Posted on 08/20/2019 3:02:01 AM PDT by Libloather
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — There is a new effort to help ease the homeless crisis in Southern California.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters hosted a hearing in Exposition Park Wednesday to take a closer look at homelessness in Los Angeles and try to find a solution.
Democratic members of Congress heard testimony about the homeless crisis and explored the question, “What can the federal government do to help?”
“The federal government has been missing in action,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
A fresh approach - not enough of someone else's loot.
I have known several people who worked with the “homeless” and even an employee who was making $50,000 per year who decided to go homeless. It is not (usually) an issue of money per se. It is drugs, alcohol and mental illness. There have been several experiments of just giving the homeless apartments with furniture and food. They sold the furniture and food for drugs and moved out. The employee I mentioned told people he intended to drink himself to death but he ran out of money before he died. I conclude that more money for Section 8 will make zero impact on the homeless problem.
Send a few million of the illegals in California home. (1) That will get rid of a lot of these homeless criminals, and (2) that will free up homes for real Americans who are homeless because they have been priced out of the market by multiple families of illegals sharing homes that should go to citizens or to legal residents.
Maxine waters creating a socialist utopia in her back yard that we the tax payers will pay for but far enough away that they cant be seen, heard or smelt
NO. CA created this mess. They need to fix it on their own.
Send all illegals home.
Open mental health “hospitals”.
Have well behaved, and non violent, prisoners clean up LA trash.
On the contrary....it should further increase rent prices.
The Los Angeles government has been active in inaction.
No more federal funds to bail out California’s bad decisions!
Any homeless problem in LA is NOT a FEDGOV problem - it's an LA/CA problem.
Because the only reason the “homeless” are homeless is because they don’t have a home.
If you want more of something, reward it.
If the Left is truly concerned about the Environment and the plight of the poor, they would be forcing the "migrants" back to their home countries.
If the homeless don’t have jobs, they don’t need to be in LA. Convict them of vagrancy, ship them off to a work farm, get them cleaned up there.
It is tempting to throw more money at this but it will do nothing to stop the drug crisis, which is likely the root cause of all of this.
What COULD the federal government do to help California with their housing crisis...
Let’s see.. There’s something, almost at the tip of my tongue..
Wait, I’m getting it now.. A million... YES, there it is, deport a million illegal aliens which will immediately free up at least 400,000 residences.
“NO. CA created this mess. They need to fix it on their own.”
California can build communes across the state where the homeless can have a place to live. However, the communes need to be self sustaining and funded with private money. Use the Kibbutz model.
Each year, as a show of thanks to the government for creating such a egalitarian society for the homeless, two homeless from each settlement will go to the city and participate in games. They will demonstrate their skills for potential sponsors and on the last day each “tribute” will compete with the others for the rights to call their commune the best.
Hmm.... I have seen this before.
Want even MORE homelessness? Why, create more Section 8 housing.
Mad Black Maxine is proposing an additional valve and piping to funnel money from the treasury into the pockets of corrupt black cronies in LA
Does the federal government also need to set up a feces and needle cleanup task force, with a rodent exterminator division, for California, also?
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