In the Bay Area (areas surrounding San Francisco), poverty for a family of four is $120k. The majority of homeless in the Bay Area are employed people who simply do not make enough money to cover the high rents up there, so they live in their cars. What is sad is that there is a GIANT population of teachers who live in their cars.
To get mail, they use a PO Box. To shower, they buy a gym membership. The gym is also a safe space to hang out, too. The gyms often have wifi, so they'll do things like upload podcasts from the gym or from their place of employment.
edit to share a story: I lived up there very briefly, near a park. The city locked the bathrooms at 7:00 pm. There was a man who would sneak in at 6:59 and hide somewhere inside so that he was inside when it was locked, giving him a safe, dry place to sleep at night without fear of being attacked. No one complained because he kept the bathroom clean. When the bathrooms were unlocked in the morning, he was ready to go to work and drove to his job
Fentanyl is a big problem for the people who are truly destitute -- literally sleeping on the streets. But, like I said, the vast majority of homeless in that area are employed, have cars and live in their cars.
I have a friend of a friend whose kid was offered a piece of gum that was laced with fentanyl. He almost died from it. He was a good kid, but the person who gave him the gum was not. This happened at school.
In the Bay Area (areas surrounding San Francisco), poverty for a family of four is $120k. The majority of homeless in the Bay Area are employed people who simply do not make enough money to cover the high rents up there, so they live in their cars. What is sad is that there is a GIANT population of teachers who live in their cars.
To get mail, they use a PO Box. To shower, they buy a gym membership. The gym is also a safe space to hang out, too. The gyms often have wifi, so they'll do things like upload podcasts from the gym or from their place of employment.
edit to share a story: I lived up there very briefly, near a park. The city locked the bathrooms at 7:00 pm. There was a man who would sneak in at 6:59 and hide somewhere inside so that he was inside when it was locked, giving him a safe, dry place to sleep at night without fear of being attacked. No one complained because he kept the bathroom clean. When the bathrooms were unlocked in the morning, he was ready to go to work and drove to his job
So fentynal not an issue?
Fentanyl is a big problem for the people who are truly destitute -- literally sleeping on the streets. But, like I said, the vast majority of homeless in that area are employed, have cars and live in their cars.
100000 die a yr from fentynal...twice the entire vietnam war
I have a friend of a friend whose kid was offered a piece of gum that was laced with fentanyl. He almost died from it. He was a good kid, but the person who gave him the gum was not. This happened at school.