What, or Who, is the Middle Class?

[Borachio]

I don't think being homeless is a particularly easy thing to experience. For a very small number it could be a life choice. But for the vast majority it's due to a whole bundle of problems of a personal, mental, familial, and societal nature, including things like poor health, family breakup, loss of job, alcoholism, drug addiction and plain insanity.

 

[Hygro]

For some reason the homeless of California appear to be specially mobile.

Most cities in California have laws against being homeless. When you are arrested, you are given a choice: a one way ticket to Berkeley/San Francisco or a fine and/or a little jail time.

 

[Borachio]

What's wrong, or right, with Berkeley/San Francisco that it tolerates the homeless? And where does it send its own homeless?

Or do you mean that the California homeless end up in perpetual motion between Berkeley and San Francisco?

 

[Farm Boy]

Most cities in California have laws against being homeless. When you are arrested, you are given a choice: a one way ticket to Berkeley/San Francisco or a fine and/or a little jail time.

Yuck.

 

[Hygro]

What's wrong, or right, with Berkeley/San Francisco that it tolerates the homeless? And where does it send its own homeless?

Or do you mean that the California homeless end up in perpetual motion between Berkeley and San Francisco?

Not all California cities, sorry. Berkeley and SF, Oakland, all "tolerate" the homeless because we care about human dignity. San Francisco is especially first rate in providing services.

Yuck.

Yep. Some of it is driven by economic differences too, though. It's just that while it's cool that we can afford to absorb folks from smaller towns from the valley, though don't have to be so hostile to their own residents.

 

[sophie]

Most cities in California have laws against being homeless. When you are arrested, you are given a choice: a one way ticket to Berkeley/San Francisco or a fine and/or a little jail time.

Santa Cruz is another common destination, although their services have been cut back the last few years.