Dorm Housing, Communal TVs,
Underground Tunnels Envisioned
For ‘All-Inclusive’ $3 Billion,
300-Acre City For The Homeless
CBS [CBSLA],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
12/22/2019 4:11:33 AM
LOS ANGELES – A California crowdfunding effort is hoping to solve the U.S. homeless crisis by building a 300-acre city open exclusively to those without a home.
Daune Nason, founder of the Folsom-based Citizens Again, released details Thursday of his plans for an estimated $3 billion private city equipped with amenities and services for a 150,000 “high-needs” population. California’s homeless population in 2018 was almost 130,000, nearly a quarter of the national total, according to the most recent federal data.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 12/22/2019 4:22:22 AM (No. 268912)
Imagine what this Utopia would look like in 6 months.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sw penn 12/22/2019 4:59:11 AM (No. 268920)
A gilded cage is still a cage...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 12/22/2019 5:15:23 AM (No. 268925)
Typical California, they want to hide the problem instead of fixing the problem.
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What an ignorant fool. Not only will drugs get worse but they will be pooping on the floors indoors. Who is cleaning all this? Then the illegals will demand to take over.
Last paragraph is always the important one.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PChristopher 12/22/2019 5:35:04 AM (No. 268936)
And all that will do is attract more and in a few months it will look worse than Watts
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 12/22/2019 5:54:27 AM (No. 268941)
What could possibly go wrong?
The best idea would be to bus them to another city. Problem solved. Cheaper in the long run.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 12/22/2019 6:41:49 AM (No. 268960)
Repeat after me: Whatever you subsidize you get more of.
They obviously can’t get enough ‘homeless’ in Cali
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 12/22/2019 6:54:17 AM (No. 268964)
How many ghettos do liberals have to build before they admit the concept doesn't work. A city of largely dysfunctional and unstable people. What could go wrong? Most of these people are homeless for a reason that is not easily fixable. This almost sounds like the "mental institutions" we abandoned years ago. They cost a fortune and were largely warehouses for seriously dysfunctional people.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Sergeant Major 12/22/2019 6:56:51 AM (No. 268966)
This "concept" has communism written all over it. A commune is a commune no matter how you paint it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/22/2019 7:07:13 AM (No. 268970)
Put a wall around it, with a locked gate, and take care of the wretched souls who wander and poop in the streets.
That is the kindest act available.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rather Read 12/22/2019 7:15:21 AM (No. 268974)
I can't imagine the hell hole this will be if it ever gets built.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
StormCnter 12/22/2019 7:19:28 AM (No. 268976)
Back in the olden days, Fort Worth had a "skid row" with bars and hot-sheet hotels, but there was also a group of "missions", Baptist, Salvation Army and a city-operated one, each offering clean beds, hot food and perhaps a Bible verse or two. Vagrancy was a misdemeanor and those who loitered were hauled down to the pokey for a night. It worked.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/22/2019 7:49:24 AM (No. 269001)
Warsaw ghetto anyone?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/22/2019 7:50:51 AM (No. 269002)
They can save a HUGE amount of money by not installing toilets and showers. The homeless don’t bother using them anyway, so there you go!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
janjan 12/22/2019 7:53:16 AM (No. 269008)
Typical of most liberal big ideas. Let’s throw taxpayer money at the symptoms and ignore the root cause.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/22/2019 7:59:37 AM (No. 269013)
Any suggestions for the name of this newest ghetto? Maybe Pelositon, or Schiffton or Nadlerville?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Albatross 12/22/2019 8:03:57 AM (No. 269017)
Great idea! Let's build it next to Barbra Streisand"s house.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Kafka2 12/22/2019 8:12:44 AM (No. 269024)
Now what do you get for $3 Billion (or more) if you put all the mentally disturbed and drug addicted in this facility with no treatment of their problems and no supervision? In 6 months, a facility knee deep in trash, drug needles. and human waste and the diseases that go with it unfit for human habitation.
A monument to mindlessly throwing money at a problem while doing nothing to solve the problem.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/22/2019 8:20:51 AM (No. 269028)
The animation of this proposal looks lovely, downright charming. Sentient folks at leisure, coupling up, watching Ram games, not a one face down in his own filth. I might be a little worried about a resemblance to Chicago's Cabrini Green or St. Louis's Pruitt-Igoe but those places didn't have wind farms!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 12/22/2019 8:34:26 AM (No. 269036)
If you build it, they will come.
Tooo small. Needs to be larger. Say, the size of a California?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
padiva 12/22/2019 8:35:53 AM (No. 269037)
How many police stations will be needed?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
chumley 12/22/2019 8:42:28 AM (No. 269041)
Looks like they only got $60 so far. Not likely to happen.
Even in the military, where almost everyone is sane and almost nobody an addict, the barracks gets messed up. Inspections are frequent and still you get occasional slobs. What will happen when most of the people are mentally ill and/or drug addicts or alcoholics with no self control? I bet they cant keep employees very long.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MickinPhoenix 12/22/2019 8:48:24 AM (No. 269042)
More $$$ demanded by incompetent State Government Officials to go to waste on stupid ideas. How about like it used to be, get a job or get out of our State.......PERIOD....Mick
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/22/2019 9:05:01 AM (No. 269054)
Isn't this simply a souped-up version of what they already have on the streets of San Fran? It also appears to be a test of the Marxist one world government, where people will be monitored, given accounts that are added to and subtracted from for services. This Marxist move seems to be happening everywhere, not just in Washington. obama's job was to strip America down, and hillary was supposed to finish US off. PDT wrecked their plan by WINNING! I believe President Donald Trump is a threat to something bigger than the DC swamp.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/22/2019 9:05:19 AM (No. 269055)
Sounds great! Instead of homeless they can call them "Morlocks."
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 12/22/2019 9:05:53 AM (No. 269056)
Hilarious! They have raised $60 bucks for their $3 bln dream. Where is Cali getting all their money to make their dreams come true? The unicorns (lefties, dems, progs, etc.) just are so proud of themselves. Aren't they just full of virtue? Each and everyone a Genius. We should turn our lives over to them. They should all have top-shelf government jobs where they will decide for us what we need and dole health, wealth, and all that is best for us. Why it just sounds like communism.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 12/22/2019 9:17:46 AM (No. 269066)
This will work about as well as any other public housing project. I wonder who will get the demolition contract. DJM
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
4poster 12/22/2019 9:21:42 AM (No. 269068)
Won’t work. There are already shelters going begging. Homeless get out of there as fast as they can. They find it too dangerous.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
jacksin5 12/22/2019 9:36:59 AM (No. 269081)
Why am I reminded of the B Movie horror flick "CHUDS" (Criminalistic Human Underground Dwellers).
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Safari Man 12/22/2019 9:38:37 AM (No. 269085)
If you are required to be homeless to live there, don't you have to leave as soon as they give you a home?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 12/22/2019 9:39:41 AM (No. 269086)
A shiny new housing PROJECT. That will work for sure! Gotta wonder why haven't the Dims thought of this before?
Oh, WAIT...
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
DVC 12/22/2019 9:40:58 AM (No. 269088)
We have always had bums, lunatics, drunks and drug addicts. We just haven't catered to them before, we have run the bums off, put the lunatics in asylums, and kept the drunks and drug addicts from causing trouble by jailing and other legal methods to make them uncomfortable, and not bother normal folks.
The problem is catering to and subsidizing these problematic folks. Move them out, and don't make it pleasant for them.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/22/2019 9:51:23 AM (No. 269096)
Dorm housing? No. Its a refugee camp for the homeless. Will the homeless be forced to move there? This sounds like housing for illegal immigrants as well.
"amenities and services for a 150,000 “high-needs” population."? As in from each according to their abilities to each according to their 'needs'?
This has been tried before on a lesser scale. They were called 'The Projects', and were torn down inside of 20 years because the people living there destroyed them. Imagine the crime. Imagine the filth. Only on a larger scale.
Someday, can see the feds taking over California because the state government has wrecked everything.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/22/2019 10:19:26 AM (No. 269114)
Sure sounds like a proposed socialist utopia where all the “residents” without residences will be registered Leftist or liberal Democrat socialist voters. The perpetrators of this new private city are going to need a lot of luck getting President Trump to pay for the proposed infrastructure and the elite workers who will come into the city through tunnels to keep the place above board.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/22/2019 10:52:07 AM (No. 269143)
A $3 billion roach hotel and open toilet.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
FLCracker 12/22/2019 11:29:32 AM (No. 269167)
Build it and they will come.
As I understand it, California already has approximately half the homeless in the country. I t looks like they want the other half, too.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
kono 12/22/2019 11:42:47 AM (No. 269172)
This "solution" has already been tried and found not to work. But the party who is working to destroy our nation's past ensures that we will have to re-learn these things, because nobody will be taught about how Socialism has been tried on this scale before and rejected after being found to make the problems worse.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
melman 12/22/2019 11:47:09 AM (No. 269175)
Would be unlivable inside of six months.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/22/2019 12:43:18 PM (No. 269205)
If they have a home there, they won't be homeless.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 12/22/2019 1:52:11 PM (No. 269251)
Sounds like a good place to sleep. If they think the clients will stay there during the day, they have another think coming. 'The streets are made for walking ====== '.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/22/2019 3:44:35 PM (No. 269291)
In the hands of Leftist "Social Engineers" what could possibly go wrong? LOL!
I propose naming the streets of this vagrant mecca things, like,
Crack Street
Roach Drive
Crank Road
Meth Lane
Ecstasy Tunnel
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 12/22/2019 3:53:13 PM (No. 269297)
This reminds me of kids shouting - Hey! Let's build a fort!!
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Apologies for a second post. All this ambition but they can't build affordable housing for veterans and normal working people.
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