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What can we do about homelessness?

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The thing we are most lacking to comprehensively solve this problem:  Proper Vocabulary.  Here I am only speaking about the healthy homeless, which =’s, those exclusively facing financial crisis; not addicted, not criminals, not mentally ill; not freeloaders

When a person/family who is living pay check to pay check (or, as I once did, cash advance to cash advance) and they are renting an apartment, room, or house   -and their rent is increased and they can no longer pay that rent, forcing them to move    WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?   ARE SAN JOSE TAX PAYERS TO BE RESPONSIBLE TO SUBSIDIZE EVERYONE’S RENT WITH EVERY INCREASE?

Let’s imagine more housing is built to accommodate the healthy homeless.  WHAT PREVENTS AN ONGOING, UNCONTROLLABLE, POPULATION OF HEALTHY HOMELESS from making their way into San Jose where records show they will be accommodated?

 How does San Jose currently address population control? Do we know, for each of the 10 districts, how many people before valuable finite resources are taxed beyond limits. (water, land.. long list) Is there a cut-off population number per district based on infrastructure and resources?

In regard to these densely populated caged tiny home sites for the healthy homeless:  with no one stopping or protesting or slowing it down  -How many, per square mile, in each district before you have destroyed middle class and created a caged tiny class?  After 1 in each district..   2?   More?   After 1 in each district, and then a rent increase and 2000 more people are on the street…   ?

If on a park and a nature reserve, across from an elementary, and library, and day care, and a few blocks from a middle school was voted on as a buildable site  -What is considered off limits for densely populated caged tiny homes sites?

We have interviewed neighbors where tiny home sites currently exist, they have reported that people from the tiny home sites have approached them pandering for money and/or food.  If you are going to build near schools, what is to prevent people from the tiny homes sites from hitting up innocent, young children for lunch, lunch money.. from wandering the school grounds, using the restrooms on the school campus?  Showing up in the cafeteria..     Unless..

Does every elementary school now need to have security walls, iron gates, security guards  -WHO WILL BE HELD REPSONSIBLE if something consequential happens to a child?   And with San Jose having the lowest police staff per capita in the country.. (after demonizing them and making working conditions impossible)  Who can even respond to an emergency call?

What are you considering “a success story?”   -if an otherwise safe, healthy, neighborhood is destroyed, and a park is destroyed?  And the library is no longer safe for children..   and there are hundreds in a cage on a park..    and a water supply facility is compromised..  but a few people/families within the tiny home site transitions into subsidized housing  -is that a success?

I repeat, repeat, repeat..  The densely populated caged tiny home sites -if allowed to continue to grow has disastrous short and long term ramifications.  WE DESPERATELY NEED A NEW PROBLEM SOLVING PANEL, a larger panel, with many voices, from many different disciplines to comprehensively (not short sighted and quickly) address and resolve the homeless crisis.   And address not only the healthy homeless, but the addicted, mentally ill, criminal & freeloader populations.   

For this I pray, In Jesus Name,     -sandra

posted by SANDRA HARRISON KAY @ 10:28 AM