Thanksgiving meals will be served to thousands of homeless and near-homeless individuals today on Skid Row and in Pasadena and Canoga Park amid calls for donations and volunteers for the rest of the year.
The Midnight Mission will serve Thanksgiving brunch to nearly 2,500 homeless and near-homeless men, women and children, according to Georgia Berkovich, its director of public affairs…
Berkovich said the group has been serving nearly 1 million meals a year each year since 2013.
“We haven’t seen numbers like this since the Great Depression,” she said.
And this is still the rosy, happy times of a resource glut. But already beneath the surface there is a shift. I would not bet against Donald Trump and the right wing in the next election. As much as Trump is doing to make the nation great, he is fighting a tide even Moses would have had trouble with.
This is the creep of shortage, and it is moving up the economic ladder, activating amygdalae as it goes.
Bad things are coming.
Tell others about r/K Theory, because ITZ begun for some people, and it is coming our way fast
I suspect that California’s problems are the predictable result of Too Many Laws. The homeless problem would begin to fix itself if the state took steps to make real estate cheaper and construction easier. Of course, looking at the thicket (intersectionality?) of regs it’s difficult to put my layperson finger on what needs to go.
The American middle class is sort of like a dairy cow. It gets milked, and milked and milked. Maximum production wasn’t enough- so somebody- kosher slaughtered it to get that quarterly growth. Short term profit. And it worked. But now- the cow is dead, and its burger meat is about to run out. It really hadn’t calved yet either- so no dairy for awhile. What will that do to profits down on the American farm? This is why you’re not supposed to mix diary and meat.
Anarcho-tyranny. If you’re Mexican you can live in garages or wherever you want to pile something together but if Whites do the same, jail, fines.
There are two broad, sometimes overlapping categories of homeless people:
1. The “helpless” — the mentally ill, the druggies, the drunks (these are also overlapping categories) — those who have pretty much given up on — or are incapable of — improving themselves, and are (in their present state) largely unemployable. Yes, some DO rise from their despairing situation, and good for them — and thanks to those who offer “up and out” paths to those who want to make the considerable effort. But sadly, this “helpless” category constitutes the overwhelming majority of our homeless, though reliable statistics are hard to glean. I’ll not deal with this sad category in this article.
2. Those “normal” people who were living on the edge in our high housing cost state — employable folks who slipped over the edge through a rent increase, a traffic ticket, a lost job, or whatever. Even if these people find new employment in lower paying jobs in California, the rent costs are so high (including a deposit) that they too often can’t afford Golden State housing. It’s this category that needs our “up and out” help — help that is currently verboten in our “compassionate” society.
Here’s my verboten suggestion: Government (or more likely private) agencies should actively try to match these employable street people with other states that would WELCOME workers — even workers making low incomes. These programs should assist these homeless people in their move to these states — with a “quick match” job program and affordable (Spartan, private) rental housing waiting at the other end of their journey. Of course, the public somehow thinks that’s a “heartless” policy — preferring massive welfare programs and growing homelessness to this practical alternative — so don’t expect California governments to implement this policy.
For the full article, go to:
http://riderrants.blogspot.com/2017/10/a-solution-to-employable-homeless.html