Newsom and the power-RATS desperate for the homeless vote...
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He did all this thinking the feds would underwrite the costs.
Newsom really made a bad gamble.
Whole lotta stupid goin on out there.
Gee, I wonder if any of Gov. Nuisance’s family member or cronies benefitted from those lease payments.
As I predicted when the idiotic concept was floated, homeless people would rather camp on sidewalk than live in hotels. They are not homeless due to lack of shelter beds (or even hotel rooms) but rather because THEY DON’T WANT TO LIVE WITH RULES.
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I think your prediction was correct...
I drive around in City of Los Angeles...I still see many homeless people living in tents...City has supplied them with portable sinks and toilets...
LAPD will not force homeless people go to hotel...It is voluntary...
There was a homeless woman, who had COVID-19...She left some hotel...LAPD eventually found her...She told cops that she did not want to go back to the hotel...Cops let her go...
I assume (perhaps incorrectly, which would make it even worse) that when they leased these rooms they negotiated a much lower price than is usually charged for the rooms individually.... But I wonder if the taxpayers would be better off, given the huge vacancy rates, if the rooms were rented as needed at their regular rates.
They probably got tired of the muffin stumps, lobster shells and chicken skins, and flagged books. And people trying to strap them onto rickshaws.
Newsom has plenty of money.
Think of the scattered feces, drug paraphernalia, parasites like bedbugs and other tiny horrors.
anyone know if hsr to nowhere construction is still ongoing?
Where does CA get all this freakin money?! They spend and spend and nothing seems to get better, no problem is solved. Amazing.
I used to know a guy who was the director of a relatively large shelter in Detroit. That’s exactly what he told me. Most of them live on the streets because they want to
Government social program to fight homelessness doesn’t work.
Story at 11.
I’m shocked.
Can you imagine having a job cleaning hotel rooms through this as it is—and then getting your clientele switched to the hardcore homeless?
Homelessness is always a choice.
Having volunteered extensively with homeless shelters over the past 30 years, you are exactly correct. It is not uncommon that a shelter would have empty beds for just the reason you stated. The problem is mental/emotional illness and or severe substance abuse (for the most part). Some, quite frankly, are just free spirits and don’t want any help. Anyhow...
They left when the minibar ran dry...