Staggering homeless count stuns LA officials
CNN Politics,
by
Maeve Reston
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
6/6/2019 7:48:24 PM
The stunning increase in homelessness announced in Los Angeles this week — up 16% over last year citywide — was an almost incomprehensible conundrum given the nation's booming economy and the hundreds of millions of dollars that city, county and state officials have directed toward the problem. But the homelessness crisis gripping Los Angeles is one that has been many years in the making with no easy fix. It is a problem driven by an array of complex factors, including rising rents, a staggering shortage of affordable housing units, resistance to new shelters and housing developments in suburban neighborhoods, and
Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 6/6/2019 7:49:10 PM (No. 92265)
If you offer it free, they will come.
D'oh!!!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/6/2019 7:58:20 PM (No. 92270)
After wading through the whole article, I was happy to see that none of the problems were the result of unchecked illegal immigrant migration. Illegals were not mentioned once, or if they were, I missed it. Of course, this is CNN politics, so is any of it true?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/6/2019 8:00:06 PM (No. 92272)
I didn't see any mention of illegal immigrants in the article, so at least that's not part of the problem.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/6/2019 8:12:19 PM (No. 92278)
No Snow step 1
Free food and needles step 2
Step 3? close the eastern border so the rest of us do NOT have to deal with the results of your stupidity..
Regrettably, because of the US constitution we can't.
Please Keep them there Feed them and drug them and let the rest of us deal with the THREAT.
We can handle it..
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One of the problems they complain about is that residents resist having homeless shelters put up in their neighborhoods. Understandable, since they are paying mortgages or rents to live in those neighborhoods.
Why not simply build minimalist homeless 'cities' in uninhabited areas around LA? Build plywood houses with public access to water and communal restrooms with sewers. Then bus the homeless (one-way) out to their 'cities'. Have the county mobile medical RVs roll in a couple of times a week.
I know the complaint from the libs would be "Out of sight, out of mind! We must all share their misery!". Of course the complainers are not part of the 'we' that would be sharing the misery.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/6/2019 8:20:50 PM (No. 92282)
FTA … This data is stunning from the perspective that we had hoped that things would be trending differently, but we will not ignore our realities," Ridley-Thomas said after the numbers were released " and he put his cut on the bank."
Seriously? Ridley-Thomas ? Not SIR Ridley-Thomas? Oooops it's LA, they don't do the royalty thing do they?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 6/6/2019 8:25:30 PM (No. 92284)
Let me get this straight - Tens of thousands of homeless people crashing out on the streets and tens of thousands of illegals welcomed into the city to fill the job vacancies for unskilled and trade labor?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 6/6/2019 8:29:15 PM (No. 92285)
You get more of what you subsidize, and less of what you tax. Perhaps LA should enact a tax for living on the streets.
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It's very expensive to live in most of California, particularly within 30 miles of the beach.
It's what the policies of the politicians have created.
They were all for those hospitality jobs, which are mostly low-paying, and they enact all sorts of extra costs, particularly gasoline($3.80-4.20 per gallon) and auto insurance which makes it harder for people to get to and from work.
A 1 bedroom apartment will be roughly $1500-1800 per month, and a 1450 sq ft. 4bd, 2 ba, home in the town of Orange, in Orange County, is listed for $735, 000 - it likely won't be on the market more than 30 days either.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/6/2019 8:53:13 PM (No. 92295)
Unexpected, surprising news, the homeless enjoy being homeless.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Northcross 6/6/2019 9:04:34 PM (No. 92300)
"...almost incomprehensible conundrum given the nation's booming economy and the hundreds of millions of dollars that city, county and state officials have directed toward the problem"
I guess it never occurred to them that all this money lining the gutters of LA might BE the cause of the problem.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
PostAway 6/6/2019 9:28:33 PM (No. 92311)
Just another city infected by problems caused by Leftist policies. These problems seem to be made deliberately so that politicians have caused that they pretend to want to solve and thereby collect more money for their next campaign. Meanwhile, the problems mount and the dissatisfaction of Americans is close to boiling.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 6/6/2019 9:30:09 PM (No. 92312)
In statistics, there is a thing on a chart that is shaped like a parabolic curve- it indicates the situation of "The worse it gets, the worse it gets." If you see a parabolic curve disaster is looming and you had better take action fast to stop it. Lost Angels "Officials" (read leftists) are now facing the parabolic curve of the homeless invasion. The more bums you allow, the more bums you get.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 6/6/2019 10:04:57 PM (No. 92332)
LOL #14 (kindly) Yeah, that 'take action' thingy is workin real well with the parabolic of caravans.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/6/2019 10:08:37 PM (No. 92337)
What OP said. Idiot Dem mayor Eric Garcetti just doesn’t get it. His do-gooder throwing taxpayer money at it - to make the homeless more comfortable -acts as a magnet to draw more here. Obviously, the weather here is better year-round. The same thing that for years drew the homeless to Santa Barbara until they began to get tough up there. Whether that has lasted or not, I know not because I’ve been away for a number of years since the downtown cleanup and discipline took place.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/6/2019 10:11:22 PM (No. 92338)
(cont’d)
Re the kvetching about the price of homes and rents, those are driven by just one thing: The market. The more market demand, the more people wanting to live in a certain area are willing, able and motivated to pay for housing, the higher the home prices and rents.
Any licensed real estate sales person should know this fact.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/6/2019 10:13:36 PM (No. 92340)
One more thing: The illegals come here to work, not to hang out and sleep on the streets.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/6/2019 11:28:46 PM (No. 92378)
The more “free” socialist housing they build and move the “homeless” into, the more “homeless” are going to appear on the streets of Los Angeles. That’s just human nature.
As far as illegal aliens are concerned they are clustered in huge areas where large numbers live together as households, sometimes in was is zoned to be a one family home with a garage, where every room and the garage are used as bedrooms, with all chipping in a percentage to pay their mortgage or rent.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/6/2019 11:37:19 PM (No. 92385)
Why are these LA morons stunned? They wanted sanctuary for anyone and anybody and now they have it and are reaping what they've sown.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/6/2019 11:52:07 PM (No. 92391)
The City of Lost Souls. The Angels left a long time ago.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DaddyO 6/7/2019 4:20:03 AM (No. 92437)
And the people who run California couldn't care less. They're all future democrat voters, Democrats will be in power for decades to come. And if it causes sane people to leave California? Even better, less chance their power will be taken away from them.
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The more the city spends on the homeless, the more they have. When do the bells ever go off?