This is really a huge problem this homeless problem

submitted by popcorn from self.whatever

I've told it before that I was homeless in San Francisco for 3 years and I'm going to tell you I've seen it all.

This video shows how they are clearing out a homeless encampment that is pretty large, but these people are just going to move down the street to another camp.

This is a problem that you cannot fix with free housing and free money, in fact it is free housing and free money that has literally caused this problem.

This problem exists in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Portland and Seattle and pretty much every other major city of the United States and one day this problem will be so very big it is impossible to move it like they do in this video.

https://youtu.be/qVL38_qnxzQ

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[–]Youdundeeditnah 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

kill all the homeless ... problem solved

[–]pattis 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

》kill all the homeless

The problem with that is is that if we kill all the homeless The Next Step will be to kill everybody that earns less than a million dollars a year which would include both you and me and probably everyone in this forum

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We just need to build prison camps for them.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You mean lunatic asylums.

[–]1Icemonkey 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hitler wouldn’t have tolerated this crap. Just saying.

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Serious question to u/popcorn - What do you think fixes the problem? Or at least helps a bit, if there is no fix? I'm interested in your perspective, having been homeless.

[–]popcorn[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What do you think fixes the problem?

https://files.catbox.moe/f0t9mi.mp3

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thank you Edward. I sincerely appreciate your considered response. This is the sort of thing that makes Saidit so important.

[–]Maggotus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Maybe if they actually spent the half billion dollars they were given in California cities on the actual homeless problem it might have helped some. But the homeless have to want the help too. If it means staying clean then the homeless want nothing to do with it.

[–]pattis 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The majority of the homeless people that you saw in that video are quite simply drug addicts usually they are addicted to meth.

I know this for a fact because I was homeless in that City for 3 years and I slept in meth camps I had privilege to do that I was homies with one of the most well-known street level meth dealers. I used to help him shoot up sometimes he couldn't find a vein sometimes and oh my God he shot a lot of dope. I remember when he was dealing you know one of the Privileges of being the street level connection is that your supplier gives you as much dope as you can shoot but one day he f***** up and he stole some little guys dope because he was out that day and that little guy had a cousin that is a big white boy gangster in the streets and now my friend went from being a top level Street dealer to get in his ass whipped every time he comes out and so now he's not the dealer anymore but now he's on the Run he gets his ass kicked every time he comes out and he has to scrap to find slivers of the drug