Posted on 12/18/2022 10:14:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
The new mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, said Sunday her administration will start moving homeless people from tent encampments into hotels and motels through a new program that launches Tuesday. […]
On her first day as mayor of Los Angeles, Bass declared a state of emergency on homelessness. She vowed to get people housed and more housing built so that residents can see a real difference, which hasn’t been visible despite billions spent on programs to curb homelessness, including $1.2 billion in the current city budget.
Bass, a Democrat and former congresswoman, has said she intends to get over 17,000 homeless people into housing in her first year through a mix of interim and permanent facilities.
An estimated 40,000 people are homeless in Los Angeles, a city of nearly 4 million. Homelessness is hugely visible throughout California with people living in tents and cars and sleeping outdoors on sidewalks and under highway overpasses.
Bass said outreach workers will try to coax people indoors. People are homeless for a variety of reasons, including mental illness, addiction and job loss. …
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You’re right..I didn;t see far enough into the future to see no hotels or motels anymore....
Can’t be true..Dems have pretty much sainted the homeless....How dare you bring in reality
And I'm sure that the other - paying! - guests staying in adjoining rooms will love it, too!
/mordant sarcasm
Regards,
What a story they will be able to tell their family and friends....Of course, they have to live through the vacation. from hell first......
Pretty sure the mayor/city council have no actual authority to DEMAND private enterprise comply with this.
Any hotel/motel dumb enough to grab the short term profit despite the virtual certainty of ensuing destruction and criminal activity had better have the OWNERS consent, not just the manager who will eventually be fired.
Does the county stand for the damages, or just shrug and tell the hotel/motel to turn it in to their own insurance?
The “Homeless” are not troops, but this sort of demand certainly runs counter to the intent of the third amendment. It is also a “Taking” of private property.
I stayed in a motel in Jackson MS in Jan 2006. The room next to me was noisy late into the night. On checkout I learned they were Katrina refugees. I think that motel had many.
Most of these people are mentally ill and should be placed in institutions not hotel rooms.
hotels and motels will love it...They get paid and rooms are full
Did the nation vote for BiteMe?
You do know CA has mail-in voting, right?
“No mention of open border!”
Or laziness. (Get an effing job, Loser.”
We had 22,000 of the most recent swarm in NYC at the last count.
I never realized how compliant everyone had become with the anti-litter campaigns—until the latest batch of migrants arrived. They throw everything just where they got tired of holding it. Plastic dishes with food still in them and an endless barrage of cups still with liquid and straw. Half-eaten sandwiches.
I believe the hotels WANT this arrangement; they no longer deal with vacancies, and they are paid regularly. If LA is facing similar problems seen in other left-wing cities, this may be the only way they stay open - wealth transfers from us taxpayers to them.
There was a story years ago here in NJ where shore motels which had made this deal with the devil (for revenue utside the summer months) were preventing the welfarians from using facilities like the pools; it included signs making it clear the pools were for paying guests. If paying guests had to contend with the unwanted welfare spawn, nobody would pay to stay there.
I believe Asbury Park has some places that only serve these people (as normals don’t vacation there anymore), and in western NJ there seems to be a similar deal made with illegals/day laborers.
“A mayor cannot just order an owner to give up their buildings to anyone let alone alcoholic and drug addicts!”
WuFlu changed everything. Now any liberal politician can order people to do anything — and people willingly comply.
This hasn’t been America for a very long time.
“this sort of demand certainly runs counter to the intent of the third amendment. It is also a “Taking” of private property.”
When did liberal politicians start worrying about any amendment to the Constitution?
“Pretty sure the mayor/city council have no actual authority to DEMAND private enterprise comply with this.”
Government had no actual authority to DEMAND churches to close in 2020 — but they did it.
“I can’t imagine how badly a bunch of homeless people would trash a hotel.”
instant 40,000 of crack-house rooms ... guaranteed ...
no decent hotel is going to participate since regular folk will NOT pay $150/night to share facilities with crack-crazy gutter denizens and their diseases and their lice and their bedbugs ...
“Isn’t the HOTEL CECIL one of those hotels fro vagrants????”
i think they tried to split the baby, with half for vagrants and half for tourists, with separate entrances ... but once inside, common facilities like elevators were shared ...
The drug advocates have turned the town into a slum.
How many are scheduled for this hotel?
https://www.dorchestercollection.com/en/los-angeles/the-beverly-hills-hotel/
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