Posted on 08/15/2017 9:17:55 PM PDT by aquila48
A pilot program that pays some Los Angeles County homeowners to build a second dwelling on their property to house homeless people was approved with a 4-0 vote Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors.
Homeowners in unincorporated communities who qualify can receive up to $75,000 to build a second dwelling in areas zoned for such structures, while others may get $50,000 to update and legalize an existing dwelling.
The program was introduced last year as part of Los Angeles County’s set of 47 strategies to solve homelessness. The office of Regional Planning will work with several departments countywide with an allocated $550,000 in part to be used to offer subsidies.
Unlike a guest house, second dwellings include kitchens.
The program also will streamline the permitting process and provide technical assistance to homeowners within the county’s unincorporated areas, who would qualify, officials said.
Details of who would be housed and the selection process are still under discussion, said supervising regional planner Connie Chung on Monday. Funding allows for two to three new second dwellings, and for the remodeling of two to three existing ones, she added.
The program is expected to be completed within 18 months.
Homelessness spiked 23 percent across Los Angeles County’s neighborhoods and suburbs this year compared with 2016, with more than 55,000 people sleeping on sidewalks, in their cars, or along the Los Angeles River, according to results of a count taken in January and released in May.
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The other thing it will do, it will attract even more homeless, since if you house them, feed them, clothe them, give them money.... they will come.
It’s like feeding pigeons. You just get more pigeons.
Turn your home into a homeless shelter LOL
99% of “homeless” are lazy, communist, expect-others-to-feed-them waste of human flesh. Brought to us by illegals supporting, welfare supporting, afraid to clip their breeding morons.
Wake TF up low IQ idiots. Work for a living or GTFO and die in the sand or jungle.
What’s wrong with an idea that proposes mentally ill people be dormed one room from virgin daughters and first born sons?
I say go for it Lefties. I’m right behind you. 20 miles behind you, but I am behind you...
Will NEVER agree with this.
If you build it they will come
A good portion of these people have mental issues. Others are just down right criminals. I don’t think this program will end well.
Agreed...
The Left is unhinged.
Simply address what they propose and let the public figure it out. They will...
L.A. can always stop advertising itself as a sanctuary city and bringing in illegals....nah, that’s not going to happen.
Sunday night is ‘Give your bum a sponge bath’ night.
Excellent. Hopefully the lazy sign-holders trying to Frisco Colorado Springs will thumb rides back to the coast. And a butt-cold snowy winter will help them go. We haven’t had one for awhile, we’re due a damn good “global warming” flip-off.
LOL. What could have caused this? Sign me "Stumped."
I find myself able to support that.
They don’t have evil intent, and you are providing a service God would be proud of.
Well. What hell happened to the neighborhood?
Looks like a cheap and fast way to get a mother-in-law apartment built. So what if the homeless person is related to you. If you can pretend to be the opposite sex from the tackle you were issued, then you can pretend that your mother is homeless and needs shelter.
This will not end well.
Yet another liberal recipe for disaster!
Last I read/heard the City of Los Angeles is broke. How can they pay homeowners to house the homeless?
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
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