News · moment 8 of 19
California Asks Homeowners to House the Homeless
from #287 - Drug Recognition Expert | The Tim Dillon Show · #287
7 min
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Tim reacts to a news story about Bay Area officials recruiting homeowners to open spare bedrooms to homeless people and former inmates, riffing on the danger of housing strangers with mental illness or addiction and mocking the state's failure to use its own tax revenue.
- California asking homeowners to open their homes to nearly 30,000 unhoused people in the Bay Area.
- Tim describes the practicalities of housing someone potentially addicted to drugs and emotionally unstable in your spare bedroom.
- Homecoming Project recruits landlords to house formerly incarcerated people for $30 a day, with case managers to help them find work.
- Tim supports rehabilitation and employment for non-violent offenders but finds it absurd that California's only solution is asking citizens for spare rooms.
- Story of a Beverly Hills worker with the homeless who was followed home and stabbed to death by a homeless man.
- Tim notes that Zach Stein and his wife volunteered to house a struggling young woman for three months in their Albany home.
- The Steins inherited money and want to help others, but bringing people with mental illness and addiction into your house puts families at risk.
- Democrats have lost the narrative by pushing extreme ideas like asking homeowners to take in homeless people instead of focusing on core issues like healthcare.
- Most people aren't trained to deal with someone experiencing psychosis, and American households already contain people with mental illness issues.
- Tim jokes about wanting to program a homeless person brought into the home to do pranks on politicians like throwing bread at them.
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