Homeless Death Report Is Bleak and Scientific

I read this report; it’s absolutely heart wrenching to read the details and the amount of suffering that these people must go through on a daily basis. But it’s also Santa Barbara’s openness and caring which is making the problem worse, and why we’ve become such a magnetic for homeless from around the state. The City of Berkeley was faced with the same problem two years ago. Berkeley is also an expensive city to live, hillside homes with water views, and a top notch University of California. They also had many services to help people, so much so that 40% of Alameda’s county homeless population resided in Berkley even though it made up 6 % of the county population. See any similarities.
Berkeley residents and merchants were frustrated, just like Santa Barbarians, about aggressive panhandling, homeless encampments, and the public urination in their downtown. We have the same problems, visit the base at Sterns Wharf or Dwight Murphy bleachers during the day. They passed the “Public Commons for Everyone Initiative”, which aims to clear the streets aggressive and disruptive behavior. The law penalizes individuals for a wide range of behavior, including lying on or blocking sidewalks, smoking near doorways, littering and drinking, urinating, defecating and shouting in public. But at the same time they cleaned up there streets they also increased the services to help those people get treatment, those that didn’t want treatment and wanted to keep doing drugs an alcohol were essentially driven out of town. There’s been an explosion in our homeless population over the past couple of years and until we deal it, reports like will be repeated for many years to come.

The Homeless Report is Soylent Green!

But the CMan makes some good points.
Concur. Mostly.