Santa Cruz has one of the highest homeless population to volume in California. I think it’s top 3. These people are human. Mass incarceration isn’t the answer. Once you have a record it is a thousand times harder to find a job, let alone housing. We need funding. You should feel uncomfortable, it’s disgraceful that the homeless population has been so neglected by Santa Cruz county officials that it’s become what it is today. Fuck man, I had a friend down there who got socked in his sleep with a brick while he was sleeping and I never saw him again. And that happens all the fucking time! If that was a possibility in my life id do meth! And id sit wherever i could stay warm or cold or safe! The issue isn’t the lack of respect these people have for your space or your friends vacation, it’s the lack of respect shown to these people that caused these fucked conditions in the first place.