A Bay Area News Group poll found 75% of registered voters in the region believe homelessness is getting worse in their communities.
Despite spending billions of dollars in recent years to bring homeless people indoors, cities across the Bay Area continue to struggle. In Berkeley, a bicyclist rides past an encampment along Harrison Street.
“We’re living in like this crazy world where this is somehow now OK,” Emily Winston owner of Boichik Bagels, said about a homeless encampment near her Berkeley business. “This is where society fails to have an answer — that’s how I see it,” said San Jose resident Elleen Crockett, who used to be homeless and now lives in an apartment across from what was a large tent encampment the city cleared earlier this year.
In many instances, including recent efforts to clear massive encampments from near the San Jose Mineta International Airport and along Wood Street in Oakland, judges ordered officials first to prove they could provide shelter to camp residents. But even then, many homeless people turned down beds, often concerned shelters couldn’t accommodate their physical or mental disabilities.
Rishabh Kumar, a poll respondent and Democrat in Berkeley, is in favor of the new program despite his reservations about infringing on homeless people’s personal freedoms.
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