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> Drugs, mental illness, and sometimes just bad decision making skills. Any explanation which comes down to personal decisions has to account for the fact that
by janalsncm 3y ago
> Drugs, mental illness, and sometimes just bad decision making skills.
Any explanation which comes down to personal decisions has to account for the fact that many other developed countries have avoided the same dystopian hell of inequality as the Bay Area and likely have similar distributions of behavior. Are people in California just more prone to using drugs, being mentally ill and making bad decisions? No. In civilized places, if you mess up a little (or even a lot) the consequence should not be to sleep on the street. It’s a moral failing at a societal level.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoMost people in SF aren’t from California, let alone counting the unhoused population. America has freedom of movement, you just need a bus ticket, no hukou or residency permit needed.
- moomoo11 3y agoso you skipped over the part where I said that almost everyone who becomes homeless is off the street within two weeks? The people who continue sleeping on the street are the other group I mentioned. and yes they come to CA from other states because the laws here are loose and weather is nice every single day. Refusing to stay in a shelter because drugs aren’t allowed. Instead of helping people wean off hard drugs, SF allows open air drug markets run by gangs. The “homeless” issue will always exist this way.