Tens of thousands of severely mentally ill homeless in California
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By JANIE HAR

August 8, 2021



OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The big brother Suzette Chaumette remembers was witty and kind, an aspiring historian at the University of California, Berkeley whose promise was derailed by mental illness. Over the decades, he struggled with bipolar disorder, cycling in and out of hospitals and halfway homes and into homelessness.

In June, she saw him on the local news, lying on the ground and under arrest for allegedly throwing a water bottle at California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Authorities called the 54-year-old man “aggressive.” It was the first time she had seen him in years.

“I never thought he would be that guy, but he is that guy,” she said, crying. “He’s not a bad guy. He’s got great intentions and really would take the help if he was in the right place.”

In California, a quarter of the 161,000 people experiencing homelessness also have a severe mental illness. An estimated 37,000 people pinball between nonprofits and public agencies, cycling through ERs, jails and the streets, sometimes for decades, with no one monitoring their overall care in a fractured system that nobody entirely knows how to fix.



Full report at: https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-hea...12d99583ce
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Karma works fast nowadays ..... paying the debt of their war mongering ways, destruction of people lives and homes for their self interest  Clapping Clapping Clapping

KTV妹妹说,香港人无义,台湾人无情,新加坂人无智 Big Grin
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I saw this YouTube video and was shocked. ..it shows on normal streets many young women are working as prostitutes . it is so common and average drive you will see them at very corner....

I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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(09-08-2021, 11:15 AM)sgbuffett Wrote:  I saw this YouTube video and was shocked. ..it shows on normal streets many young women are working as prostitutes . it is so common and average drive you will see them at very corner....

Country is like hell on earth shootings, homeless ....

https://youtu.be/tcWUAlJtj8s

I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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(09-08-2021, 11:20 AM)sgbuffett Wrote:  Country is like hell on earth shootings, homeless ....

https://youtu.be/tcWUAlJtj8s

If don't prostitutu money come from where. Big Grin
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