citizens with no affordable housing
has anyone seen any illegals living on the street ???
i have not …..
yes there are many bums out there …with no will to be a part of society
but now the liberal rulers have sent american citizens to the curbs
in favor of their agenda to boost population for census fed money
along with more fed money for the self imposed housing problem
the problem is caused by a one party corruption of our freedoms and liberties in this state …and bad voting or the attitude of keep it the same because they tell me too
until the flow of illegals is addressed the abuse of american citizens will continue in this state
and with the newscum and his cronies passing bills to ease crime on our children you will be the monsters giving our children to pedophiles
you voted for everything wrong in this state …live with it or fix it
my bet is you will keep giving our housing to illegals and leaving citizens on the streets
while the politicians of this state reap horrors on you and your children
within 10 years is legal to abuse your child ….
wow this sort of thing used to be illegal ….
i guess their vision of sanctuary is abusing children and kicking their parents to the curb while taxing anyone else to death
this is dem voters that have done bad voting over the past 40+ years
no one to blame but yourselves …..
i hope your children are impressed ….i am not
Great post.
I’m not sure how the same people that are for open borders (which we basically have in CA) are the same people that cry about how we don’t help the homeless enough.
Reopen asylums and create work camps.
Well said ! but your way makes too much sense.
Doing some fact-checking here. You said:
“this state flooded in over 12 million illegals”
What is your source for that number? According to the pew research center the number of illegal immigrants in the entire United States was estimated to be about 12 million in 2007 and since that time has declined to 11.1 million in 2014 (that estimate being confirmed by the United States Department of Homeland Security).
So if the entire country has fewer than 12 million illegal immigrants what is your source that suggests it’s 12 million in the state of California?
I used to have sympathy for the homeless
Until
The Public Agency I work for was tasked with cleaning out a fairly large encampment in Concord. The residents that I saw were seemingly able-bodied and in their late 20’s/early 30’s. The city provided a flat bed truck for their belongings and a bus to transport them to a shelter where they were guaranteed beds, counseling, and employment assistance. When we showed up they cursed at us and threw beer bottles. When the media showed up they went into a group huddle and cried. Not one of them took the offer of shelter and services.
Is it fair to lump them into a single group?
Not sure anymore.
@randomTask you nailed it, the problem is CA is OUT OF CONTROL. In reality there is NO hope… The only thing law abiding citizens like us can do is abandon ship while we can… So sad on many levels. Like mentioned above, until we can force the addicts into treatment this while continue to spiral out of control… God please help us
Went to TF webpage…99% of the content is sympathetic to alcohol and drug swilling, crime committing bums, which is what most of them are, let’s face it. One video however (Lt Sean Conley, WCPD), described in 3mins, the reasons why there has been an explosion of bums in our communities and why it cannot be resolved under the current political environment. Bottom line: because liberal judges and district attorneys have been elected and have gone on dictate what is permissible.
Yes. Calling 911 will only enhance the problem. Police are not social workers. Once police are involved and the homeless person under the influence of meth or whatever drugs acts violently and picks up a stick, the police will protect themselves. Taser do not work as they need exact skin contact. Police are taught to protect themselves and the society. Then the police will shoot and then the families will file a lawsuit and gain millions. Family should have help with the addictiion.
Walnut Creek has no clue about the impact of homeless on the streets..They are everywhere, old and young and getting more mentally disturbed everyday and residents must look away as they take their seats while dining outside,leave their carts all over, deficate behind dumpsters, rummage thru trash, yell out, because if you give them money they will buy drugs and alcohol, so you just have to grin and bear it and pay huge taxes, so they can enjoy life more than you and get free hand outs.
The Walnut Creek City Council and mayor invited them in and now they have taken over like San Francisco tenderloin.
We should put them to work with gas powered leaf blowers.
I am sick and tired of hearing the liberals and the entitlement crowd such honest law abiding taxpayers dry. Taxes are not used for the purpose we are told they were to be initially and I am sick to death of this constant shell game.
Stop allowing us to be taxed to death…Hint vote no on all tax items. Make the government and the life long term politicians step up or get out.
Why can’t people see how we are being led by the nose with the crap the media only puts out there and we do not think for ourselves any longer.
Wake up at the clock is ticking.
Since society decided we didn’t want to lock people up against their will there is always going to be people that choose the street vs. obeying the rules of whatever housing can be found for them. That being said the homeless are not the problem. The people handing out cash are the problem. This just goes straight to drugs and alcohol. If you feed the bears you get more and more aggressive bears.
Ilovepopcorn, speak for yourself. Most of the homeless are addicts who can’t handle their addictions. I got up and went to work everyday regardless of how much I drank or how many drugs I took, because that’s what you do. I did not decide that my addictions entitled me to give up and set up house in the local parking lot at Safeway. Put the blame where the blame belongs. The homeless I see on a daily basis have neither shame or pride. So please dont call me morally bankrupt. I am not the one and neither are my fellow citizens morally bankrupt. You have it backwards.
In order to “create a more just society”, California has eliminated bail, redefined many felonies as misdemeanors, turned a blind eye to drug and alcohol abuse, etc…
And the result? Filthy streets, increasing crime and turning California into a giant dumpster. In a sane world, some kid would yell out “The King has no clothes” and we’d all awaken from this nightmare.
Correct, but the liberals in this state have also created an atmosphere where if you point out the craziness you will be labelled something awful, may lose your job and will be treated like a pariah. I guarantee if you went to that meeting with a legitimate complaint all you would hear is, “Being homeless is not a crime” until they are blue in the face. That’s the Pleasant Hill City Council’s mantra.
@The Mamba
You say: “I guarantee if you went to that meeting with a legitimate complaint . . .”
If one went to the city council meeting, one would be greeted with a panel of dead eyes. You would be told by several dazed VIPs how their “clients” are “just people too”. You would leave wondering if the dead eyes are actually pea pod people from that famous movie. But it’s actually much worse than that.
Are there homeless in Walnut Creek? I thought they were all in Concord now, that’s all I see when I drive by on 680 or around Willow Pass.
Extended Stay in PH has become a homeless camp.
Yes I have a solution!!!!
Round them up, take them to a closed army base, house, 30-40 each in old army barrick facilitys, it is good for the regular army, they are no better.. Give them new clothes, feed them and pay them about $5.00 a day if they stay in program. The money will be put in a savings account til they leave. They must follow orders, attend classes to get them back on track and can be put back in the general population. Any one not working with program, kick them out no money, no state or fed support,arrest them if they camp on fed, state, personal land. and lock them up. Problem solved.
@David Satti
Brilliant!!!
Only one BIG problem. The kind, caring, loving people taking “care” of the homeless would not receive the funding (a good number of these humanitarians are paid to be kind and caring) in the form of donations and city, county, state, federal taxpayer money. The humanitarians would not be able to posture in front of cameras, media, city councils and pretend they are great people. These facts are out there for those who want to investigate.
Forgot to add:
These particular “humanitarians” are enablers. Enablers that get a payback which has very little to do with caring about others. Guilt. Recognition. Phonies.
The last three comments are sadly right on the money.
Stop voting and allowing the liberals into office.
We must vote to stop this. Contra Costa sadly is becoming a dumping ground for these types. The private building I work in has homeless, who want to live this way by choice as they do not want to obey laws and they get great benefits, coming in to use private bathrooms and how they leave them is disguisting. They are rude, they are trepassing and they choose to live this life style. I do not want my tax dollars to be used in this manner.
Use your vote to stop this continued support to stop the enablers.
We some new terminology. These people are not ‘homeless’. They are mentally disturbed individuals who have made some very poor lifestyle decisions and the chickens have come home to roost. This results in them sleeping on the streets and such. The drugs, booze, and general lack of responsibility was just too much for them to refuse. They need to be dealt with in a ‘tough love’ manner, not the ‘bleeding heart, give them a free ride’ mentality.
A small but growing segment of the homeless population are individuals, many senior citizens, in their vehicles. What is being and can be done for them?
As long as Walnut Creek has a Homeless task force Concord should bus their homeless to Walnut Creek so they can really understand the issue.
Bus them all to San Francisco. It’s so bad over there already the mayor wouldn’t even notice a couple hundred more street people.