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Top 20 'Mean Cities' towards the homeless

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San Francisco's been historically GOOD to homeless. Anchorage, well, they have a program to deal with the homeless. It's called winter.
 
If I were President of the United States...

I'd start a program to forcibly consolidate every "homeless" person in the United States. I'd make a deal with a State to setup a town isolated in the middle of nowhere. Housing would be setup so each family had a place to stay. Several cafeterias would be setup and food would be shipped in. Medical and Police would be setup. It would be a true "welfare state". However, everyone would be sterilized.
 
Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
San Francisco's been historically GOOD to homeless. Anchorage, well, they have a program to deal with the homeless. It's called winter.
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Yeah, SF has been so good, that everything around Market turns into a sleepover hotel in the evening.
Bums fvcking everywhere.
 
If you're homeless I'd suggest move to Portland OR. The homeless have this thing set up called Dignity Village, where all the bumbs set up their shacks on a part of the city. The city lets them live there for free and they give them electricity and all the other crap to do so too.
 
Sarasota bans sleeping outside overnight without permission on public or private property. A judge recently upheld the ordinance passed by city commissioners in August after two similar no-camping rules were declared unconstitutional
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So what happens if you break the law and do it anyway? You go to jail? Wouldnt that be better than being homeless😕
 
Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
San Francisco's been historically GOOD to homeless.
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Civic Center used to be nothing but a shanti town. While I realize they need to sleep somewhere, I am glad that they cleaned it up.

 
Originally posted by: aphex
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10833184/from/RL.1/ - The List
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10823343/ - The Article
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10833169/from/RL.2/ - Why my city tops the list

The top 20 "mean cities" toward the homeless, as ranked by the National Coalition for the Homeless:

1. Sarasota, Fla. - Where i live 🙂
2. Lawrence, Kan.
3. Little Rock, Ark.
4. Atlanta
5. Las Vegas
6. Dallas
7. Houston
8. San Juan, Puerto Rico
9. Santa Monica, Calif.
10. Flagstaff, Ariz.
11. San Francisco
12. Chicago
13. San Antonio
14. New York City
15. Austin, Texas
16. Anchorage, Alaska
17. Phoenix
18. Los Angeles
19. St. Louis
20. Pittsburgh

Sarasota bans sleeping outside overnight without permission on public or private property. A judge recently upheld the ordinance passed by city commissioners in August after two similar no-camping rules were declared unconstitutional
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Good If I were a lawmaker Id round them up and kick them outa Houston all together..
put all the lazy good for nothings out in BFE and let them die. we dont need unproductive lazy POS around here bugging us good people.
 
Whatever happend to real men? Back in depression era lifes losers would just off themseleves.

You guys wanna read something scary? It's about to get much much worse. There are some dire prediction about to go on when peak oil starts it's decline. I first read about it in fortune this Billionarie named Rainwater was talking about 10x worse than depression and pointed the readers to this site: http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

My advice is to read up on survialism and get some land where you can grow everything you need.
 
10. Flagstaff, Ariz.
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I used to live there...there was a HUGE homless problem there seemed like. Couldn't walk downtown without at least running into 2-3.
But i guess its not how many its how badly we treat them...which makes me wonder how bad you have to treat a person before they leave for someone else...

Anyways after living in a city that is homeless friendly (Tucson, AZ) makes me want to move back...theres 3 guys living in the wash behind my apt complex, 10-20 at a wash at any given time near parents house and just all around town cant even go into a store without some low life asking for change...
 
Originally posted by: CVSiN
Good If I were a lawmaker Id round them up and kick them outa Houston all together..
put all the lazy good for nothings out in BFE and let them die. we dont need unproductive lazy POS around here bugging us good people.
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Truly you are salt of the earth.
 
Originally posted by: Zebo
Whatever happend to real men? Back in depression era lifes losers would just off themseleves.

You guys wanna read something scary? It's about to get much much worse. There are some dire prediction about to go on when peak oil starts it's decline. I first read about it in fortune this Billionarie named Rainwater was talking about 10x worse than depression and pointed the readers to this site: http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

My advice is to read up on survialism and get some land where you can grow everything you need.
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the original idea of peak oil theory originated from the Olduvai Theory..
2012 is the approximate timeframe of the Olduvai Cliff. Here is a little info from Widipedia:

The Olduvai theory was first introduced by Richard C. Duncan, Ph.D. in 1989. He presented it in his paper, "The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge", at the Summit 2000 Pardee Keynote Symposia of the Geological Society of America, on November 13, 2000. The name is a reference to the Olduvai Gorge. The Olduvai theory provides a modern argument supporting the Malthusian catastrophe.

The Olduvai theory states that the industrial civilization will have a lifetime of less than or equal to 100 years.


"The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge"
The Industrial Civilization is defined in this paper as the time from when energy production per capita rises above 30% of its peak to when it falls below 30% of its peak. This peak, according to the paper, occurred in 1979.

This decline is predicted to occur in three stages:

the Olduvai slope (1979?2000)
the Olduvai slide (2000?2012) - 'may resemble the "Great Depression" of 1929 to 1939: unemployment, breadlines, and homelessness'
the Olduvai cliff (2012?2030) - 'I know of no precedent in human history.'
The paper contains a quote that Sir Fred Hoyle made in 1964, stating that if the industrial civilization does collapse, with the fossil fuels and "high-grade" metallic ores gone, no species will ever reach the same level of technology as we now enjoy.

 
Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Woohoo! I'm on the list! #16!
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I was laughing at that. Anchorage makes the list because they arrest every single homeless person they can find in the winter. According to the list, that is "mean". In reality it's done to protect the little drunks from freezing to death. I don't think they even look at the homeless twice in the summer unless they are bugging the tourists.
 
uh, that Olduvai theory sounds like BS

did they take into account all the new technology that they didn't know about?

there is still a mega crap load of oil in the ground waiting to be burned up
 
yea its kinda odd san fran is up there. i thought it was known for its homeless problem because of overly liberal policies that attract em?
 
Cincinnati is definitely not mean twards the homeless. I once saw a homeless begger take out his large wad of cash earnings and start counting it. It made me want to rethink my career path.
 
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