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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Here’s an idea: get a f’ing job or go live in the rehab center or the nuthouse.
Well i lived in a studio apt and I hated it.
At least they have Google Nest thermostats.
A lot of us have left or are leaving.
The AMERICAN way of life? No thank you.
My unit lived in a Quonset hut in Korea. It housed about thirty, not including the enclosed cadre room for an NCO. I didn’t hear any complaints (well, a few about other things).
I'd say 3.
As in months.
In the Navy years my ex and I lived in half a single wide outside the main gate in Mayport FL until we found a house for $75/mth. We didn’t like the half trailer much.
Who maintains them? Fixes broken plumbing, broken walls, burnt floors, graffiti, cleans crap off the walls, changes light bulbs?
I remember seeing the ‘pods’. Coming soon to a town near you. Unless you keep up with your prepper skills that is. :-)
We lived in one on Guam in the late 40’s. My mom said I would wait for a gecko to show up on the screen over my crib before I’d go to sleep. Too bad I have no memory of the time there.
One could repurpose a shipping container for a lot less.
Yeah, no place to put things away no place to have your living activities, course I guess the real thing here is they are building these at ridiculous expense for homeless people.
Build those things, get government to up taxes and make the working class pay for it or demand money from the Feds...same ol same ol dem policies I guess.
And then there is the problems of the homeless people deciding heck, why should i be homeless in another state when I can go to California and get me one of them little houses.
Additionally there are other factors in place— such as the placement/locating of these “mobile” homes, involving the fakery, manipulation of zoning and taxing of surrounding domiciles of real working homeowners/landlords. Similar to the “invasion” of the section 8 apartments which obamaumao forced onto communities as a requirement for new developments in the suburbs— Trump shut this down, as ruining the life investments of people who got away to the suburbs to a starter or a dream home, and then horrified to find out mega apt. blocks right inside the developments, “rented” out to Section 8 urban street goons— the very people/crime/dope they were trying to get away from.
Obamaumao did that. And the “homeless” do- good for themselvers— utilized this tweak of Section 8 to force zoning changes and “cutouts” in ex-urban areas.
That was a Paul Joseph Watson video: Pod people
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