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Luxury homeless apartment building opens in Los Angeles. $600,000 per unit, paid for by taxpayers.
Citizen Watch Report ^

Posted on 06/20/2024 5:30:06 AM PDT by davikkm

In downtown Los Angeles, the Weingart Center Tower has recently opened as a high-rise homeless shelter. Here are the key details:

The tower comprises 228 studio apartments, 47 one-bedroom apartments, and three apartments for onsite managers. Each unit costs an estimated $600,000 and is funded by taxpayers. Residents will have access to amenities such as a gym, an art room, a music room, and a library. This building is the first of three towers planned for the project, with the second tower set to open in 18 months. The initiative is part of LA’s efforts to address homelessness, following the passage of Proposition HHH in 2016, which allocated $1.2 billion in bonds for housing developments for unsheltered residents.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: california; homeless; la; luxury
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1 posted on 06/20/2024 5:30:06 AM PDT by davikkm
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Pretty sweet drug den. Should be getting some unsurprising headlines coming out of that complex in the future.


2 posted on 06/20/2024 5:32:44 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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Sounds like that addresses the root cause of homelessness, eh?
Just give them luxury condos.
Problem solved…


3 posted on 06/20/2024 5:34:45 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: davikkm

What could go wrong? 🤷


4 posted on 06/20/2024 5:35:40 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Brought to you by the same brainiacs that spent TWO MILLION DOLLARS on ONE public toilet.


5 posted on 06/20/2024 5:36:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: davikkm

“unsheltered” residents, “woke” nation is so creative with their verbage.


6 posted on 06/20/2024 5:37:39 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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To: davikkm

Who will b in charge of the drug and booze deliveries?


7 posted on 06/20/2024 5:37:41 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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How about taking the $1.2 billion and put them to work cleaning the streets, janitorial services for public buildings, or on-the-job training programs? A housing plan like this does NOTHING to solve the problem but simply attracts more homeless people to free housing.
8 posted on 06/20/2024 5:37:53 AM PDT by econjack
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Thank God we have California as the perfect example of the kind of destruction Wokeism leaves in its wake.

Poor Gavin Newsom. He will always look like a complete ninny by being a loyal party hack.

California looks worse than it would if Cheech and Chong had been running it in the 1960's.

"Free weed for everyone...and feel free to Bogart that joint!"

9 posted on 06/20/2024 5:38:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (It's funny that the harder I work, the luckier I get.)
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To: davikkm

Perhaps some one is looking for an insurance pay out in the near future?


10 posted on 06/20/2024 5:42:05 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Thank goodness it’s in LA. Imagine when the government starts putting up these boondoggles in rural areas demanding that all Americans share the burden of the great unwashed. Hundreds a foreign soldiers bivouacked in the middle of Iowa or Indiana.


11 posted on 06/20/2024 5:43:37 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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So, it’s a high rise luxury Project..

How long does a person live here and still be homeless?

And once that Homeless person moves in, and then brings their family to live with them?

I am guessing that they, will be allowed to live their until death? Then the remaining family will inherit, and this will be passed down generation to generation?


12 posted on 06/20/2024 5:45:11 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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Cool! The meth chefs will have clientele built right in on every floor. Lots of money to be made until the whole thing is brought down by one of the many dealers’ kitchen fires. Even if it never burns down, no biggie. Chemical/toxin related building inspection codes only pertain to normal people. Criminal riff raff will get a pass for the greater good of its esteemed residents.


13 posted on 06/20/2024 5:49:49 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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California - land of nuts and flakes: just to stroll down memory lane, how’s that high speed rail system working out for you?


14 posted on 06/20/2024 5:50:47 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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Nobody remembers Cabrini Green?


15 posted on 06/20/2024 5:52:39 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Trump's experience? We're next.)
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Chicago has some building names they aren't using anymore, so let's call this place "Cabrini Green".

Or "Robert Taylor Homes"

Or "Ida B. Wells"

It would be like launching a cruise ship and calling it "Titanic II". Or "Son Of Minnow"

16 posted on 06/20/2024 5:55:52 AM PDT by Bernard (“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
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Looking at it looks like a recipe for disaster. They will turn it into a s**t hole like they do to the streets.


17 posted on 06/20/2024 5:56:05 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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This was tried before, sort of, with public housing high-rises, many of which have since been torn down.

Cabrini-Green in Chicago is a good example. Shootings, high crime, unlivable for many of the residents.

18 posted on 06/20/2024 6:03:14 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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Once again the DemocRATS message...... F’ decent American taxpayers!!


19 posted on 06/20/2024 6:12:01 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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Yeah, that’ll work. /s

I wonder what fool has underwritten the insurance.


20 posted on 06/20/2024 6:19:48 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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