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# He’s gone, but not forgetting
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/hes-gone-but-not-forgetting-editor/
- Published: 2006-04-18T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:38:01.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless, Homelessness

*By Tony Street Bend, Ore.*

Well, it’s been three years since I left the Toilet-by-the-Sea and — surprise, surprise — you are all still crying the same song. Boo-hoo-hoo to all of the people who keep complaining about the homeless and yet allow the city to elect leaders who remain exactly the same politically — hippy-dippy, feed-the-world, pony-tailed losers that will forever continue to allow (no, encourage) a large homeless population in Santa Monica.

You want to vote in some new level-headed people that actually have the best interests of Santa Monicans? Then demand that any proposed homeless “stabilization facilities” be located in the NOMO neighborhood. The NOMO liberals will be quick to end the city’s homeless-friendly nature faster than you can say “decaf, no-foam latte.”

As for the latest “educated” homeless editorial by Theodore Henderson (SMDP, April 7, page 7), it’s obvious that he has put the new $70 million library to good use.

Henderson lists among other reasons for homelessness, “the lack of affordable housing,” “low-wage jobs,” “high unemployment,” “racism,” and “growing affluence.” The unemployment rate (which is the lowest in decades) notwithstanding, it seems as if LA is just a hard place to make it. My question is, why would anyone who is on the low rungs of the socio-economic ladder ever choose to locate in Santa Monica given those harsh realities?

I’m guessing that it has something to do with the fact that you get a lot of free stuff from City Hall, that you can always find a nice comfy “sandbed” to sleep on, that the weather is great most of the year, and you can continue to entertain thoughts making it as a famous —— (fill in the blank — thespian, writer, director, etc.) Santa Monica will be stuck with the same old communist/socialist mentality in City Hall until the number of market-rate renters outnumbers the amount of rent-controlled renters. Then and only then will Santa Monica get rid of the homeless problem once and for all. See you then.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 18, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/041806.pdf?ref=smdp.com)