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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Essentially what hasn’t been handled in either city is the emergent encampment that their policies of dumping people started! Responsibility for this runs waaaay deeper than just not building them houses. The mental health institutions never prepped ppl for this; how could they.
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You end up with a lump of insitituitionally resistant people simply too large for either city to digest, and it continues to this day
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