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.

they dont clear campsites on a nice warm day.
someone needs to uproot the
origins of these policies.
they go a long ways up.

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.

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.

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.

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.