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Results Of 2015 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count To Be Released (4pm today)
CBS ^ | 11 May 2015

Posted on 05/11/2015 11:06:49 AM PDT by 11th_VA

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Monday was expected to release the results of the 2015 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count.

The number, which will be the largest in the nation, will be presented at 4 p.m. at the LAHSA Commission Meeting.

The LAHSA was created in 1993 to address the problems of homelessness in LA County.

Members coordinate and manage over $70 million annually in federal, state, county and city funds for programs providing shelter, housing and services to homeless persons.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: amnesty; california; cbs; illegals; lahsa; losangeles; seebs
So I was in LA this weekend and saw the huge encampments all around downtown - Looked like a movie set. I recall a few homeless on the streets of DC when Reagan was president, and it seemed to make the news every night - now that Obama is president, not so much ...

This is Picture From Google Maps, it's a lot worse now than the picture shows, people actually have tent's pitched all over.

1 posted on 05/11/2015 11:06:49 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

People are being transported here from other states. We have over a third of all welfare and illegals here.


2 posted on 05/11/2015 11:10:51 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: 11th_VA

$70 million. One county.

I wonder how many homeless we would have in two years, if all the support for the homeless vanished overnight.

There’s an old saying.

If you like something, subsidize it.


3 posted on 05/11/2015 11:11:32 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: 11th_VA

Homelessness is never a priority of the left when a liberal is president.


4 posted on 05/11/2015 11:11:59 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
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To: 11th_VA

A while back John and Ken of kfiam640 did their show from a area near Staples in LA.


5 posted on 05/11/2015 11:12:32 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: 11th_VA
Homeless problem ?

What homeless problem ?

Can't possible be a homeless problem...there are only homeless when there is a GOP POTUS .

6 posted on 05/11/2015 11:19:08 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: 11th_VA

90% of homeless people WANT to be homeless. Spending money on them is a waste of time. Many are mentally ill.


7 posted on 05/11/2015 11:19:24 AM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
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To: 11th_VA
WashPost 7-11-2010:

FIVE MYTHS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS

1. Homelessness is usually a long-term condition.

To the contrary, the most common length of time that someone is homeless is one or two days, and half the people who enter the homeless shelter system will leave within 30 days, never to return.

Long-term homelessness is relatively rare. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, about 2 million people in the United States were homeless at some point in 2009 (meaning they stayed overnight in a shelter or in a place not meant for human habitation). But on any given day, only about 112,000 people fit the federal definition of “chronic homelessness,” which applies to those who have been continuously homeless for a year or more, or are experiencing at least their fourth episode of homelessness in three years.

Nearly all of the long-term homeless have tenuous family ties and some kind of disability, whether it is a drug or alcohol addiction, a mental illness, or a physical handicap. While they make up a small share of the homeless population, they are disproportionately costly to society: They consume nearly 60 percent of the resources spent on emergency and transitional shelter for adults, and they occupy hospitals and jails at high rates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070902357.html

8 posted on 05/11/2015 11:24:55 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: 11th_VA
The numbers will be ZERO - because AS WE ALL KNOW, there are only homeless people when evil-white-racist-Rethuglicans are in power, right?

Right?

9 posted on 05/11/2015 11:25:48 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: upchuck

Many of them won’t observe the prohibitions on alcohol and drugs that most shelters impose. And as long as they’re leeching off the public square they figure they might as well be in a pleasant climate.


10 posted on 05/11/2015 11:27:07 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: A CA Guy

Plus, if you’re going to be homeless in the lower 48, SO CAL is a great place to stay warm and dry almost all year long!


11 posted on 05/11/2015 11:33:21 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: 11th_VA

Thanks for posting the google link. Here’s another. For those who rarely visit US cities, the view from Google’s car driving through LA Skid Row can be heartbreaking. Depending on the version of your internet browser, you may be able to also change your photo date within the range of 2007 to present. If you want to see Obamanomics in action, give it a try. If the below link doesn’t work for you, search for 326 E 6th St Los Angeles, California or alternatively, Skid Row Los Angeles, California.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Panama+Hotel/@34.042924,-118.246319,3a,75y,128h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s_cSE68BnxfG7sFwTeOMUow!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x80c2c636f7d0d2d9:0x80999d8dbf03fdb3


12 posted on 05/11/2015 11:44:37 AM PDT by XHogPilot
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Where's the psychic prediction of Edgar Cayce when ya need it?

13 posted on 05/11/2015 12:37:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: A CA Guy

The vast majority of any money allocated as per these formulas will flow to fund union government employees who administer the money. It is a total scam.


14 posted on 05/11/2015 1:19:54 PM PDT by Sam Clements
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To: XHogPilot
Yeah, enjoy the drive thru LA:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.042652,-118.245895,3a,75y,115.5h,81t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1saVYObfGiNTQOJqt9nSqSJA!2e0!6m1!1e1

15 posted on 05/11/2015 2:22:00 PM PDT by 11th_VA (where's Brutus?)
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To: Sam Clements
What LA's homeless need to better realize their predicament,
is a box of the "magic glasses"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8AMRbqY6w

16 posted on 05/11/2015 4:05:23 PM PDT by research99
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To: XHogPilot

For ten years I worked in the warehouse district around 7th and Alameda....lots of stuff to behold in the blocks around the area.


17 posted on 05/11/2015 4:10:02 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: Nailbiter

for later


18 posted on 05/11/2015 11:22:57 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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