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The report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released Friday has laid bare the problem of rising homelessness that has been plaguing an array of states, but none of them has experienced a crisis of the proportions that one of the wealthiest states in the country, California, is now facing.Why isn't Silicon Valley stepping in to help solve a problem they had a large hand in creating? 3 billion to create SOME sort of solution is peanuts to them.
21,306 more people have been homeless on at least a single night in California than last year, which amounts to an increase of 16.4 percent, the report says. California's "contribution" to the report has effectively rendered null the progress noted around the country, as the homeless population has plummeted in 29 states and Washington, DC.
Overall, HUD reported an increase of 14,885 people from last year, which brings the total in the US to about 568,000.
The primary reason for the spike in homelessness on the West Coast is that the cost of housing there remains "extremely high," Carson said. California is also home to a peculiar phenomenon known as 'working homeless', brought forth by exorbitant rent prices fueled by the burgeoning tech industry. The inability to afford rent drives not only the vulnerable population, such as veterans and single mothers, to the streets, but also employees who are not well off enough to cover the costs of housing.
The fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates was $34,704.12 ($94.82 per day) in FY 2016 and $36,299.25 ($99.45 per day) in FY 2017. The average annual cost to confine an inmate in a Residential Re-entry Center was $29,166.54 ($79.69 per day) for FY 2016 and $32,309.80 ($88.52 per day) for FY 2017.[Link]
i WAS a working class homeless that lived on the street.I never would have guessed. Here in the midwest, you see very few working homeless. You do see "professional" bums though. The levels of organization we've seen in recent years is actually disgusting when you think about it. They can figure out schedules for who will be panhandling where and when, but somehow you can't get your shit together enough to bathe and find a job. I saw the same woman on the same corner at the same time of day for over 6 months. I saw people hand her cash, clothing, and food. Yet she always wore the same stinky cloths with an unwashed face.
Launching a crowdfunding campaign during the holidays is not ideal, but I have no choice. By not taking a salary for the last few years, I have exhausted all financial means to get this project launched, and I am now many months behind on my mortgage payment and all bills, with no cash or credit left. Every donation - and clicking the share button - truly matters for this project, myself, my family, and eventually for the people Iโm trying to helpHow appropriate that one man's noble "vision" for a homeless city is nothing more than a giant online pandhandling campaign, one which is trying to raise $50,000 goal to make Nason's life more palatable.
The first step towards fixing the homeless situation is separating the two groups in your heads and coming up with two separate plans to fix the issue.
When the free ride becomes wide spread knowledge ...space for 1.5 million won't be enough.
Let me guess the idea was floated by a conservative politician that has a bigger heart than a brain.
Oh boy the insanity of the liberally minded is undiscribable, all of us will just through off the curse altogether and quite our jobs and live happily ever after.