A taxpayer-funded luxury apartment building is reportedly set to open in Los Angeles’s Skid Row neighborhood to provide hundreds of homeless people with housing and high-end amenities.
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Homeless Can Now Receive Healthcare On The Streets
A new rule allows health care providers to be reimbursed for treating homeless people wherever they are, rather than just in hospitals or clinics.
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Ninth Circuit Blocks West Coast Cities Plan To Get Homeless Off The Streets
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday again denied West Coast cities the ability to remove homeless people from the streets unless they can provide enough shelter for all of them.
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TB OUTBREAK IN LOS ANGELES
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Reports of an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the downtown area of Los Angeles has even the police taking precautions. Over the weekend, LAPD officers in the skid row area were advised via email and roll calls to use masks to protect themselves from risk of being infected by the disease if a situation seems to warrant the preccaution.
Mabel Aragon, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Health Department (LACHD), gave a statement Friday that the federal agency, The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is helping in the process of surveillance and statistic gathering as the LACHD is in the process of confirming the number and type of TB cases in LA County.
Scott Bryan, spokesman for the CDC, confirmed they have been asked by both state and local TB officials to assist with the investigation. They are planning on sending in a team in about 2 weeks to further help with containment of the disease.
According to the Los Angeles Times, there have been almost 80 cases of a unique strain of TB identified including 11 deaths. Of those, 60 of the cases were from homeless individuals from the skid row area of Los Angeles. The strain which is unique to Los Angeles can be treated with anti-TB medications for 6 – 9 months.
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Downtown L.A. TB outbreak: LAPD urges officers to wear masks
HOMELESS MAN SUES PARENTS FOR NOT LOVING HIM ENOUGH
A 32 year old man is still blaming his parents for the life he now leads.
Bernard Anderson Bey has self-filed a suit with the Brooklyn Supreme Court against his parents, Vickie and Bernard Manley, in the amount of $200,000. He claims that they didn’t give him enough support him enough or show him enough affection. He and his siblings were allegedly raised in a poor household where they were not loved enough. This is why he is homeless and destitute.
Now he wants his parents to make up for it. He wants them to mortgage their share of a Bedford-Stuyvesant home and use the money to open two franchises like Domino’s Pizza. This would provide employment for all of his family including his 5 younger siblings he claimed are on public assistance.
“Our whole family is really poor, and my father doesn’t care about the situation,” Bey said yesterday. “I feel unloved and abandoned.” He also claims in the suit that his father beat him, called him names, and did drugs in front off him.
His mother, Vickie Anderson, said, “He’s 32 years old. That speaks for itself. Welcome to America. Everyone in America has the same opportunity. Don’t blame the parents at this point. The choice is yours. You’re an adult.”
Bernard Manley said, “He’s not related to me. He’s not my son.” Bey is his step-son.
A sister said, “I’m not on public assistance. My parents were not terrible. They did the best they could. He chose the life he’s leading now.”
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Homeless man sues parents for ‘too little love’
San Francisco tops Businessweek.com’s 2012 Best Cities Ranking
If you don’t mind cooler weather, walking up hills and pricey homes then San Francisco might be the place for you.
Despite being under a million in population, the city has so much to offer… world-class restaurants and museums, fairs and festivals, a larger educated group and an economy that is holding its own.
The ranking came about with Businessweek.com partnering with Bloomberg Rankings which looked at 100 of the largest cities in the country.
There were many factors looked at. For the individual it cannot be said which is the best city as family, work, lifestyle and sports team connections all factor in.
Some common traits that put San Francisco at the top of the list are as follows: They scored highest in education, in leisure they placed sixth and it made the top 20 in air quality and economic issues. The events hosted by San Francisco makes it seem like there is a continual festival going on. Views which attract about 130,000 tourists every day and its general ambiance intensifies local offerings.
Downsides are that it has one of the largest populations of homeless people in the nation and that rent is over $2000 for… a studio apartment!
Comparison cities are Seattle which came in second, Washington 3rd, New York 7th and LA 50th.
Treatment for the Mentally ill Homeless in San Francisco
San Francisco has a large “severely mental ill” population who refuse treatment.
Both residents and tourists have complained about the “mentally ill homeless people” that create havoc, according to city leaders.
For years the city has debated how to deal with them. A version of a controversial law called Laura’s Law, has been recently implemented.
For a further description of Laura’s law that was created in 2002 in California see the referenced article S.F. tries version of Laura’s Law for mentally ill – SFGate.
For an in depth understanding of how mentally ill homeless people could influence a city spiritually see this teaching episode on Building the Warrior from Prophet.tv.
See also this associated article.
IS CANNIBALISM INCREASING IN AMERICA?
A man in Baltimore, Maryland, was arrested after the body of his room mate was discovered.
What makes this case unusual is that the man’s heart and brain were removed, and eaten.
But this is not the only case of cannibalism in the news.
Another man was shot dead by police in Miami, after Police found the man naked, and gnawing off the face of a homeless man.
Police are putting this grizzly crime down to LSD.
The first known account of cannibalism came following an expedition to the West Indies, led by Christopher Columbus,
usually in rituals connected to tribal warfare. Columbus and his crew supposedly discovered that the Carib West Indies
tribe participated in a particularly gruesome practice of ritualistically eating the flesh of other humans.
So, are these cases a manifestation of the increase in witchcraft activity in our nation?
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