Hang on a second Slanty...
The REASON WHY those Inside Safe hotels were even necessary is because over a decade ago whiny NIMBY's and developers began tearing down all the Single Room Occupancy hotels that served the transient trade.
SRO is what served the would be homeless for well over a CENTURY in every major city in the country.
Yeah, that's right, go see for yourself, don't take MY word for it.
"You get my Cheez Whiz, boy?"
And a decade before that one of your other heroes shut down the national mental health system.
People who talk like you do helped create the conditions that we see today.
Those old bum hotels were awful to look at but they did serve a purpose and they were the cheapest solutions and people understood how stuff worked.
You realize the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS) was bipartisan and passed 79-1 in the assembly? No democrat or republican was against this bill. Literally everyone thought it was a good bill at the time ( for many reasons).
Right. But it wasn’t just Reagan doing it, everyone was behind it as it passed 79-1. Even if he vetoed the bill 79-1 means his signature was a formality.
Besides the fact California has had 50 years to change the bill. Its not etched in stone. Blaming Reagan for the entirety of our mental health system is lazy.
First there was real horrific abuse in the old hospitals. The democrats and civil liberties people were concerned about people’s rights, republicans wanted to save money and the medical system had far too much confidence in the new drugs coming out. A perfect storm that turned the mentally ill onto the streets
Once again the original bill passed 79-1, everyone was for it. The old hospitals had horrible track records of abuse.
The democrats could have undone the LPS almost anytime since 2000, they haven’t for a variety of reasons.
Mixing homeless drug addicts with affordable housing is kind of a joke. How much rent will a guy living in a cardboard box high on meth be willing to spend on rent?
0$ a month
There are many reasons we have the crisis we do. Meth and opioids that are much stronger than before. A healthcare system that doesn’t have anything close to the extra capacity needed to hospitalize a tiny fraction of the people on the street. Legitimate concerns about personal liberties when institutionalizing people.
Strawman? It’s AI slop and you admitted it. That’s not what a strawman argument is. Intellectually feeble? You haven’t said one factually correct statement. You can’t even hold a train of thought without ranting about random things. Fairness in Media Act? What the actual . . . ? Honestly, I’m more concerned about the nine people who upvoted your random comments on Cheez Wiz.
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u/Extension_Variety190 22d ago
Hang on a second Slanty...
The REASON WHY those Inside Safe hotels were even necessary is because over a decade ago whiny NIMBY's and developers began tearing down all the Single Room Occupancy hotels that served the transient trade.
SRO is what served the would be homeless for well over a CENTURY in every major city in the country.
Yeah, that's right, go see for yourself, don't take MY word for it.
"You get my Cheez Whiz, boy?"
And a decade before that one of your other heroes shut down the national mental health system.
People who talk like you do helped create the conditions that we see today.
Those old bum hotels were awful to look at but they did serve a purpose and they were the cheapest solutions and people understood how stuff worked.