Nearly 4% Decrease in Homelessness Countywide

I guess I can throw some rocks back at them :)

People really don’t like the thought they can’t afford it here. I mean, an obvious choice to move in times of hardship doesn’t even occur to some. So instead they stick around, complain, throw their hands up and act like everyone who can afford it should pay their way.

It’s as simple as you say it is. A lot of the people “close” to experiencing homelessness should consider moving inland instead of acting like they deserve to live just anywhere.

oh, wait, that was when he was elected Mayor of SF back in 2003. Does anyone remember if we eliminated homeless back in 2013 and it resurged?

oops, hold on, wait again. In 2008 he had plan, a better plan, to tackle homelessness, how'd he do? https://elamerican.com/gavin-newsom-promised-in-2008-to-solve-homelessness/

Politics - the only line of work where you can fail up.

oh wow.... lol look at you go!

LOL, you haven't been paying attention to the corporate world of the last fifty years have you. Politics is most definitely not the only place you can fail upwards.

Fair

Up over 28% over last decade
2013 PIT 1,466
2022 PIT 1,887

CA is spending several BILLION dollars a year on homelessness... only for the problem to get worse. Unfortunately, they take the same approach they do with our public education system: poor results = it's just needs more money! No, it couldn't possibly HOW we're doing things, no way, the problem is we need more money to do more of the same things (that aren't working). Idiocracy at it's finest.

How much money annually is the government dishing out to the impoverished in red states that are constantly on the dole?

Red states fall 1.5 percentage points below the national average for high school completion rate (84.2% vs. 85.7%), and 3.3 percentage points below the national average for college degree attainment (25.1% vs. 28.4%).

Blue states, in comparison, perform slightly above the national averages—by 0.8 and 2 percentage points, respectively.

Maybe we could have used some of this money on the homeless situation in our country... GW and the repugs really wanted that war - so much so they invented the intelligence to justify it.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - From an empowered Iran and eroded U.S. influence to the cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria to combat Islamic State fighters, the United States still contends with the consequences of invading Iraq 20 years ago, current and former officials say.

Then-U.S. President George W. Bush's 2003 decision to oust Saddam Hussein by force, the way limited U.S. troop numbers enabled ethnic strife and the eventual 2011 U.S. pullout have all greatly complicated U.S. policy in the Middle East, they said.

The end of Saddam's minority Sunni rule and replacement with a Shi'ite majority government in Iraq freed Iran to deepen its influence across the Levant, especially in Syria, where Iranian forces and Shi'ite militias helped Bashar al-Assad crush a Sunni uprising and stay in power.

The 2011 withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Iraq left a vacuum that Islamic State (ISIS) militants filled, seizing roughly a third of Iraq and Syria and fanning fears among Gulf Arab states that they could not rely on the United States.

Having withdrawn, former U.S. President Barack Obama in 2014 sent troops back to Iraq, where about 2,500 remain, and in 2015 he deployed to Syria, where about 900 troops are on the ground. U.S. forces in both countries combat Islamic State militants, who are also active from North Africa to Afghanistan.

"Our inability, unwillingness, to put the hammer down in terms of security in the country allowed chaos to ensue, which gave rise to ISIS," said former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, faulting the U.S. failure to secure Iraq.

Armitage, who served under Republican Bush when the United States invaded Iraq, said the U.S. invasion "might be as big a strategic error" as Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, which helped bring about Germany's World War Two defeat.

MASSIVE COSTS

The costs of U.S. involvement in Iraq and Syria are massive.

According to estimates published this week by the "Costs of War" project at Brown University, the U.S. price tag to date for the wars in Iraq and Syria comes to $1.79 trillion, including Pentagon and State Department spending, veterans' care and the interest on debt financing the conflicts. Including projected veterans' care through 2050, this rises to $2.89 trillion.

The project puts U.S. military deaths in Iraq and Syria over the past 20 years at 4,599 and estimates total deaths, including Iraqi and Syrian civilians, military, police, opposition fighters, media and others at 550,000 to 584,000. This includes only those killed as a direct result of war but not estimated indirect deaths from disease, displacement or starvation.

U.S. credibility also suffered from Bush's decision to invade based on bogus, exaggerated and ultimately erroneous intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

John Bolton, a war advocate who served under Bush, said even though Washington made mistakes - by failing to deploy enough troops and administering Iraq instead of quickly handing over to Iraqis - he believed removing Saddam justified the costs.

"only for the problem to get worse" - except in SB County.....

SBLETSGETALONG - what's your plan to help the homeless? I mean, you MUST have an idea or two, right?

GT whatabout whatabout whatabout, sorry Sacjon is slacking these days so I figured I'd jump in with his usual retort. I don't know what red's states spend or do to address this problem, but maybe we should look to them as and see what they're doing, seeing as we have 50% of our nations homeless and on a state level, doesn't show any signs of improving.

VOR - the what about came from you. We have a local article with a little glimmer of good news in it and you bring national politics into the matter and start slinging insults. The fact is the red states slurp up that federal money and taking that assistance - and then their repuglican citizens bitch about big government spending. Pack 40 million people in Mississippi and then tell me if they have a homeless problem. It isn't rocket science. If Republican economic policies are so great for America - then how come 9 out of the 10 poorest states are red states?

GT - you going to finally give credit to Randy Rowse for improving the homeless situation?

GT, you okay? "We have a local article with a little glimmer of good news in it and you bring national politics into the matter and start slinging insults." I mean, I can read, both the comments and the time stamps, so this comment is just more of your typical projecting. Seriously, the rant going back to GW and Iraq? Just ignore that it was a very bipartisan effort and I've made my anti-war feelings very clear here, and unlike you're anti-war feelings, mine don't change based on which party is in the white house.

Well, the migrant workers contribute to our economy in a way no one on this thread does so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bro I paid six figures in taxes last year.

You're welcome.

You're obviously well off... bragging about your property with property tax in the six figures, of course you had to say that. If you are complaining about this county's policies, why are you living here?

Weird flex Alex....

Alex - Great for you bud. We are talking about the backbone of our agricultural production here though, not the pennies you’ve put in.

Most people I know who would pay that level of tax wouldn’t be needing to say so on Edhat, “bro.”

As VOR said, weird flex but ok.

You said that migrant laborers contribute in a way that people on this thread don't, my point is that you have no idea how people on this thread contribute to the economy.

I say what I want "bro." You don't like it, don't respond.

VOR--meh, SBSTONER and others always yammering about the "takers" and the "makers" as if people who don't share their political beliefs are all parasites or a drag on the system.

Bunch of victim claimers.

LOL, if you're talking to me, I'm not complaining about the County's policies. Whatever, go and drink a green beer or something.

As to illegal migrants contributing to society. Do they pay taxes? No
Do they get free healthcare & education, yes.
So how are they contributing to society? Because they do the jobs that Americans are too lazy or good to do?

And over 40% of CA Ag is sold overseas. So who’s profiting from the work from illegal migrants? Not tax payers. Who’s paying for illegal migrants free healthcare & education, tax payers.

And who is using all our water? Ag. To sell almost half overseas. CA residents have to suffer from droughts so a small segment can make a profit. That’s why I have higher water bills and am told to reduce my water use?

Seriously messed up

Question: who decides what laws are ok to “ignore”.
Crossing the border “illegally”. Guess it depends upon your skin color if it’s illegal or not.
Can Europeans come over without getting a visa? No.
Who decides when public defacation & drug use is now legal, only for some people.
Can I get free money & take a leak on the street after going to the Bowl?
Double standards, known as discrimination.
If the law is not a law then repeal it. Otherwise enforce them.

"As to illegal migrants contributing to society. Do they pay taxes? No"

False. Your comments are steeped in ignorance. (And xenophobia.)

Scam, corruption, putting the money in friends pockets.
$25,000 to build a Home Depot 8’x8’ shed. Right they added a toilet.

FEWTILE - where's your evidence that is has not? I'm not buying a bridge from someone who just makes up "facts." That would be terrible bridge buying technique.

They've moved to Noleta; didn't you get the memo.

FEWTILE - huh? Makes no sense. You say homelessness hasn't decreased by "any % pts." Where's your proof?

I actually don't receive the propaganda memos you do.

EDNEY - yup! "within that chart is a very welcome drop of 4%" - which validates my comment that "liberal leadership is not making MORE people homeless." That's all I was saying and your con buddies have been losing it. Glad to see we all agree that this year, there are not MORE homeless people.

Yup! 28% increase over the past decade which validates my comment that "liberal leadership IS making MORE people homeless".

Definition of grasping at straws: Celebrating a single year 4% reduction as a win for leadership in the face of 28% increase over a decade with the same leadership.

Definition of hypocrisy: Celebrating "leadership" for a single year 4% reduction in the face of a 28% increase over the decade and clear directional trend in one area (homelessness), but apply that same logic to climate change: a single year reduction vs. the trend over the past decade and you will see no such celebration but will see emphasis on the trend over the past decade. Hypocrisy.

"comment that "liberal leadership IS making MORE people homeless"." - Not in the last year it's not, not in SB County. Well, now you're just lyin'