Should rich cities & towns be allowed to dump their homeless on poorer cities& towns?

[CaliNative]

Article in L.A. Times today about how the affluent towns of south Orange County shoo their homeless to the less affluent and poor towns of central & north Orange County (Santa Ana, etc.). Just another odious aspect of "NIMBYism". It makes you wonder why you find so few homeless camping on the streets in places like Burlingame & Woodside & Beverly Hills & Mission Viejo & San Marino & Pacific Heights. A judge in Orange County said this "homeless dumping" should be illegal, and I agree. All cities. affluent or poor, should help solve the homeless problem. More housing & shelters, not bus tickets out of town. Shifting the problem won't work.

Anybody have any anecdotes of possible "homeless dumping" in your city or metro area? Are homeless "dumped" across state lines? California seems to get a lot of homeless from around the country.

[CherryCreek]

Originally Posted by CaliNative

Article in L.A. Times today about how the affluent towns of south Orange County shoo their homeless to the less affluent and poor towns of central & north Orange County (Santa Ana, etc.). Just another odious aspect of "NIMBYism". It makes you wonder why you find so few homeless camping on the streets in places like Burlingame & Woodside & Beverly Hills & Mission Viejo & San Marino & Pacific Heights. A judge in Orange County said this "homeless dumping" should be illegal, and I agree. All cities. affluent or poor, should help solve the homeless problem. More housing & shelters, not bus tickets out of town. Shifting the problem won't work.

Anybody have any anecdotes of possible "homeless dumping" in your city or metro area? Are homeless "dumped" across state lines? California seems to get a lot of homeless from around the country.

Another factual situation illustrative of the need for national solutions addressing the problem. If it is left solely to the cities (or even states) you will have a race to the bottom or further adoption of tactics designed to put the burden on someone else.

[Pedestrian]

I'd turn this around: Should poorer cities and towns be allowed to dump their homeless on richer ones? San Francisco has documented a number of cases of places in Nevada and elsewhere giving homeless one-way tickets to SF.

SF reaches $400K settlement proposal in Nevada patient-dumping case
By Joshua Sabatini on October 5, 2015 1:00 am

San Francisco’s more than two-year legal battle with Nevada over the state’s practice of sending psychiatric patients (who, on release, become homeless) to The City has reached a conclusion in a $400,000 settlement pending approval by the Board of Supervisors and the state of Nevada.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera launched an investigation and subsequently filed a lawsuit over the dumping of patients after the Sacramento Bee exposed the practice by a Las Vegas-based psychiatric hospital in 2013.

The amount of the proposed settlement is $400,000. Other details are not yet public. The lawsuit also sought protections to ensure the practice would not occur again. The Nevada Board of Examiners would need to approve of the terms, which it may do as early as Oct. 13.

In a statement issued Friday to the San Francisco Examiner, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said that the settlement would “validate the patient management best practices and procedures which Nevada has had in place for two years.” He added, “We look forward to working with California to ensure all patient transfers to and from both states are managed using these best practices and adhering to conditions detailed in the agreement” . . . .

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-reaches...-dumping-case/