1000%. it’s all about the money. Sure there are some agencies that do good work but the corrupt ones just outshine everyone. Hard earned tax payer monies!!!!!

You think there's money in helping homeless people? SMDH...

@@CBlargh There is.

@@CBlargh Billions and billions in helping them stay right where they are, on the streets.

Homelessness is a business for them. The bigger the problem, the bigger business for them, a bunch of crooks! These crooks funded the election and reflection campaigns for the Dems. The money goes back and forth between them.

Past time.

Don't go to LA, SF, and Oakland. Trashes, Poops, Pees on the streets everywhere

Time to clean government and get younger and smart people

Time to let them move in with you Since you don't want them on the street Where do you think they're going 🤡

I hope they raise your money mouth taxes to do it...😊

But… would be the immediate response from every single advocate. The typical “not in my back yard”.

Or the ever popular​ "i would if i had room."@@missmable2470

Their job is to promote homelessness so as to ask for more funding. The larger the group is, the more the funds they can ask. Who said anything about solving homelessness?

Since you want them gone so bad, you take them in.

After all these years, supreme court said ok to arrest? Why don’t we ship homeless people to the home of 9 Supreme Court judges?

They want to keep their independence. The current shelter system take away their civil rights.

if they dont want housing then they are mentally ill unless they like living like hippies or gypsies and in that case,they could have special designated camping sites. The ones who reject services should be forced into rehab mental treatment housing.They cant get into regular housing because they dont have mental capacity to care for their own place apparently.

Public areas are for everyone, including those unhoused, who ARE the PUBLIC. The problem is, communities are not providing adequate PUBLIC SPACES, water, BATHROOMS, SHOWERS, REST AREAS, for the unhoused. They are forcing them to live in tents, by not MINIMALLY providing adequate areas for the unhoused. It is a BLAME GAME, and now they can criminalize them, which will blow-up in their face too.

@@user-di6pk8ez2ythe unhoused are not the public. They are people using public services they have not paid for. The public are tax payers. The public are paying for spaces and services they cannot use because of the homeless. Pls be fr.

@@luv22119 Sorry, but you are incorrect. Every human is still a part of the general public. You don’t have to be a tax payer to be a part of society. That is even considered in how our census are taken. They count the homeless as “REAL PEOPLE” too. Imagine that.

Don’t Be Ridiculous The Homeless are not Getting 42K you done Gone Crazy if you Believe that BS

$42k. 40k of that goes to administration.

You can't let derelicts ruin every public space

Just like the nimbys that caused this by stopping homes from being built

He’s not a complete fool.

Even in socialist countries like China or the former USSR if you were homeless or wanted some social benefits you had to provide some value to society. Or you're voluntold to work in the Gulags. If homeless people want to be sheltered I'm all for it. They're also going to be responsible for maintaining the property like facility maintenance, janitorial, etc. Whatever skillset they have and transition them back to society. If they don't want to do that not our problem. You can't help people who don't want to be helped themselves.

Right, almost as if he's not a progressive at all and the people who told you that were lying to you...

Our next President!

Nimbys stopped housing and rehabs from being built and don't want to deal with the consequences of that

There is no solution. Homeless people have existed since the beginning of Mankind. People that contribute nothing to society, should get NOTHING. Unless theyre literally disabled or elderly (having contributed in their youth).

⁠@@RandomRabbit007I personally don’t have a problem helping the poor, mentally challenged and even drug addicts. I just don’t think they have a right to plop a tent down any old place and start a party. I as a homeowner am not legally allowed to camp on a sidewalk, why are they?

Yeah and When they Snatch you for Just Being Alive say the Same Thing

@@dei-wan-grey3888 legally they would have to give you an opportunity to leave before issuing any fines. Nobody is just getting snatched up. This will be used by municipalities that wish to protect public spaces for the uses that we as the public have collectively agreed upon. Some municipalities may feel perfectly fine letting anyone including homeless people to camp anywhere. Others may not. The citizens of those municipalities will have the right to vote in the leaders that will respond as they wish.

😂😂😂😂😂

Mental problems

People deciding? These are human beings, just like you. They need proper healthcare and wellness care.

@@ginalee7704 Humans need proper healthcare and wellness care. Labeling things does not change the fact that all humans have basic needs. We are ALL human beings -- none better or worse than the next.

180 thousand people didn’t voluntarily opt out of society smh this can be you in 10 years

Lmao

Purple shows a lack of decision making skills and general poor intelligence. I wouldn't put her in charge of cleaning my toilet. This from The Marina Times... Quote- What are Friedenbach’s qualifications? She doesn’t really have any. Her vague résumé includes a lot of fundraising and, prior to COH, serving as director of the Hunger and Homeless Action Coalition of San Mateo County. Her skill set, as thin as her résumé, touts “a long history of community organizing, working on a range of poverty-related issues including welfare rights, housing, homeless prevention, health care, disability, and human and civil rights.” COH is also opaque in their 990 filing, required by the IRS to verify that nonprofits should keep their tax-exempt status. It’s no secret the IRS rarely audits these forms, particularly for smaller organizations, but 990s should provide an overview of nonprofit revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities, as well as sum up the group’s mission, indicate who sits on its board of directors, and state the highest-paid employees’ pay. The COH mission statement tells you what the rest of the 990 will look like (and that they need to hire a copy editor). “Our vision of our city is where housing is a human right where homelessness is only ever temporary and dignified and where those are forced to remain on dignified and where those are forced to remain on…” it rambles and repeats. (And yes, those are the exact words.) For 2021, COH lists salaries, other compensation, and employee benefits as $487,511 with 10 people receiving the title “Individual Trustee or Director,” but the only salary goes to Friedenbach (a paltry 50,340 for the listed 40-hour workweek). So, where did the other $437,171 go? Your guess is as good as mine. -End of quote.

Don't forget her signature red glasses.

Classic Jennifer Friedenbach response, homeless pimp extraordinare

She has her own style . You do what you are told to do. 🐑

"It" 😂😂😂😂 lmao

California has shelters? Sacramento has 2 men's shelters and 3 women's shelters each shelter holds may be 30-50 people. even though homeless men are 3 to 1 ?drug and alcohol programs are run by private Insurance companies . MediCaid doesn't cover that (MediCaid is now run by private insurance at the State's expense. The Corporations make the rules). Most of the missions have been close down because of the conflict of state and religious issues. Sanfran at one time had 3 Men Shelters 2 of them held over 160 each and the 3rd was a Homeless Vet Shelter. They Closed one of those down So San Fran is down to 1 men's shelter beside the Salvation Army in the TL which only Holds about 30 men. You obviously have no Idea what you are talking about. What you say Might have been True in the 8Os and even up to the Mid 90s but no Longer. Most of Homeless in CA are those over 65 receiving SSi/SSA/SSDI . And Cant Afford to live anywhere. So they give up and buy Drugs and become addicts. Tiny Communities?? OOO How Yuppie of you???? Ya that house house Families ? the one in Sacramento houses 20 Families. THAT'S it. There s over 10k of people homeless in Sacramento . Image LA and SanFran it's even worse. "They don't want to participate in society" That's a ignorant assumption which lacks logic and evidence.

You obviously have no Idea what you are talking about ? What you say Might have been True in the 8Os and even up to the Mid 90s but no Longer ? @@roboparks There are a total of 272 Homeless shelters in California as of June 15, 2024 "They don't want to participate in society" That's a ignorant assumption which lacks logic and evidence ? I do research on the internet. You use your internet to make make yourself look foolish.

Ah yes, the “individuals should be responsible for fixing systemic problems” argument, never not the stupidest response to any situation.

@@coreywiley3981 maybe if you took one in you’d realize that it isn’t a “systemic” issue but an INDIVIDUAL issue.

@@coreywiley3981 No, it’s not the most “stupidest” response. And the fact you used the word “stupidest” makes you sound like a 5-year-old. The point OP was trying to make is these homeless “advocates” seem to only spew nonsense while doing absolutely nothing. What good does it do when all the “advocates” do is just whine and complain? Actions speak louder than words. Whining and complaining and making this issue everyone else’s problem isn’t going to solve it. Every single adult in this society has the responsibility to contribute and not burden the community. Having innate mental health issues is one thing. But most of these people got to where they are because of their own actions. And most of them refuse help even if offered. The city and taxpayers spend millions and millions of dollars to make these resources available to them. What more do you want? Literally wake up and grow up, and stay in your lane. You’re done.

@@FlyBoyMT It is a systemic problem. The average non-rich person does not have the resources to take in homeless people; they are more often than not economically strained themselves. On the other hand, our society our government has BEYOND the capacity to house everyone and provide a broad scope of services and benefits. This would be the ethical way to deal with the problem, a way that respects the complex diversity of people and human circumstances. You conservatives and "just get a job," "just do this, just do that" have a simplistic and unattainable idea in your mind that doesn't fit the reality of the human condition. It is an ignorant mindset, and it is a cruel mindset.

you must be one of those religious cultists...keep that in-mind when you're on the street...considering more than 75% of Americans have less than $1000 in their bank accounts. the scotus just ruled the SEC can't oversee stocks and trading....it won' be long before everyone is on the street.

PREACH 📠

It's time

Yes we need to have tourists go back to these big cities ! Some small towns and recreational areas are sick of tourists and crowds - love this - keep our cities nice and safer

Omg local officials can’t make sensible decisions 😂, so now they can how stupid is that 😮

unfortunately, you are correct and in many of these cities they will simply write the laws so that this type of behavior can continue. The people in LA have already come out and said they will not enforce this law.

The laws already exist, and have existed for thousands of years. The ruling allows us to go back to normal

I'm gonna check wikipedia if that is an absolute fact. Every homeless person has just been painted with the same brush.

are you kidding me? all my life i had a place to sleep.

They have and are doing that, except, they are giving them to the migrants.

They’re making money.

Because they see their gravy train leaving the station!

It hurts their funding.

@@Scott-hr9yc money

or because they have more compassion and worry about what happens if those people they advocate for are forced off the streets into incarceration instead at a huge tax payers expense,How will that help them?

There were mental institutions once before Reagan closed them all!

And it isn't fair to the poor that actually use the sidewalks and that need the parks.

some landlords only take large amounts of money.Maybe some landlords arent able to take in the sick people ,so they got to go somewhere.

These people could be off the street and in housing a rehab tomorrow if bleeding hearts didn’t keep enabling their self destruction. Housing is not the issue with people living in encampments it’s drugs and always has been. Housing first has always been a lie to get more government fund to funnel to their union crony friends with juicy government contracts.

Banning corporate homeownership is just anti-renter NIMBYism.

There are plenty of beds, but these people don't want to abide by the rules of not doing their drugs and such required to stay in them. This has been proven time and time again. Perhaps you should do your homework before commenting on what you do not know.

It’s not the Supreme Courts job to create legislation.

how is rent affected in NY's poor areas when Joe allowed in a few hundred thousand migrants, that need housing?

To work.

@@zrllzryou often need an address to work many places won’t hire homeless people

@pennythefirst2772 Stop. You have no idea what you're talking about. I know you're either making money off of these programs or you are some how associated with them. So you have to push this nonsense. I challenge anyone reading this to Google San Francisco's homeless projects and initiatives, and see how easy it is to be evaluated for free housing, food, money, and even government sponsored free drugs. Things the working class have to pay for. Not only for the homeless, but also for ourselves, and yet they still say it's not enough. We know your scam now. Gavin Newsome "lost" 24 billion dollars of our money that was supposed to go to homeless. No thanks. I've given enough. Complain to the government. You can Google all of this.

Homeless shelters? 😆

You think they have families? I don't.

the homeless are divided into the mental ill ones and the ones who are poor and cant get a good job or afford rent. Not all are druggies,but those who are cant always go back to families if they are addicted or not trusted. They need rehab housing provided.

best comment i've seen here so far. Can't feed and house the poor, the mentally ill, the disabled, and yes, even the addicted and so what if they're addicts, you don't know their stories, and are there really people that genuinely want to be homeless, really?

They are feeding them.

It works around the world and has worked for thousands of years. Cities have rules.

@@MinusEighty like favelas in brazil?!

Explain? What's capitalism got to do with self destruction?

@@zrllzr JUDAS CAPITALIZED.... THE INNOCENT SUFFERED ! BARRABAS THE SCAPEGOAT WAS A THEIF.... DONALD TRUMP ?

SF HSH is big mad too.

Well Ronald, when your daughter, on her way to school, has to step over needles in the driveway of a home you have owned for 2 generations, at the same moment you see a passed out homeless junkie sleeping it off in the flower bed that your wife just planted… you might just think otherwise.

Breaking the law is a crime

They should identify as undocumented immigrants to get extra benefits.

Think, homelessness is not the problem the camping on public street is, go camp out of site. I lived in Portland and they professional homeless don't want to find a solution, the lifestyle beset them. Being homeless should not be comfortable, so you don't stay homeless.

Look where that mindset has gotten all of the large Blue cities...

Get your funky ass off the streets and into a A) job and home, B) rehab or C) 3 hots and a cot 🚓

The Supreme Court did not ban people from sleeping in public. They just said it’s constitutional for local municipalities to decide how and to what degree they want to handle this problem. You need to vote the right people into your local government that will allow the homeless to camp wherever they want. I for one think it’s stupid for people to expect that just because they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for there home or business and an additional thousands of dollars a year in taxes that they should not have someone in a tent doing fentanyl or meth all night on their front sidewalk. We need to share the land. We are all equal. The trash and pee smell is just a bonus.

​@@Winstonrodney6989They're not all drug addicts many of them have full time jobs.

@@stevemora7845 what you say is definitely true. It would be nice to create a place for them to go which wasn’t a public park or sidewalk. If only there was a way for the public, the politicians and the homeless people themselves to communicate and have dialogue and come up with a solution. I won’t hold my breath though. The billions already spent haven’t provided any visible results.

Better than letting them live in squalor on the sidewalk. Does that seem like compassion to you ?

Maybe the junkies should spend more money on housing and less on the drugs

How about your home?

@@billmoran3219 180,000 people at my home smh ok 🫏

Post your address. Put up or shut up

In your house… let them in … it’s their right!

How about in a GD shelter?

Why do we have to run people's lives for them? So many people who want the rest of us to pay for/manage their lives.

They work it out. They call family and make up, they knock on the door of the church that they went to as a kid, they agree to go to a shelter and to abide by the shelter's rules, they agree to get into a program. They leave California and return to their home town where they have more support and a lower cost of living. Lot's of options.

@@VolcanoKing-dj5px we live in a society. We’re supposed to look out for each other and work together. I was jogging last week around Centennial Park with my dog and I literally witnessed a homeless man die on a bench. I saw him slump over as I was passing him. When I came back around on my second lap, I saw him surrounded with first responders, not moving. That’s when I realized what I saw. Watching someone die on the street in one of the richest countries in world will change your perspective. They scraped together billions for Ukraine and Israel though. Sorry if I think Americans deserve better.

@@MinusEighty if there were lots of options, our homeless population wouldn’t be where it is friend. Many do not have options or family. Have you seen the numbers for homeless children? Staggering and disturbing. Sorry, with the amount of wealth flowing through this country, no one can convince me that the current status quo is the best that can be done.

@@ashleybrown6299 Wrong. When you let people camp everywhere you get more people camping everywhere. You have to have rules.