I also just submitted this LTE: In the State of Homelessness editorial, fourteen MediaNews papers asked its editors, “Do people in your area claim that most of the homeless people are from somewhere else, and if your city would just stop all the ‘great benefits,’ they’d go back to wherever they came from?” These ‘false narratives’ led to…
I also just submitted this LTE: In the State of Homelessness editorial, fourteen MediaNews papers asked its editors, “Do people in your area claim that most of the homeless people are from somewhere else, and if your city would just stop all the ‘great benefits,’ they’d go back to wherever they came from?” These ‘false narratives’ led to their project. But they didn’t answer the question. Were our homeless born in Santa Cruz, do they have family here, were they residents before they became homeless? That would be easy enough to verify by asking for their place of birth and last address. In 2017 CA had 22% of the nation’s homeless with 12% of the population. That indicates at least 10% of the country’s homeless have come here from elsewhere. In addition to the second highest cost of housing, we’re each taking responsibility for twice our share of the country’s homeless. And there’s no end in sight.
I also just submitted this LTE: In the State of Homelessness editorial, fourteen MediaNews papers asked its editors, “Do people in your area claim that most of the homeless people are from somewhere else, and if your city would just stop all the ‘great benefits,’ they’d go back to wherever they came from?” These ‘false narratives’ led to their project. But they didn’t answer the question. Were our homeless born in Santa Cruz, do they have family here, were they residents before they became homeless? That would be easy enough to verify by asking for their place of birth and last address. In 2017 CA had 22% of the nation’s homeless with 12% of the population. That indicates at least 10% of the country’s homeless have come here from elsewhere. In addition to the second highest cost of housing, we’re each taking responsibility for twice our share of the country’s homeless. And there’s no end in sight.