LOS ANGELES - Homeless
LA city council votes to name hotels that refuse to house homeless, may ‘commandeer’ them
The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday voted to identify hotels refusing to take in the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic and said they could possibly be “commandeered.”
Only 1,582 people have been placed in hotels, far short of the city’s goal of housing 15,000, FOX 11 in Los Angeles reported....
“If hotels are making a distinction among people classifying housed and unhoused differently in terms of accommodations that they’re going to be repaid for, that the city and county will pay for with reimbursements, then I think there’s a potential civil rights violation,” Councilman Mike Bonin said. “If the problems are on the hotel end, the public should know why, and then we should consider commandeering as they’ve talked about in other cities.”
The council also plans to investigate if hotels refusing to house homeless have received tax breaks from the city recently.
NYC
Former NYPD commissioner bashes de Blasio over ‘atrocious,’ ‘outrageous’ bid to enforce social distancing
“I think it’s atrocious. I think it’s outrageous that the mayor would put the cops, the men and women in law enforcement in a position to do this,” Kerik said, adding that the order “contradicts everything you want to think about with regard to community relations.”...
...”I think the mayor forgets [that] the mayor is responsible for New York City,” he said. “Not the president, the mayor.” Kerik noted that former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani kept a plaque on his desk that read “I’m responsible,”....
“[Giuliani] had to prepare for the crisis. He had to work on the response, the rescue, the recovery, the investigation ... not just calling out the president and saying ‘You will give me this,’” Kerik said...
Kerik added that too many political leaders don’t feel the same accountability when they order extensive lockdowns and business shutdowns, specifically calling out New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs employee with a net worth of millions of dollars.
“[He] doesn’t give a damn about the people in New Jersey that have to live paycheck to paycheck,” Kerik said of Murphy, adding, “these mayors and governors are breaking people — mentally, financially, professionally.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bernard-kerik-bashes-de-blasio-social-distancing
That right there is about the worse form of government possible. Force a private business to house people it does not want on its property. Next they will be forcing homeless into your home. The city needs to build its own shelters.