Not around here. We are in a rural area.

Not surprising that the homeless tend to migrate to where they are welcomed and given free reign to squat wherever they want.

Yep, they're all over...I almost think someone's paying them to move to Oregon

There are a few that I believe to be actually homeless, but it's difficult to tell the con artist type of panhandler from the true homeless. I wouldn't say their numbers have increased; it seems to have stayed about the same.

There are no homeless people in Iowa.

Oh, I forgot this one.

A Vehicle Can Count as a Home

Based on a 123-year law called 'The Homestead Act', which prevents governments from forcing a person to sell their home to satisfy debts.

Some city residents are walking up, each morning, to find a derelict RV parked on their street. Replete with questionable occupants, in most situations.

But wait, wait. Our southerly neighbors, in Oregon, have upped the ante. This is hysterical.

Offer yard to a homeless family, and county will build you a granny flat

And WA State intend to up the ante, with DADU's - Detached Alternate Dwelling Units. Or backyard cottages.

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Originally posted by cjevans:
They all have somehow, travelled to WA state.

The city of Seattle are proposing a tax on big businesses - think Amazon - to 'fight' homelessness.

Nope, not to move them on, but to provide assistance. Even a safe place for heroin addicts to shoot up, under the watchful supervisory eye of volunteer medical staff. If your moral compass is wonky, there's a vacant City position available, full time, pays $30-$35 per hour.

And there is millions available, from the City of Seattle, for homeless service contracts.

Seattle homelessness response

They camp under the I-5 flyovers, on the street pavements, in makeshift camps ... the sights, the sounds, the smells, illegal dumping.


I am looking for the stats and the links - I recall one alleged camp in Tacoma numbering some 2000.

The sirens are sounding ...

If anything, there seems to be fewer in the Spokane area than in the past. They may be migrating to Seattle or Tacoma.

We were in the Seattle area a couple of weeks ago and we were shocked at the number of homeless people and the shanty towns that have sprouted up. We used to enjoy spending time in Seattle, but as far as I'm concerned, that will the last time we'll ever go there. Such a shame!

Jim

So according to that granny flat shit, they are giving them trailers? To make a trailer park?

I've been traveling to LA, Oakland and SF for the past 18 years. I run and bike hundreds of miles a month, mainly on bike paths. I've noticed it first hand. It's noticeably worse. Not just in the numbers, but in the critical mass.

I have a customer with a large oil lease in urban Los Angeles and they are now dealing with homeless encampments. Not just a bum sleeping off a buzz, but a full on encampment with multiple shopping carts etc.

When I'd get of BART and walk three blocks to our SF office, I'd notice several homeless people. And I'd run along Embarcadero and find even more.

Now in Oakland, where you used to have one or two under a freeway overpass. Now it's one continuous campsite - dozens under one overpass. Around Lake Merritt, the bums now have lake front property.

In Los Angeles, even with recent purges along the Santa Ana bike trail, the homeless are much more visible. On Tuesday, I ran from Long Beach upstream of the LA river and found countless.

In Sacramento, they overtook the bike trails at Discovery Park (where the Sacramento and American River join). Sac PD pushed them upriver and now they're along the first mile of the bike trail heading into Del Paso Heights.

What I've noticed is the institutionalization of the homeless. It's no longer a single person. It's dozens of people, dogs, pets, more shopping carts than Walmart, dozens of bikes etc.

In coastal enclaves like Santa Monica, Marina del Rey, etc., you have homeless people in their 1978 Winnabego, dumping crap in the gutters, and moving their heaps 10' every 72 hours. Million dollar 1,000 sf homes with druggie homeless camped outside.

Only in California!

None around me.

I don’t miss the homeless population we had when I lived in Anchorage and in Calgary. It takes a certain amount of dedication to be homeless year around in Alaska and Alberta. Tent cities in the winter, inebriated homeless passed out on sidewalks in winter, panhandling, etc.

My office in Anchorage was near a native corporation and shareholders could get their dividend from the office. We had one homeless native male we’d find having sex in the parking garage, passed out with a needle in his arm, vomiting all over coffee shop restroom, weaving (couldn’t stay on the sidewalk weaving) down a sidewalk at 8 AM, etc.

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Originally posted by lkdr1989:
Yep, they're all over...I almost think someone's paying them to move to Oregon

Or more like they know where liberals will tolerate them.

Philly, Democrat shithole, has a growing homeless/panhandler problem. Out in the rest of PA where it's much more conservative for the most part, not so much.

My hometown has gone down the drain since the import of a soup kitchen and homeless advocate service (provides mail drops and showers etc.). Needles, shit in business doorways, dumping, fires, panhandling, loss of public parks, and all of the associated problems that go with it.

It has gotten so bad that the homeless have an actual voice in the government. Recently, the city proposed removing the unsightly concrete benches from the '80's and replacing them with wrought iron benches. The city was accused of trying to remove places where people can "lay down" and backed off of the redesign.

Not in my town in Texas.

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Originally posted by punch out:

It has gotten so bad that the homeless have an actual voice in the government.

Check out Sacramento City Hall. There's a permanent campsite under the overhang. A dozen campers at all times.

I don't know about homeless, but I have seen an increase of the panhandlers at street intersections, those with stop lights.

Some have signs, others just walk along the median strip asking for cash.

We don't give them anything. Between the social benefits and other freebie organizations they have more than enough opportunities to get something to eat.

none around here. They don't seem to survive long in the woods.

Where I live out in the `burbs, no. But here in town where I work, they're definitely on the increase. One of them (I assume) prowled my car last week right in our building's private parking lot.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
There are no homeless people in Iowa.

We do have Ninjas!

But seriously folks, there seems to be a large number in "the big city" of Davenport, where the enablers feed them. Here's an article about one of the kitchens:

http://qctimes.com/news/local/...ce-378fa614a768.html

I see these presumably homeless people panhandling at some of the I-74 on/off ramps.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
There are no homeless people in Iowa.

We do have Ninjas!

Dang. Times are changin'

In Seattle yes, it's getting outrageous. Might as well be a favela in spots. We have even had a few in the nowhere town I work in.

Not in my neck of the woods (Alberta). But it’s -30C for several months, so I guess that helps diminishing the numbers.