Forum Explores Causes of Homelessness

As it stands, many of the mentally ill take refuge at The Alano club and other AA facilities. Alcoholics know from experience, we are all responsible for each other. We open ourselves to the needs of others and that makes us better people.Many people show up at the Alano...for many reasons...they are not always acoholics...some times they are duals...but what they long for is socialization...for citizenship...to belong. To be heard and seen...to matter.
Very often the mentally ill simply need a place to sit and talk..a kind of cafe society. I often see little congregations at the parks. All day potlucks. But wouldn't it be fine if we had a Community Space..beds for those who need them and some structured activities and resources.
Mentally ill folks are sometimes homeless folks.
Not useless...not all drunk and disorderly...just in need of an ear...to listen...a hand to hold...and perhaps some one to care.
Santa Barbara could do with a Care-Port.
A safe harbour.
We all need that...and as human beings it is our job to make that possible for every one.
We all have some mental issue in our families..all of us.
It is the human condition.
When we close our minds and our hearts to others we are denying ourselves our complete potential. The world could be and should be a better place. Full of open hearts.
Abundance is available.
Hope as a verb.
Help as a verb of a community in action.
Busy hands are after all...happy hands.
I have never come away from community service with anything less than a happy,grateful and full heart.
Cliche'..."be the change and the change will come."

The cause of Homelessness is the Debt financing of the money supply by the Federal Reserve. Starting with Reagan who gutted the State of California's Mental Health System, continuing on with the outsourcing of American industry to China and supported by the FED (gave $22 Trillion to Wall Street and not one dime to the States), stand back and you see the Globalist' Agenda, which bottom line is destroy the US. So allowing private banks to print the money, finance the debt, steal taxpayer funds through debt financing and income tax leaves about $ .30 cents on the dollar for everything else that we do. so those who cry when the government steps in to help through social programs, ask yourself, why are we broke and who do we owe the money to? The answer, The Rothschilds, in London! Google "Timeline of the Rothschilds" and learn the true history of the United States and the real Demons behind the Debt! Because as long as you believe you are broke and do not understand the reasons why you will be unable to resolve the social crisis we are facing, regardless whether you are Republicrat or Democon.

Is Dale Francisco a Doctor too. An ice pick through the eye socket (lobotomy) could be prescribed as well for anyone finding themselves on the streets. Can we all now understand that Orange County vagrant Dale Francisco has issues. I don't really want to make megalomaniac comparisons but these delusions of grandeur usually start out small. Francisco has previously lauded our 1940's type mental health hospital system that clearly had problems with forced incarceration and forced treatments. And rest assured if we had these facilities today and they were humane and successful, Dale Francisco would be against them. Dale Francisco has solutions for everything so long as the solutions are his ideas and solely his ideas because no one does anything right except Dale Francisco.

So let me again diagnose Dale Francisco as a dangerous phobic who has no business being in public office. Brash and while appearing in control, Francisco is actually out of control. Afraid of everything; 60 foot buildings, bulbouts, mini-round-a-bouts, marrying homosexuals and people on the street who are only slightly different than most and just need housing. If anyone should be remanded to an institution, ECT'd and lobotomized it would be Dale Francisco.

And again does anyone know how it is that Dale Francisco supports his luxurious Santa Barbara lifestyle? Really he spent most of his adult life getting degrees from public institutions and his acknowledged work history as a technocrat for a relatively short while. Trust fund baby, sugar mama, sugar papa, Koch Brothers? Who funds this crazy as Glenn Beck vagrant. Remember megalomaniacs start out small.

emenzies, with respect - I completely agree with yours re the wish for, the need for community and caring by those (or many) with mental illness and resultant homelessness, but isn't that a purpose of Casa Esperanza? Can't the Louise Day Lowry Center also be used as a welcoming location in the day time?

...As for McDermott's jealous-sounding screech against councilmember Francisco, thanks for the laugh!

Wow, comments ought to relate to the topic!

If the word "homeless" is in the headline, some people feel free to go off on Francisco, on debt financing, on Reagan, on benches, on AA, on Casa Esperanza, on... and on.

Come on people. Add value to the discussion. If you have insights (as opposed to prejudices) add them. If you have the latter, keep them to yourselves.

By the way, the forum was quite interesting (and frustrating because there are so many causes and so many fewer options for improvement.)

I will offer one reason: Class war.
They (who?) chant it down when it is brought up, those same are currently waging it against the weakest, poorest among us. Who's next?
watch out for the polytrix