We need to consider Boudin's loss in California

[Xolodno]

38. It's a lot more complicated than that.

You have:

1. People living in these homeless camps that are full time employed. They obviously do not commit crime, but living in the parks, gym membership for showers, etc. But the camps are still an eyesore and people who used to frequent these parks, don't anymore. That's not going to lend itself to a politician.

2. I know in LA they are building small temporary housing with a bed, AC, heater, facilities and have frequent service drives to help them into a place of their own. But they can't build them fast enough and often have to go through a lot of red tape. Doesn't help either when they have to compete against developers. And of course, NIMBY. Doesn't help that the city also has to compete with developers when an old office or warehouse building goes vacant. Ironically, they often revamp them and turn them into housing, just not low cost housing as they can command higher rent.

3. Don't know how much, but, a portion of the homeless have been exported to our state by red states. They buy them a one way Greyhound ticket and wash their hands of the problem.

4. Some are long term mentally ill and need to be in a long term facility...which we lack.

5. Crime (usually from item #3 and #6). A long time back, someone burglarizes your car, call the police, they take a report and that's pretty much the end of it. But it was rare when it happened. Now its way too frequent and people are seeing their premiums going up.

6. We recently let a lot of people out of jail for small petty crimes, drug use, etc. And this is the states fault when it was strict on crime (i.e. three strikes law, etc.) Problem is, no job skills, felony on record (makes it harder to employ), etc. Sure they didn't belong in prison costing us an insane amount, but we didn't have anything lined up for them either.

7. Rent is insane. And they keep building/converting for more apartments, condo's etc. But, it can't seem to keep up. You have Air BNB, VRBO, etc. taking inventory off the market. I used to look at them when I travel, but stopped. It used to be a cheaper alternative if you didn't need a pool, sauna, etc. Now hotels are actually cheaper.

It's a multi-faceted problem that can't be solved with a cure-all. This is going to take a state-county-city cooperation to fix.