The irony..

Just reminds me when I discovered that "wrong side of the tracks" isn't some cute folksy sayinging in the USA, it's a real thing. I remember being so shocked when I took a rental car for a "road trip" between two conferences about 10 years ago, and I drove through smaller US cities. One second you would be in quiet, quite pleasant suburbia, and then you'd cross a railway crossing, and BOOM, utter third-world levels of squalor on the otherside of the tracks. No transition, no warning, no industry- straight from people cheerfully mowing their front lawns, to people living in caravans and shanties. Weird.

Definitely cherry picked, though. Much of Sacramento is very nice, though it can get hot and is getting hotter. It tends to have lower buildings than a lot of big cities. And it has a humongous number of trees. https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/sacramento

San Fran is worse. Why do you think 2 million people left, half of them for Texas. Cali has high homeless, high trash rates, poor resource management, and high political corruption

As a person who lives in Sacramento California, it's so hard to see this image. As a city we have been trying to find the right solution for homelessness. We give vouchers for hotels, have shelters available, and are using tiny houses. In spite of all of this there are still a group of people who will NOT live indoors. We have tent cities too. This is so hard to deal with. SACRAMENTO IS TRYING TO HOUSE ALL.

illegal dumpers do this in every city

Lived in Sacto a few years, you can find scenes like this ALL throughout the city. One time I saw a full on tent neighborhood complete with a community picnic table and grill under a canopy, under the overpass.

Ah yes, Sacramento. Lovely, isn't it?

There’s the nice places in Sacramento, and then you’ve got central downtown.

Homeless people come to California from all over the nation. Some states even put them on buses and send them to California. A number of homeless individuals are homeless out of choice. They refuse to enter shelters or housing because they would be required to live by any rules. Many others are mentally ill and because of certain laws, cannot be helped against their will. Look at the many articles about Governor/President Reagan's cavalier attitude toward the mentally ill. https://www.abc10.com/mobile/article/news/local/california/a-brief-history-of-mental-health-care-in-california/103-537434252

This is what wealthy Californians have done to the entire American west. Nobody can afford a house. Their fleeing their state has put the rest of us out of reach of rent/ a home. The Haves displace the Have Nots. .. The American Dream is a nightmare.

People leave because they don't want to end up homeless due to high taxes and corruption.

irony

So build infrastructure, bring in jobs house people and give people lives to live .

no thanks.

Is that an SUV buried in all of that?

Probably because YOU'RE DUMPING TRASH ON THE CLEAN LAND

:'(

Nah!

Mister Rogers would be disgusted

At least he's got a good neighbor.

How sad. But for some kids he's hope.