I am taking that as a "no, I personally have never had to deal with squatters".
I have, it's terrible. If squatters moves into the building where you live I would feel bad for you, in the abstract you think you would feel bad for them but in real life if that happened to you then you would feel bad for you, and rightly so.
The city should come through there with firehouses and garbage trucks once a week. That would solve the problem.
we'll see if you sing the same tune when some squatters move into your building. I've spent a night on the street in California, the problem is that it is not so bad, what do you need a house for if it does not get that cold and almost never rains and you feel comfortable shitting in the street?
Meth is a terrible thing, once people are on it, which is something they choose to do, they are responsible for the plight they find themselves in, it's sad but meth addicts seldom recover even with treatment. Don't do drugs. Meth makes people do evil shit so I can't excuse it and I don't feel bad for them.
Trump is right that we need to reopen our mental hospitals because a lot of homeless people are mentally ill and so they should probably be in mental hospitals getting treatment.
What the city did do there is put all those people in motels, how long until the garbage piles and fires in the motels force them to be condemned?
people who choose to be homeless in coastal California have only first world problems. You can rent a very nice three bedroom house with two bathrooms and a garage and a yard in Modesto for $1000 a month, but it is not hip or near the beach.
It's the drug, sadly by criminalizing cocaine it created a demand for a cheap alternative and there was meth.
But crack heads don't have the stamina to rip all the pipes out of someone's house, they don't generally have the drive to build elaborate shantytowns.
Cocaine is actually fairly easy to quit and low on the scale of addictiveness, relative to meth for sure. Crack heads neglect their kids, meth heads abuse them.
I fully support legalizing cocaine.