Los Angeles is spending up to $837,000 to house a single homeless person

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[BenLurkin]

A $1.2 billion program intended to quickly build housing for Los Angeles’ sprawling homeless population is moving too slowly while costs are spiking, with one project under development expected to hit as much as $837,000 for each housing unit, a city audit disclosed Wednesday.

[Seruzawa]

Only a few paltry thousand actually makes it into the building. 90% is skimmed by bureaucrats and NGOs. These programs are little more than money laundering.

[TXBlair]

You, sir, are a true humanitarian. 😂

[IYAS9YAS]

There’s no waste like government waste.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

There used to be a cheap method of building houses known as the Dicker Stack Sack method. Wonder if the state could get the bums to build their own houses using this method.
Company is gone now but the idea remains.

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[rlmorel]

Because they know that tomorrow they will come back and get another $100K even though they got $50K yesterday.

There is not end to it.

[xp38]

Here’s a story...

[HighSierra5]

Figures.

[Bullish]

Yeah, well as long as we supply them with crack pipes and needles, right?

[ifinnegan]

This is why these programs exist.

Pays a lot of salaries. Pays for a lot of retreats.

[realcleanguy]

True there is no end to it

[Dilbert San Diego]

This looks like the Brady Bunch house.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It’s the humane thing to do.

[GraceG]

Why not just hand each one 50K and a handshake, and say “Good Luck”?

Hell....

Give them 50k and a ticket to mexico.... if they keep out of the cartel’s hair, they will live like KINGS!

[Track9]

Exactly.

[I want the USA back]

It would be cheaper to put the person on the payroll of some company that owes the democrats a favor and pretend that he is working.

[Leep]

I’ve met quite a homeless people who feel safer on the street than in a shelter.

[Lockbox]

The median home price for LA was estimated to be around $790,000. The median household income in Los Angeles, CA in 2019 was $67,418.

So people who go to work, pay taxes and buy their own house have their taxes used to provide a house equal to theirs for free to people who do not work or pay taxes!

Raises the question, "Why bother to work?".

[Lizavetta]

I’ve been to that street and seen the house. It looks far smaller, the street is narrower. It always looked so spacious in the picture but it’s not. And the neighborhood is a bit shabby now.

[keving]

Mexican resorts are ear empty and probably safer than the streets of LA or San Francisco,

[eyeamok]

I’m not sure if any new moble homes are any cheaper.

Last October I paid $215,000 for a Brand New 1800 sq ft Manufactured House Delivered to my 10 acres in Northern Los Angeles County. But it cost me OVER $300,000 for permits and compliance of those permits.