Clear out of Silicon Valley homeless camp coming
Source: Associated Press
Dec 1, 4:58 PM EST
Clear out of Silicon Valley homeless camp coming
By MARTHA MENDOZA
Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Shouting and banging on doors, city officials in Silicon Valley stapled and taped notices on hand built structures, tents and tree trunks warning more than 200 residents of what is likely the nation's largest homeless encampment that the bulldozers are coming.
People living in the camp, known as The Jungle, must be out by Thursday or face arrest for trespassing.
On Monday morning, more than 20 police offices and construction workers walked through the mile square encampment, more muddy and trash strewn than ever after an unusual fall rainstorm.
"You guys have until Thursday to pull everything out," shouted Carlos Tovar, a contractor hired by the city for debris removal and clean up.
Shouting and banging on doors, the team walked the windy paths between compounds surrounded by woven reeds to tarp strewn structures tied to trees. Bewildered residents, many awakened by the shouts, were handed yellow warning posters: "!!!ATTENTION!!!" read the notices. "The City of San Jose will be conducting a cleanup of illegal encampments in this area...."
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upaloopa
(11,417 posts)on their feet. There is funding. There are federal HUD grants. I work on them daily. They are for homeless outreach and for homeless shelter. Sure there isn't enough money but it is there. There are community based organizations in place to do the work. Many of these people can be helped to become self sufficient or if too mentally I'll can be placed in permanent housing with rent subsidies Medicare, Medicaid, SSI and SDI. It takes a willingness to do this.
reddread
(6,896 posts)they dont clear campsites on a nice warm day.
someone needs to uproot the
origins of these policies.
they go a long ways up.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)the city administration of San Jose.
Nevertheless, one could rightly ask why CA Governor Jerry Brown is staying silent on this planned attack on some of his constituents. That's right, the people living in the camp are Brown's constituents, in case we've forgotten.
reddread
(6,896 posts)this is about 140 miles away and they are well aware of the legal precedents
here in Fresno. Municipalities may want to appear solely responsible and lay it at
the taxpayers feet when the lawyers start nibbling in defense of the homeless.
they may act all surprised when it happens, but its all part of the calculation and
the policies which are widespread. Think of how the Occupy encampments were dealt with.
there are many similarities, minus the absolute indifference and/or hostility homeless people engender.
and the homes most Occupy campers had to return to.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)When The Jungle is cleared later this week, city officials plan to send in trash trucks and bulldozers to haul out tons of hazardous and human waste. They'll use heavy machinery to fill excavated sections where people have been living underground. And they'll try to restore the creek beds.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)Its been going downhill forever but now its getting so ugly that only 1%ers can't see from thier castles .
The very idea that in the 21st century and in a town of so much wealth, they would choose such a barbaric method to resolve ''their homeless problem'' in such a manner.
- I thought all these tech people thought they were so fucking smart?
Vacant California California has over 1 million vacant housing units increasing 54 percent in one decade while actual housing units only increased by 11 percent.