This video from Anaheim (California) is reminiscent of travelling around Dehli (from 39' in - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF7hWzqdPDk). The level/amount of poverty in this video is shocking.
While I don't think it's an adequate idea, as it undersells the value of clannism, it's pretty easy to think of other interesting purposes for this comparison other than moral shaming. Perhaps this might've been a starting point for discussing the harms to the moral thinking which doesn't erect and police boundaries to "we".
A lot of moral discussion, in real life, on Reddit, or on HN, more or less of the same quality (as opposed to other discussions on HN) go nowhere. There is utility to discussing an objective moral calculus that multitudes can observe and negotiate.
Santa Monica seems to have successfully exported their problem to neighboring cities since then. In general, things seem to be substantially worse now.
Here in NL we have some homeless, but also lots of government systems in place to offer housing and incentives to possibly work or get schooling.
In the end this is actually cheaper, as to prevent crime and what not. Not sure how this would work in the US.
A slightly larger number get healthcare from Medicaid.
The assistance is not a large amount per month, but it is there.
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/distribution-of...
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-spendi...
Much of the spending is on the elderly and disabled (which both group tend to have above average medical needs).
1. https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...
1. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-2...
Maybe not even/just poor, but excluded from local economy/politics due to race, gender, ethnicity, not being a member of the old boys' club, etc.
> "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free", etc.
The Republican controlled cities are giving huddled masses to the people who accept that immigration logic.
Not at all. The US has a big problem with homelessness, and for a long time we've been sticking our head in the sand.
Cities like SF have been trying to do something about it for a while, but I don't believe any city can solve the problem. This issue is greater than one city or one state. It's a national problem that requires national solutions.
It worked for SLC because SLC is isolated and expensive to travel to. In the tightly packed, interconnected megalopolises of the Bay Area, LA, and the Northeast, good luck getting anything to work long-term at just the municipal level.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
Unless of course the so called progressive population does not actually care that the middle of downtown Berkeley looks like a third world country.
https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/City_Council/2015/05_M...
2017 homeless number is about 1000:
http://www.dailycal.org/2017/05/29/berkeleys-homeless-popula...
If every one of them is provided a $3k/mo apartment, it would increase the budget by 36 million.
Berkeley population is estimated at 121k
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/berkeley-ca-popul...
20% of berkeley population lives below powerty level. So lets say it is 100k that are left.
36M/100k is what? $360 per person? There, I just solved Berkeley homeless problem at a price of less than 5 bottles of Napa Valley Cab per person who screamed at the sky in the city of Berkeley the day Trump became President Elect.