12-10-2021, 09:52 PM
(12-10-2021, 04:44 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Skid Row is a sad, sad area. One of my favorite YT channels, Soft White Underbelly, interviews folks from Skid Row quite often. The interviews can be tough watches sometimes.
I've worked that area, it's borderline third world conditions. I spent my formative years in Southern California. I've been to Mexico numerous times. Skid Row is as bad as any Mexican slum I have personally seen, with the exception of raw sewage flowing through the gutters. It makes you wonder too, how much does the far left really care about this issue that these kind of conditions are so rampant in areas totally dominated by their policies. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berkeley/Oakland, Portland and Seattle, just to confine myself to the west coast. Now there is something to be said for homeless people flocking to areas with "better", or more lenient, programs, thus exacerbating the issues in those areas. But that doesn't fully explain it, not even close. Also, what about the right of non homeless citizens to live in an area devoid of fecal matter on the street and sidewalks, used needles on the ground, aggressive panhandling (Los Angeles is approaching San Francisco levels of homeless aggression) and other crime inherent to this issue?
It's a shitty situation that no one, apparently, wants to aggressively tackle.
