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Maybe our RV dwellers should do like in San Diego and sue.
The World is Upside Down in Orange County!
Anaheim City Council has voted to evict homeless people living in RVs.
Many homeless people are working in Orange County and many of those working homeless are living in cars or RV’s. And Anaheim, in its twisted logic, will not seek to help the homeless people on the streets, but will simply make them move to some other city to die.
The new rule – you cannot park an RV on the streets of Anaheim or a truck or any vehicle over 22 feet long or 7’ high. Not only does this include RV’s, work trucks, the newest tall vans, but you can also narc out your neighbor with the jacked-up pickup truck! This, along with relaxed rules on permit parking, will allow anyone almost anywhere to get permit parking for their neighborhood.
An older woman that worked at Disneyland for poverty wages recently died in her car. A Family of 4 was refused housing by Garden Grove city council members, and died in their van recently.
In a Garden Grove Community meeting Supervisor Andrew Do notoriously warned that “If you give the homeless people housing they will turn it into a crack house or flop house.” Better to let them die in their car with their children!
I stopped to talk to a few people in their RVs and met an elderly gentleman with no teeth and a leg in a cast from an infection and operation. He was lacking in some vocal skills and I can only guess that he was mentally handicapped. He’s living in a RV and will be targeted by the Anaheim city council for “removal.” Removal from the earth, perhaps?
As you forcibly move the people including the unstable, the poor, and the needy around town this adds to the stress levels. Here is this mentally challenged elderly man with no teeth forced to move his last place on earth, his last bit of security to God knows where.
As this process goes the next city too will ignore the needs of the homeless and make him move again until he dies. With the end resulting in death, the cities and county win because that is one less homeless person they have to worry about.
Somehow, many city councils, sitting beneath their “In God We Trust” plaques, believe they will prevail in a debate with the Supreme Being on this matter. “Hey at least they didn’t die in OUR city!” Yeah, that’s because you passed laws that made them move to another city to die! You can just see the omnipotent being taking that in and saying “Hey, you fooled me so you get a pass… NOT.” And then at His nod, St. Peter will pull the big heavenly flusher to the nether world.
I spoke with another couple that worked at Disneyland and lived in their RV. How sad it will be now that they cannot park on the streets in Anaheim where they work for poverty wages at the land of the Mouse!
Homeless people live in cars and RVs all around town as the system seems to have failed them. I’m sure you’ve read, the county has hundreds of millions of dollars meant for helping the poor, but no politicians have the will or desire to even use that money. Is this a problem elsewhere in the world?
Habitat For Humanity is building homes in South Africa. Projects Abroad is building houses in Ghana, Senegal, Philippines, Tanzania, Jamaica, Nepal and South Africa. I think it’s high time to build houses for the un-housed here in Orange County and around America.
This has always been good advice: you first fix your OWN roof, THEN help your neighbor fix theirs. Not go fix your neighbors roof while your house is swamped. It serves no purpose unless you prefer sleeping on your neighbor’s couch! Put your oxygen mask on first then help others. Build houses here for the un-housed in America, THEN go build for poor and needy people in other countries.
What is the decision making process that says: look at that family right there that needs a house, or the person right in front of you, people you see every day living on the streets and then say, lets fly to the other side of the world and build some other people houses.
At this time, right here, that is the process, the politics of the homeless. Don’t build them a house, don’t give them fresh water, a toilet or shower; let’s do that on the other side of the world for the poor and needy. This is our world turned upside down.
http://www.cbs8.com/story/36866106/homeless-living-%20in-motorhomes-%20suing-%20the-city
“I think it’s high time to build houses for the un-housed here in Orange County and around America.”
(a) Yes, we need to build houses for the un-housed in OC. But where, exactly? Isn’t that always the problem?
(b) When these orgs build houses overseas, others do a great deal of work to find ‘somewhere.’ It’s not easy. Habitat does much more work in America than abroad, but even refurbishing an abandoned house here competes with flippers who do the same commercially, and isn’t always welcomed.
(c) Doing this sort of thing abroad is meant to be ‘an experience’ – more a species of ‘tourism’ than ‘charity.’ Still…witnessing poverty overseas shifts perceptions at home: one who has witnessed people struggling to get safe drinking water can see problems in Flint, Michigan a bit differently, and purposes for government agencies that actually do give us a lot, most of which we take for granted.
I quibble about those points because they’re not helpful to your main premise: “push the poor away – repeatedly, forcibly relocate them until they die” – a vile solution, unfit for a civilized people. You are so right on that, that unhelpful asides merely distract.
I hear folks complain, “We can’t have THOSE people near our children!” – and wonder: exactly what sort of children do such vicious people raise? Children capable of compassion, dedication, concern for the well-being of their community? Or narcissistic brats who throw rocks at the homeless or those suffering dementia? Why should I subsidize THEIR children, when they so obviously abhor values, and may have brainwashed their kids into similar viciousness?
BTW, Fingal, if you know of any groups here working on fixing this problem, I’d welcome an invite. I’m new to the community, looking to fill my schedule where I can with time invested in those who are doing something good – and willing to do what I can to stop those who try to profit from hurting the helpless. Indeed, the fact that I see a large number of similarly disposed individuals is why I’m commenting: I don’t know another forum to look for the folks I want to be my friends (and if I quibble, please know that’s just the habit of a lawyer who can’t help himself and bear with me – I’m not an asshole, and do want to help).
“Housing is a Human Right OC” meets every Monday evening at the Anaheim Unitarian Church – 7pm when there’s no Anaheim Council meeting the following night, 6pm for Anaheim members when there is.
Los Amigos meets every Wednesday morning at 7:30, at the Jagerhaus Restaurant.
Thanks for that, I’ll try to make it next week.
I don’t see why you have to bring resentment towards building houses for the poor overseas into it. At any rate, the biggest relevant difference between OC and places like Haiti and South Africa is the cost of land, more so than of structures built upon it.
The mayor was working on fresh water in Africa and the people on the river bed had no fresh water. The mayor was working on sanitation in Africa and the homeless people do not have access to toilets.
So people die here for the lack of services and the mayor is looking to Africa.
This is some strange stuff coming from this author.
Campers and large vehicles, including boats, have no business being stored on public property rent free.
Good for Anaheim.
I personally do not mind when the neighbor parks his RV on the street when relatives come in. I do not mind if the neighbor parks his plumbing truck on the street also.
If you drive around Anaheim there are not many and if there were it would be a problem.
But out of the few out there some are used by homeless people and the ordinance is specifically to target them. It was discussed and specifically pushed forward in community meetings by people that hate the homeless.
I remember reading articles about how Airbnb’s have exploded in the Anahiem area. Impacted neighborhoods, driving up rents and reducing longterm housing supply. Just tossing that on the fire.
Those rentals are in fairly stable neighborhoods where houses now sell for well over $500,000. This isn’t affecting minimum wage folks in Anaheim.
OK, the cost of land! That is always a nice OX to gore…. Come on now, we have opened our real estate markets both residential and commercial to billionaires and would be millionaires from China, India and the Middle East. Every developer and Real Estate Agent in The OC gets feverish, just by the mention. Meanwhile, the locals are jumping on AirBnb and Short Term Rentals as their answer to the Hyper-Inflated Global Real Estate Market which blots out more opportunities for people to rent. The number of Unregulated AirBub’s in LA is now upwards of 25,000 units. We need to get grip Regionally… In the old days the developers were building places in Apple Valley, Modesto and Fresno. Looks like Barstow is the next logical target area…eh? The average rent or mortgage payment in The OC now is right around $3400 a month….which is unsustainable….as Landlords kick out their old low rent tenants and replace them as fast as they can.
Rent control
My boyfriend and I just bought a 32foot motorhome, I get SSI and Bruce get retirement and with that we still can’t afford to rent a space to put our motorhome,He had to have a fibulater in his chest ( only 10% of his heart is working, he his trouble breathing and his spine is deteriorate, I broke my 5th, lumbar 3 years ago, I’m in stage 4 kidney failure, High Blood Pressure,I have trouble walking without falling, we’re not asking for anything free but we are asking for help in getting some where to park our rv.
There are others like us we ( all of us is just wanting help so we can try and have a almost normal life.
Your right there are some A.holes out here that wants a free ride and don’t give a dam about other’s but there is alsosome who wants to just have a spot to call home and and not to be a looked down on. So please if anybody knows of some place let us know. Thank you for your time and God Bless. Linda Harding
Contact Sandra Sagert
tell everyone to email her and the mayor
Ssagert@anaheim.net
ttait@anaheim.net – the mayor Tom Tait
Come talk at city hall next Tuesday 5 pm come early put in your name on the blue cards at the entrance to the council chambers and you will be one of the first to speak in public comments.
Bring more people to talk also if you can?
Everyone should talk if even a short speech – Say we need help.
Tell your whole story if you can – write it down and read it.
This is so sad my friend lives in an RV he can’t afford to rent. But now he just like anyone else struggles to park. RV parks don’t take RVs older then 10 years old and storage is not cheap and that means he has to sleep in his car. What can people that live in rv do?