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LA County leaders greenlight effort to pay homeowners to house the homeless
LA Daily News ^ | 08/15/17 | Susan Abram

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; losangelescounty
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To: aquila48
Great idea.

What could possibly go wrong?
 

21 posted on 08/15/2017 10:00:06 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: aquila48

How long before they force people to take in the homeless without paying them for the “privilege”?


22 posted on 08/15/2017 10:01:40 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: Slyfox

“How long before they force people to take in the homeless without paying them for the “privilege”?”

They did something like that in Europe to house the rapefugees...

http://pamelageller.com/2015/09/europe-seizing-homes-to-house-muslim-migrants.html/


23 posted on 08/15/2017 10:10:00 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: rockinqsranch
#20: "How can they pay homeowners to house the homeless"

A voucher against property taxes? In which case LA can raise property taxes to force homeowners to take homeless … or else.
 

24 posted on 08/15/2017 10:23:54 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: aquila48

Thx for the information.


25 posted on 08/15/2017 10:41:53 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
All I can think about right now is the "William F. Buckley Jr. Rule" - vote for the most conservative candidate who can win.

Therfore, anyone who said Trump couldn't win is automatically disqualified from a credible assessment of Moore's chances.

26 posted on 08/15/2017 10:44:23 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: aquila48

Offical LA County motto:

“Give me your mental cases, the poachers,
your drugged masses yearning to live free”


27 posted on 08/15/2017 11:36:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

“yearning to live free”

Yearning to live FOR free.


28 posted on 08/15/2017 11:52:11 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: rockinqsranch; Governor Dinwiddie

“Last I read/heard the City of Los Angeles is broke. How can they pay homeowners to house the homeless?”

According to the article they’re talking about a program of only $550,000, which, for LA county with over 10 million people, is less than pocket change. That’s round off error territory.

According to their projected cost per housing unit, that’s going to build housing for TEN “homeless”, out of a supposed homeless population of 55,000!! It’s so insignificant as to be laughed out of town.


29 posted on 08/16/2017 12:07:06 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

I think Beverly Hills would be a perfect place for a program like this. But since there won’t be many volunteers, it should be made mandatory.


30 posted on 08/16/2017 12:16:36 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: aquila48

$550,000 is just about enough to pay 2 LA janitors for a year.


31 posted on 08/16/2017 12:20:44 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: aquila48
Unlike a guest house, second dwellings include kitchens.

Huh, who knew?

32 posted on 08/16/2017 2:02:31 AM PDT by Tax-chick (You can't read all day if you don't start early in the morning.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Well...Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher both died and left Beverly Hills compounds .How many homeless could live there? Think Fishers daughter would welcome a dozen or so? Why not???


33 posted on 08/16/2017 4:42:53 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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34 posted on 08/16/2017 6:24:49 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

After hearing of this proposed “program”, how could anyone not think LIB idiots to be mentally ill.


35 posted on 08/16/2017 6:29:39 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: fini

Good plan, but The last person I want living in my mother in law unit is my actual mother in law!


36 posted on 08/16/2017 6:30:34 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Trump's election does not release you from your prepping responsibilites!)
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To: aquila48

And once they start to trash your property, sell dope from your “guest” house, and break into your house to steal property, you will not have any way to get rid of them because of eviction laws ...


37 posted on 08/16/2017 6:34:05 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: fini

Haha that is what I was gonna say. Have your daughter/son register somewhere as homeless and get a free small house built for them.


38 posted on 08/16/2017 7:14:00 AM PDT by sheana
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