If there were an earthquake today and suddenly thousands of residents didn't have a place to sleep, we'd mobilize and build homes for everyone within weeks. Why are we not doing this for those sleeping on our streets now?
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Replying to @ptraughber
Counterpoint: this didn’t happen after the wildfires.
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Replying to @wooster
Happened after the 1906 earthquake. Where are the fire victims who lost their homes living now? Would like to learn more about that.
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Replying to @ptraughber
Lots still homeless. There is effectively no long term plan.https://www.kqed.org/news/11785241/after-camp-fire-the-nonprofit-fights-that-keep-butte-county-residents-on-the-streets …
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Replying to @ptraughber
We have a lot less flex in the system now than in 1906. In some ways, the inhumane outcomes are by design.
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Replying to @wooster
Why less flexibility today? I assume FEMA / Red Cross would arrive in the Bay Area and set up shelters at Ocean Beach, Golden Gate Park, other locations. Maybe not?
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From what I understand, the existing homeless population kinds of break down into two groups, the people for whom the system works, who don’t stay in the system long, and the people who the system struggles to help. To this one adds a nearly open drug market in the city. Hard.
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Way more throughput in the first group. The 2nd group was essentially “handled” by mental health institutions in California. Gave us “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest”. When Cali closed its hospitals due to pushback they bussed patients to current ctr of tenderloin, LA Skid Row.
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