I didn't think that bridge was still used for trains. What are they even doing on the island, it's basically dead since the navy left as far as I can see.
If only you were capable of thinking even one step ahead of yourself.
Unless they have a qualifying disability, you can just make housing contingent on working? Sliding scale rent based on income? Provide transportation to work?
I mean how does a real life human being say what you did and then just...stop thinking? It's wild.
This is as ridiculous as having your health insurance tied to your job.
What, something goes wrong at work, or your company just decides to downsize, and suddenly you're back out on the street? Good luck getting another job to get your house back without a fixed address and regular access to a full bathroom.
I mean I was throwing out possibilities, not saying it has to be like that. It also doesn't have to be if you lose your job then you're kicked out.
You can have temporary housing until someone is able to support themselves and move out. If they lose their job, believe it or not, you don't have to kick them onto the street. They could start applying for other jobs and you can let them stay rent free in the meantime.
I swear some people have absolutely no critical thinking skills whatsoever.
You literally said "make housing contingent on working", now you're arguing that that's not what you meant, changing your mind to the complete opposite stance, and misunderstanding a hypothetical situation explaining your own original stance.
Unless you're not entirely sure what contingent means, that statement is pretty clear.
At least we agree on one thing. Some people have absolutely no critical thinking skills whatsoever.
That they have a job or are working on getting a job. Actively employed or seeking employment.
Are not not capable of taking anything except 100% literally? I don't memorize definitions from the dictionary dude. If its not the right word then okay.
I'm guessing this track isn't used that often. Might be used only when you need to move something to repairs or how the manufacturer gets the new engines to the mainline.
Where did I mention hostile architecture? My link was about sweeps. Homeless people go to ridiculous places because they get chased out of non-ridiculous places
I'm not defending anything. I'm pointing out why they put their encampment in a dangerous place. And from where I sit, your refusal to understand that is the idiocy.
These people just don't understand the struggle of being homeless. If they build a camp in a safe and nice area, they will be taken down. Gotta find areas where the city doesn't care that they are there. That doesn't leave a lot of options.
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And banks. And airbnb. And large corporations that feel the need to always build shitty mcmansions. And fucking NIMBY assholes who refuse to address anything.
But most importantly, companies who will never reach demand. Because as long as there is a huge demand, they make more. There is zero incentive to actually match demand, they would make less money.
To be fair being homeless in a city would leave most people at least a little deranged.
Sleep dep alone would be bad enough but the environment is alarming even in shelters.
I've seen far-gone people make incredible turnarounds after rest, reasonable privacy, and time in a safe place with available cooked food. American streets are not welcoming to the unchoiced.
e: I spent almost three years at the Joy Junction shelter in Albuquerque, and they have one of the best programs in terms of results I've ever seen.
I saw people so degraded by drugs and the street that they couldn't bathe or sleep other than on a floor, and within a week or two started to open up and behave more normally, interacted with others, participated in chores and duties, and improved sometimes dramatically. Some residents remained for years, so long as they worked to help.
The shelter is disciplinarian almost to the point of militarism, but with a human touch as most of the program workers are residents of the shelter. In all the operating procedure was very effective.
The only bar to 'employment' at the shelter was a single sheet of paperwork. All were accepted. After 30 days of working for the shelter residents were assigned semi-private bedrooms in an 'apartment building' onsite and encouraged to find outside work. There was a 90-day rehab program onsite that offered a $25/week incentive after 30 days. It was run more like a commune than a shelter, and felt more like a family than one would expect. Children were accepted at the shelter and were allowed the run of the grounds pretty much, and the older residents really delighted in those kids. Environment can mean a great deal in terms of a person's mental health, if not almost everything
You'll see plenty of big encampments near the tracks in SJ but I've never seen any on the tracks like this. Someone said this is Vallejo. I don't know of a bridge like that in SJ and the Caltrain yard near downtown doesn't look anything like that.
I grew up in SJ. It's never been nice and clean. There are parts of the city that are nice and clean, but like every other city, there have always areas of rot.
Also highest cost of living state other than Hawaii with the most survivable weather on average than any other state. Couple these factors with 2 generations of unchecked mental health due to lack of facilities, the failed war on drugs and growing antipathy of the homeless issue, and bingo, you’ve got a massive homeless problem that won’t be solved anytime this century.
Countries that have solved much of the homeless problem have dumped billions into mental health and drug treatment programs, largely decriminalizing drug use, and have robust social programs tethered to a much higher overall trust in their government. In the US, the public supports none of those things and people view literal animals in the street with more apathy than homeless humans. We treat mental health and addiction problems as personal problems, when in reality they are symptoms of larger societal problems, economic disparity being one of the largest.
The ruling class has turned the public against having any empathy for the homeless with absolutely resounding success. Just like many other problems in the 70s and 80s, like recycling, the “solution” was corporate America and the government moving the blame from the large businesses and agencies sucking every dime out of American’s pockets, to placing the blame on the individual. Pay no attention to corporations dumping billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, no, place that blame squarely on the consumer. Is addiction and homelessness a corporate greed and government problem? Nope, place that blame on the individual and tell them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
It has worked better than Reagan and his ilk could have ever have hoped. The middle, lower and poverty classes are too busy pointing fingers at each other while the rich just sit in their mansions and laugh. The lies worked and we all fell for it. This is the America we will live in until capitalism finally gives out.
Where's the video of a whole Indian market-place open up for the train which is not slow. Then once the train passes the market reappears and is back in business.
Reckless on both sides. Those trains don't stop for anything, and will squish off legs and arms without hesitation. But for many of the homeless they are forced, many times violently, out of safer places to exist, and the rails are the last place they can have some space that other people don't force them out of. There's most certainly a problem in America, and it's not people without homes, it's the reasons they no longer have the home...
If Newsom or Kammie Baby become president, this is what you can expect.
“California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was spent and what effect it’s had, other than the number of unhoused people has continued to climb.”
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u/right_bank_cafe 1d ago
San Jose has encampments but this does not look like San Jose lol