Get a fucking clue you moron. Where's your facts? Any research? No, just another ignorant fuck who who revels in "his" know-nothingness. Here's a couple facts for you, fuckin' bigoted cretin...

From:
Dead end street: Sometimes there is no escape from homelessness
www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2003/December/14/local/stories/01local.htm

Dollars are stretched thin and the county’s homeless population is growing — having doubled in just 10 years, according to local service providers.

There is a dearth of emergency shelter spaces and long waiting lists for overnight shelter countywide. And some homeless, burdened with serious drug or mental illness, are beyond reach of the county’s limited services.

Ken Cole, director of the nonprofit Homeless Services Center in Santa Cruz, said the perception that Santa Cruz "has this great system of services" is wrong.

"Our experience is services are fragile and inadequate," he said.
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The city of Santa Cruz — home to the county’s greatest concentration of homeless services — has an estimated $1.2 million budgeted for homeless services this fiscal year, a figure that has declined during the past two years, according to city officials.

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From:
"Housing and Homelessness in Santa Cruz County 2003", released in June of 2003
www.cabinc.org/Research/housing-and-homelessness-2003-report.htm

1.) Of all the people who are going to become homeless in Santa Cruz County over the course of the coming year, most are currently housed. Prevention services are very important.

2.) Homeless people don’t come from somewhere else; they are mostly from Santa Cruz County and they are our neighbors, our sons and daughters, our friends.

3.) Homeless people overwhelmingly want to live in a home; they are not homeless because they want to be.

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More than half of homeless people were between the ages of 30 and 50 and more than half have children. Surprisingly 28.4% said that they grew up in Santa Cruz County and the report contradicted a common misconception, the “magnet theory�, that homeless people came from somewhere else. In fact, more than two thirds reported that their last permanent housing was in Santa Cruz County. Only one in 10 cited their last permanent housing in another U.S. State. 81% have lived here for more than a year and of those more than half said they had lived in Santa Cruz County for more than ten years and 23% have lived here for more than twenty years.

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