Save Our Community was founded in the movement to resist Wal-Mart's development in Rosemead, California. Now, it has become a general site for news, information, gossip, talk, and blogging about Rosemead. We also have stories about South San Gabriel, San Gabriel, Montebello, and occasionally about Pico Rivera, El Monte, South El Monte, Alhambra, Temple City, and other nearby communities. Your host is Todd. If you want a blog just sign up, get approved, and start writing. Good posts will be moved onto the home page.
Yeah, it's been on the rise
Yeah, it's been on the rise in general in all suburbs the past decade. Gentrification is driving not only the sewing businesses out of downtown, but also the people who lived in welfare hotels and the people who were homeless and used the services down there.
That, plus this high unemployment is making things a lot tougher. Homelessness is way up, and I bet mental illness is taking its toll, too.
There are not a lot of safe places to sleep outdoors because the police are quicker to roust people sleeping in public.
I feel proud to live in
I feel proud to live in Rosemead: Land of the free and home of the homeless.