CA is really stupid. It’s dumping money into shelters that are abysmal & not a stepping stone to housing for people who want it. Many of those homeless don’t WANT to be housed, yet, that’s where they sink $$. Cause those are the homeless people complain about. But they take away programs that can help people that are trying desperately to be housed. My city only had a “safe parking” program for a few winter months. Now the only 1 in the county is exclusive to 1 town’s pop. Criminalized poverty 😡
@DEDGirl@ai6yr We also need to stop treating hardcore meth and fentanyl addicts like folks just down on their luck needing housing. They need well funded, well staffed, state if the art, real treatment centers. Involuntary if necessary. Those problems have become everyone’s problems.
@Stoneycase@ai6yr Many don’t want housing, treatment, nor help. And won’t stay in a facility. I know. My dad is one of them. The VA & I got him into a facility. He attempted suicide regularly. With anything he could find. Then he would lie about being a drug user to the psych staff & they’d ask me why I was keeping him locked up! 🤦♀️ I couldn’t take it any more & he ended up back on the street. It’s a brutally complex situation, but the massive funds are being sunk.
@DEDGirl@ai6yr I’m sorry to hear that. To be clear I don’t know the exact answer. Just watching the billions wasted year after year in California as the problem grows. In eureka they’re being put into housing originally built for homeless veterans and making the situation untenable for two groups of people instead of just one. Lots of money given to just exist on the streets. (1/2)
California feels like the incubation zone for people’s well meaning, unproven and ill fated plans that cost billions with little to no results. This new meth and fentanyl are entirely new animals. I’m in favor of radical treatment options. Ketamine, mushrooms, anything but money and a tent or housing facilities without addiction staffing. (2/2)
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