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QUESTION: What do you think politicians should do about the homeless problem in Contra Costa County?
Talk about it.
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The politicians ( from both parties) should pay lip service to homelessness. Thank god there are nice ladies who feed the homeless.
don’t agree with the latter;
they are enablers…
oh… my bad…
you were being sarcastic !
They need to stop inviting thieves to Concord to get freee food and leave with other peoples stuff.
Close our southern border where all the drugs are coming in from. We don’t have a homeless problem, we have a drug problem.
Unless you can hermetically seal the country and somehow control all of the lab equipment and chemicals nothing will stop fentanyl. 1 kg of the stuff (the size of a brick) is about 500,000 lethal doses. You can stop most of it and still have a significant problem. Increased border control might only push manufacturing into the US since the labs are relatively small.
Doing something is better than doing nothing. Inaction shouldn’t be an option.
This is 100% correct! I work in a place where we help the homeless and the street people, and almost every single case is due to drug use! We need to start getting tough on them. We’re not helping the homeless by Molly coddling them. We maybe should start treating him like s*** like in the old days when they called them bums.
Give those individuals (the hardcore druggies) an option of either kicking the habit and getting help or place them in prison.
Hear me out. We can never get rid of the drugs. But we can get rid of the habitual users. Just let EVERYTHING in for a few months. They will kill themselves and dry up the demand. Win-win.
Sleeping on the streets and parks has to be made illegal. Parking your RV on streets has to be made illegal. Put all the druggies in rehab until they are rehabbed. What’s left put in a camp with amenities, food, shelter, toilets, showers, shade and park benches. Oh and trash cans that are serviced. Help them find a job.
(It will never get done. They just like to talk about it. Spend money on things that don’t work.)
Yep, agree, put in a camp, maybe on the weapons station land. If you have a camp where they can pitch their tents (just like on the streets) then some cr@p a$$ judge can’t force the city to let it happen.
Only if they cannot come in and out.
We need to go back to how we were handling the homeless community.
1. Open up an area that the homeless can be (maybe part of the Naval Weapons Station). If homeless are on the street after a certain time – bring them there. Also, since we already provide services, have the services at that location. Also, provide porta pottys.
2. Reopen the mental health institutions.
I understand that some people’s circumstances threw them into homelessness (my heart goes out to them) but for all those that just don’t want to “follow the rules”, pay taxes, drugs, alcohol – they should be in rehabs or mental institutions. They are already taxing our monies, health, patience and properties….they must be held accountable too rather than just leaching off others. We are experiencing homeless at our doors, and on our property which is threatening.
You know, maybe we can SEND THEM to the cities that really love them like Oakland , Berkeley and San Francisco. They are the sanctuary & loving -cities of tolerance , inclusion
diversity & accrptance. There they are treated very well, given $400 a month subsidies, all kinds of food and places to use their drugs and pitch their tents. Send them away from here!
For some reason people here think that all the homeless are using drugs. The stats show that only around 30% have a drug problem. How about Bidenflation? That can result in homelessness. It’s like they don’t care if the majority in the country wind up in poverty because they get their ideal result: submission of the masses. Those behind this who we vastly outnumber need to be rounded up, prosecuted and their vast wealth taken from them. They should be the first in line to be put into poverty and homelessness (though I think we can arrange small room for them somewhere).
Same stats that said Hilary would win in a landslide?
You cant be serious.
%95 on drugs
Look it up. While we’re at it what about the stats for the “homefull” on drugs? 🤣
@Captain
That 30% number is based on self-reports of “struggling with substance abuse”. Meaning that it under-reports the real number by 2 fold or even more.
Anyone who’s ever dealt with substance abuse problems knows that the main feature of people with drug/alcohol addiction is… denial that there is an addiction. And also blaming everything and everybody for their problems (e.g. “Bidenflation”).
So – anecdotal observations of 90% homeless being addicts are more likely to be correct than the “expert” surveys. Especially because “experts” conducting the surveys are usually the enablers (aka “homeless advocates”).
Reasons nothing will happen:
1- No vagrancy laws enforced.
2- Most(95%+) do not want rehab. 5150 holds are useless.
3- Plenty of civil rights lawyers available
4- DA’s office won’t prosecute
Understand that there is an entire homeless industry soaking up tax dollars with no solutions
coming, as they don’t have any. It’s a scam.
Thats why nothing will happen. The courts and civil rights group are running everything. Same reason men who think they are women can compete in women’s sports. If people keep voting democrat or rino nothing changes
Enforce the laws we have for once and stop the multitudes of handouts…. that is enabling .. for those with mental issues – offer mandatory help that can’t be refused… they’re a danger to themselves and the rest of us
Politics is the problem!
They need to quit enabling them with all the hand outs. They come here knowing they will get there basic needs given to them while continuing on there own destructive path. Second I would cut down the amount of Airbnb houses allowed per city. This takes up a lot of housing in areas where there is no where else to create more. Only person this serves is those who own them and Airbnb, all this while not having to abide by the same rules and safety as hotels and motels.
There is no housing shortage,your idea would change nothing.
WHEN WILL THEY LEARN,
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Then why do we keep building more housing? Why do we have a residential housing industry? Why are housing prices and rents usually on the rise? If you believe the government numbers when it comes to our illegal alien population, then our population increases by just over 2-million people a year on average since we hit a population 300 million in 2006, if you don’t believe the government numbers when it comes to our illegal alien population, then our population increases by well over 2-million to 3-million people a year on average, while we’re building far less housing. I’d like to see less legal immigration, no illegal immigration, a slower population growth, and less housing being built, but that’s just not where we are.
SICK OF IT,
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Wherever housing currently exists there is room to create more housing. It just may not be the same type of housing that currently exists there, and may not be they type of housing that citizens living in those areas want. In wealthy parts of Los Angeles County owners are tearing down an existing mansion or mansions to build much larger single mansions. In downtown Concord, we’re building 5-story, 6-story, and 7-story apartment buildings where single-family homes once existed, when we could be building to the city height limit with 20-story apartment buildings. Yes, you can limit the number of Airbnb units in a particular area, but that doesn’t mean the owners would then make those homes available for full-time rental units.
More housing won’t stop the ‘unhoused’ situation.
Believe a CA bill recently passed makes it easier to create housing for homeless.
So lets use all the empty bart parking lots an turn them into housing for homeless.
It’s obvious bart no longer needs all those parking spaces since DEMs are so far along in their SF conversion.
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Homeless would have premier access to transportation alternatives.
ORIGINAL G,
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Do you live near a BART station? I do, NO THANKS!!! BART already has plans for all of their parking lots, and while I’m not thrilled with and don’t support those plans, the conversion of BART parking lots into homeless housing, as you suggest, will only further hurt the suburban neighborhoods in Concord and other cities that surround those BART stations. Your suggestion doesn’t hurt BART, it only hurts everyday hard working Americans that live near BART stations. Why would you support a plan that doesn’t help BART, doesn’t really help the homeless, only hurts your fellow non-homeless citizens, and further hurts the cities that have BART stations?
This whole thing is such a mess starting with stupid politicians creating the problem and then dumping the responsibility onto local politicians who do not have the skills to fix it and should not be expected to have those skills. I’m not sure how to fix it either but I’m rather sure it won’t be fixed by high density housing or enabling the lifestyle through weak laws and food subsidies.
The federal gov’t owns 96% of the state of Nevada…………..build a massive encampment out there and ship ’em to the desert……..or is it dessert? whatever
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