You don’t even have a clue what you’re talking about. Most of the homeless are employed family people who for one reason or another don’t have the income to pay the exorbitant prices in the Bay Area. I have lived in Fremont my whole life why should I have to leave because high and mighty people like you don’t wanna have to look at us. I have worked hard my whole life and unfortunately became disabled and the fixed income I receive isn’t even sufficient to rent a room. I also have a disabled adult son. As for all the assistance you are talking about , the wait is years up to decades long because so many people need it and it’s not available. So what is your solution? Where should all the homeless people go? They have to be somewhere. And they are part of the people that the government is supposed to be protecting. Maybe it’s you who should go somewhere else, maybe a deserted island so you won’t have to deal with societies problems. All you people sitting in your nice warm living rooms judging others should maybe get off your couch and try to solve this problem instead of complaining. It’s not that simple to solve. And you didn’t even have the guts to put your name.

I’ll have you know that I was employed at the time I became homeless five years ago, and I am still employed. I don’t drink alcohol. I don’t smoke either tobacco or dope. I don’t have any other chemical “vice”, and I don’t steal (unlike many homeless who do).

I WORK for my money. I am making more now than I was five years ago, but conditions are such that I still don’t make enough money to pay rent. I would be more than thrilled to have a place to live in.

I am Sick And Tired of being deprived of the sleep I need in order to live because I can’t just park somewhere and doze.

Everyone has to be someplace,
so if you tell me I can’t be in one place,
you had better be able to name one where I CAN be.

You’re 100 percent right! Do people even question that the State, County, and City are no longer “government” but for-profit corporations now? They need to wake up and get some perspective.

Basically psychiatrists finally learned “it was cruel and unusual treatment” to lock up troubled people in psychiatric hospitals — because back then they figured, “if you talked to God, you must be praying” …and “if He answered — you must be crazy.”

In , my town the vast majority of people sleeping in cars work part to full time. The real problem is that the jobs paying 10.00 to 13.00 an hour a person can’t afford aeven the cheapest room in a house that is 1000 dollars a month plus all the utilities and all of life others expenses. It’s so easy for thoes who have so much understand what its like for thoes that don’t.

I Am a human being with a family. I pay taxes, cook clean and live by the Constitution. Humans living in rv’s which were originally HOUSE CARS OR MOTORHOMES deserve to live freely just as you. We have to pay for our vehicles, maintain them just as someone who ownes a home. And our lives are not cheap. We pay more in gas then you and use less electricity. Maybe you should step out of your house or apartment and actually talk to homeless.

Mr. Rider, Enjoy your column and your blogspot very much. California left-wing liberal Democrats don’t want the bums to leave the State. The bums give the libs a feel-good cause which helps justify their running the State. Without a “cause” libs would simply have no reason to exist.