Only the very rich and the homeless get to live beachfront.

Not around my area, but don't worry about the homeless, the democrats have a plan to get them all housing, jobs, counseling, a retirement fund and anything else they request!
Don't you have Aunt Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters, and a host of other fellow democrats as a representative and Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris as senators?
With those liberal, progressive genius's in power, you're golden....don't worry, they will take care of everything!

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

Calgary and Edmonton both have a homeless problem because of government enablers. IME, the supermajority of homeless were First Nations.

I lived in Calgary 2 years and Stephen Ave was a PITA due to them all 4 seasons. I went to the McD’s 3x and twice the paddy wagon showed up and the third time I wish they would’ve shown up (McD’s closed and it was just me and this ginormous, aggressive panhandler).

Last summer, I had a homeless guy throw 2 cell phones at me while I was in a business trip to Edmonton. Later that day, my boss had a homeless woman jump on his back and scream in his ear.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:

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

Calgary and Edmonton both have a homeless problem because of government enablers.

Vancouver also has a significant homeless problem.

geez, you were almost right !

http://www.thegazette.com/subj...k-isnt-done-20171225

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Originally posted by parabellum:

Get out of California, Dave. Get out of there.

Sorry, David. I have to agree with Para.

My employer's HQ is just north of SF. I used to like to go downtown for dinner. No more. If it isn't the creeps, it's the feces they leave all over. Ugh.

Portland Oregon and citys around it, is loaded with homeless. Been increasing a lot in the last 10 years. Same with Seattle. Yet there is help wanted signs all over the city I live in near Portland and not just fast food. Lowe's by me starts at $11.50 and hour and they have had a help wanted signs up for 8 months.

We invented the homeless problem, doubled down, and do whatever possible to attract more. My neighborhood is too far up the hill and the local badges are too unfriendly to put up with that shit but otherwise every day is an obstacle course of passed out beggars and the assorted filth. Why we're trying to house the crazy that get shipped here is beyond me. Send them home. Let ma and pa and their hometowns deal with them instead of rolling out the welcome wagon.

Everywhere in liberal Austin here. And increasing.

Not where I am.

We used to be free of the homeless (who used to be referred to as bums ) thanks to Yoop weather.
But local enabling idiots have opened a soup kitchen / warming center. Now all the usual fun has started. Including the intersection begging.
Bonus: Handout registry!
Two signs being held by intersection panhandlers:
"I need a tent and sleeping bag".
"I need a jacket and boots".

Holy crap. Go to the link and watch the video. Junkies lining the hallway of the BART station every morning during rush hour. Hard to believe that a city would allow this nonsense.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...o-civic-center-bart/

Junkies Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station



SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Shocking video is calling attention to what’s going on in one of the busiest BART stations in the Bay Area: junkies blatantly shooting up out in the open as commuters walk by, others slumped along filthy corridors.

It’s a gauntlet commuters walk through every morning at the Civic Center BART and Muni station.

Regular commuter Shannon Gafford knows people have to see it to believe it. “One morning I said, ‘I got to pull out the camera and show my friends this. They’re not going to believe it,’” he said.

And over the course of a week, Gafford documented his trip to work. His videos show dozens of people slumped along a hallway, open IV drug use, unconscious men and women, and piles of vomit on either side of the hallways.

Some may find the video shocking. Others may find it routine.

“Every day. Every morning. 5:30 to 6 o’clock. You can see there’s dozens of them. Needles everywhere. Crack. Heroin.”

“It’s a real concern for our riders, and we appreciate that,” said BART spokesman Chris Filippi. “But what we have to do is make the most of the resources, the limited resources that we have.”

BART, which has been pledging to address the problem, says it’s recruiting more community service officers, more than 30 new sworn officers and 20 new station cleaners. But will that be enough?

“The situation in our BART stations is simply unacceptable,” said San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell. “Borders on disastrous.”

This week, Farrell unveiled a $13 million plan to get needles – among other things – off of city streets. But the city’s jurisdiction ends when you head down those BART stairs.

“I don’t care, at the end of the day, if now we have jurisdictional issues,” said Farrell. “As mayor, I want to get something done, and I want to make sure these BART stations are cleaned up.”

While homeless services are offered to those in the city’s BART stations, Farrell says San Francisco police may be needed because BART admits it is simply overwhelmed by the crisis that has landed in its hallways.

“We’re in the midst of national homelessness crisis, and we’re also in the middle of a drug crisis,” said Filippi. “Unfortunately, as a transit agency, we have limited resources and we’re not really equipped to deal with these social issues.”
No, it's not a national issue, it's a local issue brought about by asinine policies. That shit is not allowed in civilized areas.

So for now, the status quo is a daily commute through a human crisis that shows no end.

“You feel bad for these people in a way. I mean, because you are human, you see them,” said Gafford. “This isn’t going anywhere. It’s getting worse.”

Austin, TX has gotten pretty bad; there are homeless on every corner and living under every underpass. When I am on my motorcycle, I have to hold my breath when going under an overpass as the smell is horrible. San Francisco is the worste I have personally seen; it is out of control in downtown S.F.

A few homeless.
Many, many vagrants and hobos. They migrate here and ply their chosen trades of panhandling, drug dealing, and thievery. Offer them a job or even a place to live and they have no interest. It would interfere with their lifestyle.
Human raccoons, indeed.

Bruce

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
Austin, TX has gotten pretty bad; there are homeless on every corner and living under every underpass. When I am on my motorcycle, I have to hold my breath when going under an overpass as the smell is horrible. San Francisco is the worste I have personally seen; it is out of control in downtown S.F.

And to think back to the 60's and 70's while on a motorcycle and the police would kick us out from under an overpass while waiting out a rainstorm.......

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Livingston County has a support system in effect but also it doesn't play games with the homeless either. They usually are not on corners for long around here.

YES!

They live in run down RV's and park all over Pacifica. Like blight!

We have narrow streets, but they don't care and block the roads.

Police are ordered to stand down by the liberal city council, so when we turn them in to the police, we get "advised" not to complain. I complain at 3x the intensity at that point.

Park your own RV or boat in front of your property and hell itself rains down upon you, but the homeless get a pass.

Good to know the city council represents the bums and not the tax payers.

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Originally posted by fpuhan:

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Originally posted by parabellum:

Get out of California, Dave. Get out of there.

Sorry, David. I have to agree with Para.

My employer's HQ is just north of SF. I used to like to go downtown for dinner. No more. If it isn't the creeps, it's the feces they leave all over. Ugh.

I would love to leave this assbackward ran state, if it wasn't for my business and family.

The population that was here has now been pushed into the surrounding cities.

https://kfiam640.iheart.com/fe...-santa-ana-riverbed/

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Originally posted by shovelhead:

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
Austin, TX has gotten pretty bad; there are homeless on every corner and living under every underpass. When I am on my motorcycle, I have to hold my breath when going under an overpass as the smell is horrible. San Francisco is the worste I have personally seen; it is out of control in downtown S.F.

And to think back to the 60's and 70's while on a motorcycle and the police would kick us out from under an overpass while waiting out a rainstorm.......

Right! Austin has panhandling laws and laws against camping in places the homeless do, but liberal ass Austin doesn’t enforce anything.