Posted on 12/20/2020 7:47:11 AM PST by rktman
When, last week, we wrote about 56% of Americans stating they would be OK living in a "tiny home", this isn't what we had in mind.
But apparently, in L.A., being homeless has its perks. What better way for California to help get its budget crisis under control than to pay for minimalist structures, known as “tiny homes”, to the total cost of $130,000 each, for its homeless. What was once an idea to house the homeless in "emergency shelters" has now - as things do in liberal states - turned into "expensive development projects with access roads, underground utilities and concrete foundations," according to the LA Times.
LA has opened one "village" and has planned five more. Mayor Eric Garcetti has championed the program as a way for the city to stop neglecting its homeless - an issue that was brought up in a recent federal lawsuit against the city.
The total cost of the first village is now about $5.2 million. Additional projects that are set to open in April are "projected" to cost less, but we'll believe it when we see it. The city says for those villages, it expects to spend "at least $82,000 per shelter". The contract attracted only one bid, which came in more than $400,000 over expectations.
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One can build an entire tiny home for under $35k.
I built a 8X10 shed in my yard for about $1000
The homeless largely are comprised of mentally ill that liberals let out of institutions, drug addicted, ,or mentally ill self medicating with illegal drugs and criminals Hal’s with a handful of normal people really down on luck. I really don’t think there are many sane folks in California anymore and fewer each day.
Every single endeavor involving the transfer of wealth from those who earned it to those who didn’t, from a minimum basic income or homes given to people or full blown socialism, all the way down to giving a dollar to a panhandler comes to rest on the same rocky shoal:
Ingratitude and greed.
For those who didn’t earn it, it will never, ever be enough.
Never.
You may well be correct...but not all building codes are the same...and I’d bet Calif mandates a huge amount of virtue signalling additions that cost a lot of money and provide little value. I know they are cutting off nat gas and mandating electric heat among other things.
Move in some used single wides at a cost of less than 50K each.
Apparently the “homeless” don’t need a home that bad and the RAT politicians are making out like a bandit.
The structure is peanuts. Here’s where it goes:
* Roads
* Land
* Sewers
* Water
* Internet & Cable TV
* Greasing city hall palms
* Fees & permits
It’s gotta be the cost of all those Prop65 warning labels. Do the labels have to have Prop65 labels on them?
I have a double wide on a permanent foundation 1350 sq ft for $85,000. Refrig/stove/dish washer included. 3 br 2 ba
five years should read FIVE MONTHS
That was interesting, thank you.
“Why not just build open bay barracks for the homeless! They worked for military!”
Great idea,include inspection. Some of my best memories came from barracks living. Smart asses quickly got sorted out.
I have a distant relative, a ‘name’ actress, you may have seen her in some commercials, works mostly out of Hollywood.
She took a part on Broadway, needed a long term place to stay.
The best she could find was about 100 sq. ft., bed, sink, toilet, and no shower. Still $$$.
She found a folding shower with hoses to the sink a pumped drain and collapsed it slides under the bed!
Not unusual in the big cities.
if tiny homes were desireable and great, the rich and politicians would be flocking to live in the,
Leave it to CA.
Our Midwest city has a charity that put together 2 tiny home villages for qualified long-term homeless people with the cost of each unit (NOT a trailer) under $40 K.
when you realize their goal isnt to fix problems, you get why they do what they do
their goals are to tax you more, waste money on legacy crap, and feel good abput what they do
LA is a port city. It has a virtually unlimited supply of cheap shipping containers.
Any time the government is the customer, the price will be outrageous, sometimes due to corruption/graft, and someone’s due to vastly more at pecs paperwork and compliance costs.
A friend had a truss company. Bid trusses for a health care facility where the state was the building department. Lost his butt on all the extra work, SE stamp, etc. Next time one came along, bid at 3x as a polite form of no bid, got it anyway!
At pecs = specs. Stupid Android
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