Posted on 09/25/2020 6:49:07 PM PDT by karpov
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Throughout Garcetti’s seven years as Mayor, Los Angeles has witnessed a shocking explosion of homelessness. When he took office in 2013, the city had about 23,000 residents classified as homeless, two thirds of whom were unsheltered, living on the streets. By mid-2019, the figure was about 36,000, and three-quarters of them were living on the streets. Currently, there are 41,000 homeless. Garcetti’s pet plan to alleviate the homelessness crisis was the construction of permanent supportive housing. In 2016, compassionate voters approved $1.2 billion in new spending to fund these units. Three years later, only 72 apartments had been built, at a cost of about $690,000 apiece. Meanwhile, an El Salvador-based company has come up with nifty $4,000 3D-printed houses that look like great places to live and can be put up in a single day.
There’s also been a failure to admit that housing alone isn’t the solution. As urban-policy researcher Christopher Rufo explains, only about 20 percent of the homeless population are people down on their luck, who just need housing and a few supportive services to get back on their feet. Approximately 75 percent of the unsheltered homeless have substance-abuse disorders and 78 percent have mental-health disorders. Many have both.
(Excerpt) Read more at quillette.com ...
This video came out few days ago and has gone viral. It’s about what it’s like to live in California:
That guy is hysterical.
Holy crap. Be sure to read the very last paragraph of that column.
You bring nothing to any discussion, worthless bitch. Instead of driving people away, when we need them more than ever, why don’t you encourage them? Eff’en loser.
$1.2 Billion divided by 72 works out to $16.7 Million per apartment, not $690,000.
Maths is hard.
“Meanwhile, an El Salvador-based company has come up with nifty $4,000 3D-printed houses that look like great places to live and can be put up in a single day.”
L.A.’s economic malfeasance aside, most homeless people are homeless because they’re crazy. Trying to put them into anything less than managed care is useless.
You're a racist!/sarc
“I’m writing this from California. I’m sure there are many Americans from outside this state—not to mention foreign readers—whose response to all of this is that we left-coast utopians are merely getting what we deserve. But remember, for better or worse, my state has a long history of exporting cultural and political trends to the rest of the world.”
Like that is supposed to make me think she regrets willingly supporting this crud for decades of her life? We want to build a wall around LA to keep the stupid from getting out.
Yes, this is the most unfortunate part of your story.
Awesome JP video.
I know if I owned a home worth several hundreds of thousands that I would love having drug addicts and criminals in my neighborhood.
Elections have consequences...
You bring nothing to any discussion, worthless bitch. Instead of driving people away, when we need them more than ever, why don’t you encourage them? Eff’en loser.
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He spams and trolls many threads but is still here for paying members to deal with and I wonder why?
I read the full article. Gil Garcetti has been a disastrous mayor, and the homeless population in LA went from 23,000 to 41,000 in 3 years. IMPORTANT: Idiot Plugs Biden has said he would like Garcetti to be his Secretary of HUD. UnbelievAble stupidity.....
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