politics Wrote a long and “important” article about California’s Roomkey project (now Homekey) and how it changed the face of the California homelessness crisis and may resolve it nationwide.
Fifty percent of the homeless in the country are isolated from California. This seems to be a crisis of our own cause; especially since homelessness is declining in all states except California and New York.
American Facts Network, A non-partisan organization tracking the matter, the number of homeless people in California is 161,548. New York ranked second with 91,271. Every other state dropped from there, not even reaching 30,000. Statistics show that from 2007 to 2020, only California, New York and Massachusetts (17,975 people) are the only states with an increase in homelessness. The homelessness rate in the other 47 states has declined.
So the solution to this so-called unique problem in California should also be isolated from the state and should not go beyond its borders. Other states seem to be doing a good job of managing the homeless. California cannot say that.
In too many words, POLITICO is doing what it does best: polishing the feces of Governor Gavin Newsom.
The first lie made by the publication is that nearly 30% of chronically homeless people are not at the root of the homelessness problem. The author shows the other 70% or so homeless people who are going through difficult times.
When people think of homelessness, they usually think of people who are obviously and chronically homeless -Many of them suffer from mental illness, behavioral disorders and substance abuse problems, which prevents them from keeping their jobs. But chronic cases actually only make up a small part of the population. In California, only 30% of people who experienced homelessness in January 2020 have been homeless for at least 12 months in the past three years. Count according to HUD, Which means that about 70% of people are newly homeless people-usually low-income people who have gone through difficult times and found themselves homeless for the first time in their lives.
Margot Kuscher, head of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative in San Francisco, said: “You don’t see many, many people walking out of tents to work.” Kuscher is a researcher on the health effects of homelessness. The doctor affected, when Newson’s staff put forward the hotel renovation plan, he was one of the experts in the room.
This is a published novel and can be seen by anyone living in major urban centers such as San Francisco or Los Angeles. Reporter Erica J. Sandberg pays close attention to homelessness and writes about the crisis in San Francisco due to this.She has written about community projects such as urban alchemy and Actively focus on treatment, rehabilitation and prevention programs) Committed to alleviating homelessness and rebuilding human life; so she can also recognize when it happens no Work.
I asked her if she had read the POLITICO article, and she did.
“That article was crazy. As if it was written by an alien, it was crazy,” she said.
When asked about her assessment of the Project Roomkey model, she had a lot to say-none of them were positive.
“They have renamed it’Permanent Support Housing’.” The problem is: remove the word “support”. There is no “support” in this equation,” she said.
“You put people with serious problems in houses without any structure or support. This is the secret of disaster.”
POLITICO showed glossy photos of two people who were placed in the new “Homekey” project. They fit the “Citizen’s Luck”, the profile, and the beauty of the new facility.
This article interviewed the “leaders” of the homeless front in California. Frankly speaking, these leaders have been monitoring the growing crisis while paying for their own money.
The non-profit organization PATH (Helping the Homeless) is one such organization.Three women just be accused Director of the National Security Agency Rob Bonta on allegations of fraud and corruption involving the organization. How many of these organizations are not operating in a fair manner, and no one is calling on them?
These leaders quickly blamed everything from housing shortages to the NIMBY (not in my backyard) mentality of the wealthy in Uber.
Over the years, California has been investing more and more money into the homeless, only to see the homeless population continue to surge. Increase by 40% Only in the past five years. The difference between Homekey is that it builds some of the most Onerous and expensive obstacles Develop affordable housing.
The Homekey project-and other similar projects-bypass these barriers by focusing on existing buildings carefully selected by the community itself.
One of Newsom’s fiercest critics, Congressman Kevin Kiley, was never ashamed to point out the failure of simply increasing the initial $12 billion price tag to address the homelessness problem, rather than addressing the root cause. Problem: Mental illness and drug abuse.
“Everything he did for the homeless has completely failed. He said that Newsom’s operating model seems to be to invest money in it.
“There is no evidence that this Project Roomkey model is effective. The general national operating budget is increasing year by year, but the results are getting less and less. We see that the number of homeless people is not decreasing, but increasing.”
One week before Newsom’s election in September, I wrote an article about money Already wasted In the pilot project Roomkey, although hard-working citizens are not troubled by material or mental problems, they still cannot find housing in California. However, Newsom has no problem to change the CEQA regulations of the Roomkey project, but will not build more affordable single-family homes.
California Globe The truth about waste in the pilot project was also reported:
The Roomkey project is notorious because most of the hotel rooms are vacant.At the highest point, the country Only takes up about half of the hotel room It has been rented out, and statistics in May show that only about 7,000 of the 17,000 hotel rooms are fullAlthough counties such as Sacramento and San Francisco are well above the average for full houses, San Diego and Orange barely reach a quarter. In Los Angeles, the fill percentage never exceeds 30%.
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“This is a $100 million project that ended up housing less than 5,000 people,” Edgar Powe, a former county homeless liaison officer, explained to the Globe. “Not only are they mismanaged, but they have forgotten how many homeless people actually volunteer for this kind of thing.”
“Experienced homeless people have a different attitude towards relocation because they have been burnt down by the relocation before, for example, anytime they are forced to leave the area due to a major upcoming event. Others prefer the street and did not help them. Others have a line for more stable housing and don’t want to jeopardize it. Others don’t want the 7pm curfew and think it is insulting. And there are too many examples of this.”
POLITICO did not bother to visit San Francisco, where the Project Roomkey facility has only been open for a few months, and the facility has been overcrowded by long-term homeless people.
#SF It is the purchase of Panoramic, this 3-year-old apartment building will be transformed into a homeless hotel.Not only have drug dealers covered this intersection, but they are also blocking the outside @London Varieties A meth decanter center is being placed.
Does this make things worse or better? pic.twitter.com/ztZnt3GXGe
-CleanUpSOMAWest (@CleanUpWestSoma) September 10, 2021
Sandberg tells the truth about power:
“They caused complete chaos within the hotel and the community.
“What’s happening outside is happening inside. People treat it as if it’s outside. Playing around in the room. No. It’s not a solution, and it’s not ethical.”
Assembled Keely also pointed out:
“The government’s approach has gone backwards.
“When you give them a room without resources, it is difficult for them to invest in measures to rebuild their lives. There should be some form of transitional housing that provides treatment or mental health counseling.
“Facilities should be far away from where people live. Away from residential centers in towns.”
Essentially, this is not about ending homelessness, because it actually involves treating the homeless as human beings and providing them with the help they need to make them sober, conscious, and get the tools to become a community Part of and control society.solution Drupinski The assumption is in the right direction, but the leader of the so-called homeless industry thinks he is Not suitable Become a member of the Los Angeles Homelessness Committee. As long as these people can get a salary, they will remain homeless until the end of time.
Sandberg pointed to supporting an obviously flawed project as the real motivation for solving the problem of homelessness:
“When they [the elites] See the people on the street. If they don’t see them on the street anymore—poof! The problem is solved. It allows politicians to say, See, i’m doing something!
“This is a huge waste of money and a huge waste of human empathy.
“It makes people very angry,” Sandberg said.
The Roomkey project created the illusion that as long as the homeless are packed into some form of housing, instead of solving the problem that caused people to become homeless in the first place, the problem will be solved. The total lack of sympathy behind such social engineering projects is not an illusion. Just as the state is madly pushing people to get vaccinated, it is also pushing the homeless to leave the streets: one size fits all, one solution will solve all problems. If you cannot accept the solution imposed by the state, then you are just a person who does not want to solve the problem.
“We are not an object you just set up somewhere. There is no such thing as a’handling a person’-saying that you are moving a person, like an animal in a cage, is really offensive,” Sandberg said.
“No one reported this in the hotel. But if you want to focus on the anomaly, then do it.”
