This page supports a progressive vision to address homelessness by shifting time from repeated reporting to real solutions for both the unhoused and housed.
Situation
It was said that California has 24% [0515] of the nation’s unhoused but only 12% of its population while having less low income housing per capita [0516], and homelessness appears to be rising in Davis [0516].
Sightings of Specific Issues
- Hostile Behavior: Jumping in front of car and throwing popcorn onto windshield [0516] .
- Drug Safety: Public drug use [0516] and improper disposal of syringes [240905].
- Shelter Hygiene: Too stuffy, rather sleep in open air [1214]
- Property Misappropriation: Shopping carts were taken [0516].
- Disruption of Peace: Screaming obscenities [0515].
- Vibe: People sleeping near the free food refrigerator [0515][T/F?] Homelessness being a hurtful sight [0516]
- Attention: The issue compels people to discuss and find solution. Nextdoor Threads: 2025: [0512] [0515] 2024: [0531] [0831] [0905].
Root Cause Possibilities
- Missing Land Equity Ethics: The Constitution lacks the ethical principle of land ownership limits, which could have protected individual shares and prevented rent issues from enclosure [0518].
- High Rent and Construction Costs: low income housing costs three times as much as other major states due to union-driven rules adding up to $75K per unit [0516]. The high cost affects the housed also [0517][CBS], leading to a lack of affordable housing [0516]
- Over-prescription of Opioids flooded the country with prescription drugs, leading to many citizens losing their homes and becoming homeless. [0516] [0516] It is said that California has more homelessness, but not more addicts or mental illness compared to other states [0516].
- Supreme Court case O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975) affirmed that non-dangerous mentally ill individuals can't be involuntarily confined [0516] This ruling does not prevent a city from expelling the unhoused from the street [0518], and it seems that Davis get those expelled from bigger cities [0516].
- Lack of funding to resolve issues. [0517]
Existing Actions
- Matching Solutions: Help communicate the variation in homelessness cases to account for each case type that has not been solved. [0516] [0516] [0518]
- Existing homeless resources [Wiki] It is said that the shelters and family support services are full beyond capacity [0516].
- Volunteer Cleanup [240831]
- Anti-Theft Wheel Lock: Installed by the store to prevent shopping carts from being taken. [0518]
Suggestions with Observed Ineffectiveness
- Lot of Tiny Homes: Remains vacant and degrades by the weather [0516]
- Boarding Houses: Too many need their own bathroom and kitchen [0516]
- "Just give them housing" does not account for cases where the recipient trashes the housing [0516]
Suggestions that are not Legal
- Compulsory Humane Treatment for homeless people who are also mentally ill [0516] [0516] This seems to be illegal per O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975). (Is this ethical? If so, it is the law that should change.)
Suggestions
- Give homes to the unhoused: Start by or at least give them homes [0516]
- Delivering Supplies to the address as a second step to housing first [0518]
- Give counseling: for those with problems of addiction, abuse, or with unemployable skill [0516]
- Give safe injection sites: [0516]
- Create more Jobs [0517]
- Expel able bodies who choose to loiter instead of work: To motivate them to find work [0517].
- Tax the Rich [0517]
- Deport to another Country: such as the Philippines [0516]
- Need Accountability on how taxes are spent [0516]
- Vote for Progressive Candidates [0517]
