SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
A pilot program that employs formerly unhoused individuals to clean up the community in Sacramento has been going strong for almost a year now. And it got approved for another year.
As a landlord I was involved for a short time in a program to assist homeless veterans. The first guy they helped was a Vietnam vet who had lived in a tent in various places around the area for more than thirty years. He chose that life style. He didn't do drugs. He was recruited into the program by some possibly well meaning people, but was then taken advantage of. He stayed through the winter, but when spring hit he moved back into his tent camping close to the river. When he moved out the person controling his money ripped him off, withheld payment to me, claimed to the program manager that he was still in my apartment but that I was negligent in maintaining the place so he couldn't live there. She claimed he was staying with her until I completed repairs. His son had previously rented from me. When he got wind of it he informed the person in charge that dad had moved out and quit the program. The lady controling his money got away with the fraud by getting a mental health diagnosis. Some people are homeless and need help. Many are homeless by choice. Most of the programs are boondoggles that feed cheats. We don't have a Constitutional requirement to help anyone. Give that job back to the churches. If the do-gooders want to do it, they can organise their antitheist asses into a church of their own making and do it with their own money. Government needs to be limited to national defense, infrastructure and law enforcement. I would take things like national parks and sell them to nonprofits. Some will make money. Gettysburg for example should make bank. Other less known ones can be reduced to a plaque and a pull out.
"unhoused"? so pretentious. like calling a restaurant an "eatery"
ReplyDeleteAnd one woman quoted was "unsheltered."
DeleteIt's a term designed to shift the onus to others. IE, we didn't house them or some such subtle psych guilt technique.
DeleteI would bet 90% of the budget goes to city employees who run the program.
ReplyDeletethey should be unjobbed.
DeleteThe census doesn’t refer to people as homeless. They are people experiencing homelessness.
ReplyDeleteBuddha
As a landlord I was involved for a short time in a program to assist homeless veterans. The first guy they helped was a Vietnam vet who had lived in a tent in various places around the area for more than thirty years.
ReplyDeleteHe chose that life style. He didn't do drugs. He was recruited into the program by some possibly well meaning people, but was then taken advantage of. He stayed through the winter, but when spring hit he moved back into his tent camping close to the river.
When he moved out the person controling his money ripped him off, withheld payment to me, claimed to the program manager that he was still in my apartment but that I was negligent in maintaining the place so he couldn't live there.
She claimed he was staying with her until I completed repairs.
His son had previously rented from me. When he got wind of it he informed the person in charge that dad had moved out and quit the program.
The lady controling his money got away with the fraud by getting a mental health diagnosis.
Some people are homeless and need help. Many are homeless by choice. Most of the programs are boondoggles that feed cheats.
We don't have a Constitutional requirement to help anyone. Give that job back to the churches. If the do-gooders want to do it, they can organise their antitheist asses into a church of their own making and do it with their own money.
Government needs to be limited to national defense, infrastructure and law enforcement. I would take things like national parks and sell them to nonprofits. Some will make money. Gettysburg for example should make bank. Other less known ones can be reduced to a plaque and a pull out.