How can a place with 58,000 homeless people continue to function?
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Eric_Hyom
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It has been said that anyone pays a mortgage or rents, is only ever about three months away from being homeless. 58,000 seems a huge number for any city, there must be some significant reasons why this is happening to so many ordinary folk.
The favoured response seems to be to hire security guards, to protect people with money. Very sad.
The favoured response seems to be to hire security guards, to protect people with money. Very sad.
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stinkcat_14
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No doubt, Catholics are not doing their jobs.
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MonteRCMS
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Is Governor Brown Catholic?
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StephieNorthCo
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Believe it or not, at one point he was considering becoming a priest. From my view, CINO.
Suudy
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So did Stalin.
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StephieNorthCo
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It think it would be snarky to say there’s little difference, so I won’t.
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Peebo
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Hitler was a Catholic and dreamed of becoming a priest as a young boy also…
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Inisfallen
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Sick burn, bro.
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Inisfallen
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Absolutely.
In my city, New York, according to the Coalition for the Homeless, “In December 2017, there were 63,495 homeless people, including 15,586 homeless families with 23,655 homeless children, sleeping each night in the New York City municipal shelter system.”
And that’s the number of people in the shelter system. Another 4,000 or so sleep on the streets, according to estimates from what I think are reputable sources. That number varies with the weather (an issue that LA doesn’t have) and that’s last year – my eyeball observation is that the number is bigger this year.
Those are significant numbers, even in a city of 8 million people.
This is a very, very big problem.
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lmachine
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It’s pretty simple: 40 years of wage stagnation coupled with increased cost of living gets us to where we are today.
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