Posted on 12/18/2022 4:20:13 PM PST by simpson96
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said over the weekend that she wants to eliminate the homeless encampments that are plaguing the city’s streets through the state of emergency that she declared on her first day in office.
Bass made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” with host Chuck Todd.
Bass claimed that 95% of the city’s 40,000 homeless people would accept taxpayer-funded public housing if it was offered to them.
When asked by Todd if she would allow LAPD and sanitation officers to continue doing sweeps of the encampments, she said, “no” and that she wanted to put the homeless people into hotels.
“No, these are not sweeps at all. This is getting people to move on their own, but then after the person leaves sanitation is absolutely going to have to be there,” she said. “No question about it. But this is not coercing people. This is not ticketing people or incarcerating people. This is moving people from tents to hotels or motels.”
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Take an RV with you. You don’t want to stay where any of them have “lived”. Motels and hotels will have to be razed, burnt and rebuilt after they get thru with them.
Free Uber?
Free Escorts?
Free BLD?
Free Steak?
Free heat?
Today’s Headlines: Why 600 rooms at the Cecil Hotel for L.A.’s unhoused are mostly empty
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/newsletter/2022-12-13/600-rooms-cecil-hotel-for-los-angeles-unhoused-are-mostly-empty-todays-headlines
Another way to make Los Angeles the worst city in the world.
Yes, those are good examples.
Yet another reason to avoid California. If the elites have their way and polish off 2/3 of the population; how much does anyone here want to bet that the homeless will be the first ones on the chopping block.
And the city should provide room service and housekeeping! LOL!!
This will fail, as all leftist solutions do, but the leftists will push for an expansion of the failed policy, which will fail too, prompting leftists to demand.....
Repeat until doomsday.
Hotels? Is there room service?
How fun for the hotel staff!!!
Only chumps pay rent.
I remember staying at the Cecil Hotel in 1965 after hitchhiking south from Washington. It was affordable. The lobby was filled with wooden theater seats and in the morning it was filled with derelicts reading the Racing Form. The busses direct to the track (Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, Los Alamitos, whichever was running) stopped in front of the hotel. At least these bozos paid their own way!
Thanks.
Main thing to remember is to smile as we say “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Won’t you be my neighbor?”
By the way, I learned on FR that “houseless” is the new term to replace “homeless.” So Mayor Bass isn’t fully woke?
Will the hotel and motel owners have any choice in this? I know that lot of properties, past their prime for tourist or located in bad neighborhoods, have managed to stay open as long-term housing. But I remember reading that New York City has either a proposal or an actual law that requires any hotel room not reserved or occupied by 2 p.m. be available for the homeless. I can’t imagine that would be any good for owners or for bona fide hotel guests. Will the homeless be checking out every day?
I thought it was “unsheltered.” Mayor Bass is a couple of iterations behind.
Love govt seizing private property for their purposes. /sarc
Remember the Marist college father that was killed in a Marriott lobby in NY recently at 0730 getting his coffee. Place had been housing transients(drug addicts).
A Marriot, not a Motel 6.
When making reservations, one would be advised to ask if they house homeless or illegals. If they refuse to answer, tell them to get bent.
What could go wrong.
Who pays for damage? Who pays when the homeless bring in fleas and bedbugs? If I ask "How many homeless slept in your hotel last night?" will I get a straight answer?
Now that you mention it, I do remember that.
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