Posted on 09/22/2015 10:21:28 AM PDT by PROCON
Members of the Los Angeles City Council are expected Tuesday to declare a “state of emergency” on homelessness and commit $100 million toward housing and other services for homeless people..
The announcement coincides with Mayor Eric Garcetti’s proposal, issued late Monday, that the city devote nearly $13 million toward short-term housing initiatives paid for with projected excess funds.
If approved, the pair of initiatives could significantly increase the resources dedicated to tackling homelessness in a city where the majority of the 26,000 homeless people live on the streets.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
{Councilman} Cedillo did not disclose where the $100 million would come from, saying instead that he would rely on the city's policy analysts to identify the funding sources.
Funding sources = Taxpayers who actually have a job and are already over taxed.
And liberals wonder why folks are leaving Kalifornia in droves.
“{Councilman} Cedillo did not disclose where the $100 million would come from, saying instead that he would rely on the city’s policy analysts to identify the funding sources.”
Tax food. People will then eat less and the food not sold can go to the homeless. /liberal logic point 150.
They’re going to declare a state of emergency because some people choose to live on the streets?! They’re trying to help people who don’t want any help. In the end, a lot of people will make a lot of money and the homeless issue will remain the same.
They will never make any headway as long as government at all levels supports an open border policy that brings in more unskilled moochers every day.
Maybe they could start with JOBS, lower rent, lower food prices. That would help.
Raise the minimum wage to $50 per hour. Problem solved./s
I guess they don’t think they have enough bums - if you house and feed them they will come.
Obviuosly they haven’t learned the “Merkel effect”.
These funds won’t “fight” homelessness, they will only encourage it.
They are not doing this for the homeless, they are doing it for the votes from people who will feel better.
Selfish bastards, this borders on sociopathic behavior.
They treat them like stray pets out here. yet I see the same people at the same corners everyday. They can show up for that they can show up for a job.
Reminds me of the guy that would beg for money on the LIRR just to get a ticket to get home.. Then go get on a train in Grand Central and use the same story just a different stop.
Oh, and don't expect any of that money to go towards helping displaced American refugees. You know, the ones who used to “do the jobs that Americans won't do” as it is known by the bush clan.
I bet LA Lawmakers all have BIG HOMES. Problem solved.
I’ve had some personal experience with the homeless. In the cases I know about it was due to alcoholism and/or drug abuse. The majority of the homeless are homeless because of decisions they made and continue to make. Spending money on them allows them to continue making the same poor choices they made in the first place. To end homelessness stop enabling it. Make it illegal to give money to the homeless. Arrest them and put them in programs. If they refuse the programs just keep arresting them until they go to Seattle. (Seattle has a HUGE homeless problem. I listened to a woman on the Seattle news wailing, “We give them free medical, free housing and free food. WHY do we still have a homeless problem!? I expected the interviewer to backhand her. But he just made sympathetic noises.)
Didn’t L.A. tell its homeless about the wonderful economic recovery?
Let me translate:
$70 million will be stolen (based upon current welfare admin/recipient distribution)
$15 million will be spent on diversity pavilions, environmental studies, egghead speaking fees, and other nonsense.
$15 million will be spent directly, upon the homeless themselves.
And a $10 million deficit will be created by having to remove the homeless implementations that the homeless p*ss and s**t all over.
LOL
I’m shocked that LA claims it has excess funds. Creative accounting?
This is a problem created by Liberals.
Up until the 1970s most big cities had what were called “flop houses”. Perhaps 50 cents a night for a bed. No place I would want to stay but it was inside and out of the weather.
The do-gooders via regulations closed them all down.
Next, minimum wage was just that, minimum and reporting and record keeping requirements were let us say, flexible.
A business could hire a casual worker to do odd jobs and both would benefit. That is almost impossible today.
There were also state run hospitals where the really unstable people could be sent if not for a cure, at least for a place to live with food, clothing and shelter.
There were also vagrancy laws.
Charity was provided by locals, via churches are civic organizations. The one thing this guaranteed was that no one would be able to make a living off of charity.
Liberals in all their wisdom wanted to make life better for the “homeless” and all they did was make more of them.
“Homelessness” as it stands today was created by liberals and will not be solved by liberals.
The mayor of the city is a deviate homosexual in a city which puts criminals and illegal aliens over legitimate citizens and military veterans.
They deserve everything coming to them x5.
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