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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Here’s a better article on the same subject:
https://therealdeal.com/la/2020/12/14/la-pays-big-bucks-to-build-tiny-homes-for-homeless/
That is very optimistic... they become “unlivable” within weeks. Basically they have to be cleaned out by the staff that takes care of them on almost a daily basis if any type of sanitary conditions are to be maintained.
And yes we used to have a bunch of cheap motels and hotels around here that housed the same group that did not require a lot of government cash to keep open. But the people that ran these places were all villainized and run out of town long ago.
My prediction is that the expensive tiny homes will be bulldozed within two years and replaced with exactly the same thing at even greater expense.
Little Pink Houses, for you and me.
Freeway runnin’ through the yard?
Aw man!
Reminds me of FUN times had by siblings and I every time our parents bought a new appliance and gave us the HUGE BOX to play with! We built houses and played until the box completely fell apart.
Good times!
Newsom and Garcetti should be forced to live in tiny houses. Suits the proportionate sizes of their brains.
Probably their illegal alien drivers on their knees polishing the chrome wheels of the bosses’ limos live in servants’ quarters that size. And glad they didn’t get deported for yet another day. With that long bus ride back across the border to the nearest US sanctuary city again.
Someone needs to invent a Rhoomba that will pick up turds, they can sell them to California to put in these tiny homes.
Send them all to Beverly Hills and force the liberals living there to take them in.
There's room for 13 families in their houses, alone.
Can buy a larger mobile home that is much more comfortable for waaaayyyy less.
Translation from Spanish of one: "California houses are so huge it's dreamlike. Back in Chihuahua we would have had 35 families in a place this size."
“IF BIDS COME IN ON BUDGET.” ROFLMAO! Government contractors have taken “overages” to an art form.
And they’re all made of ticky tacky....
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I had a tiny studio apartment in Denver when I was younger. I loved it!
Of course, I wasn't a schizophrenic drug addict, which is the real problem with L.A.'s homeless population.
Liberals could fuck up Polio.
I live in a high end 5th wheel in a rv park in Florida. I brought the basics with a few extras such as golf clubs. Everything I need is in the 5th wheel including granite counter tops and all wood is real, not veneer.
I enjoy it immensely.
Dr Zhivago was a documentary.
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