Posted on 04/17/2024 1:32:05 AM PDT by Libloather
Los Angeles voters were asked to back a “mansion tax” to raise money for homeless housing after passing a $1.2 billion bond measure to build the same. Now Mayor Karen Bass wants rich residents and businesses to pitch in more money.
During her State of the City address, the mayor called on business leaders, charities and wealthy residents to donate money to get homeless Angelenos off the streets, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Bass urged those with the means to help buy or lease buildings that can be converted into housing for L.A.’s 46,000 homeless residents.
“We have brought the public sector together,” Bass told a roomful of elected officials, department heads, business leaders and political appointees at City Hall. “And now we must prevail on the humanity and generosity of the private sector.”
A year ago, the city enacted the voter approved Measure ULA, a 4 percent tax on property sales for homes and commercial properties above $5 million and a 5.5 percent levy on properties above $10 million. It fell far short of a promise to generate hundreds of millions to house homeless residents.
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Good for her to stick it to the people of LA.
Gee, thanks.
The elites want to virtue signal for socialism? Fine. Let them put their money where their mouths are.
I read the whole article and I must have missed how much she is donating of her public salary to the homeless.
Yup
Somehow it reminds me of (during Covid) Newsom that told all California’s to keep distance while he dined with a group..
Lots of the homeless prefer to live on the streets. They don’t want housing.
If I was wealthy and lived in L.A. I would get the hell out while I could. Even take a hit on the house, it’s only going to get worse. Texas, maybe Florida. Mayor Bass stay in L.A., please.
“Somehow it reminds me of (during Covid) Newsom that told all California’s to keep distance while he dined with a group..”
...a classic photo/example of “for thee, but not for me” elitism.
I think a good use of the rich would be to build various plots on their land, build bungalows for the immigrants and then give them jobs. Pay them a decent wage and sponsor their getting visas.
/lol. sometimes I do amuse myself.
>Does that include “asylum” BENEFITS seekers?<
I think it only includes them.
EC
Hasn’t about 50 billion already been spent ( flushed down a rat hole) on the homeless they can’t account for?
“a 4 percent tax on property sales for homes and commercial properties above $5 million and a 5.5 percent levy on properties above $10 million. It fell far short of a promise to generate hundreds of millions to house homeless residents.z”
trying to soak the rich ALWAYS falls far short of the “promised gazillions” ... and ALWAYS has negative unintended economic consequences for everyone else ...
Call it what it is...an illegal immigration tax.
And, how will they pay the taxes? Utilities? Food? This is nothing but a feeeeel good idea that will do nothing for the homeless except get them evicted down the road.
Our problem is not degenerates (junkies and alcoholics), it's that we no longer enforce laws. I absolutely hate liberals.
...and since you pretty much have to be rich to live in LA, that means everyone needs to pay.
gotta admit it’s a diabolically brilliant plan to open the floodgates to illegals and ne’er do well’s and then make the people who voted for it PAY for it. Bravo!
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