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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Change the zoning regs in areas , give the homeless a camper..less than $30,00 for sure
Living on a river or lake - prime property is always preferable.
The homeless - a product of stupid 'white liberal 'elites' only want the best... just like their benefactors. And us? We'll be the people asked to pay for their camps to be moved to upscale locations.
130K?? What a frickin’ con and a thieves scam. But keep taking it...
In 2 weeks, I’ll be listing one of my flips for $900,000 in Littleton, CO for
5,000 Sq ft of STUNNING! Any bureaucrat who pays or charges $130,000 for 200 Sq ft box, should be seriously beaten.
130,000 for a shed? Wonder if it is equipped with a toilet, or if the streets are the toilet
The home my parents built in the Bay Area for $32,000 in 1966 just recently sold for $1.2M. Unbelievable.
Pretty big change. Literally.
“Sometimes the answers to our questions are found merely in the asking of them.”
Well put.
They can go back to living in a box on the sidewalk.
This is an excellent article on the homeless industrial complex. Homelessness is a business now - there’s money to be made in it.
https://californiapolicycenter.org/americas-homeless-industrial-complex-causes-solutions/
The land is expensive. Crap shacks in my metro area of Illinois that go for $100K go for ~$1M in California...
And for a pretty standard 3 bedroom starter home with a garage. Under $200K in most parts of the country for a house that age. No additions on it either.
Teach the able bodied homeless to help build the homes and it would be better.
It's in California so the ridiculous regulations inflate the price by 200%. In fact, because California is so huge their ridiculous regulations make everything in America cost at least 150% more than it should.
On a side note, I bought a new table and inside the drawer was a warning that the state of california had determined that wood causes cancer. I wondered how much that stupid label cost the builder.
I used to work for S8 back in the nineties. That is when they started programs to give bums a “magic carpet ride” to the suburbs.
Oddly enough, I noticed the maps drawn up showing the suburbs these undesireables would be launched into did NOT include the cushy, suburban areas the S8 ADMINISTRATORS lived in. When I pointed this out, it was the beginning of the end for me.
The complaints from hard working suburban neighbors started to roll in...dirty diapers flung out the windows, condoms and drug paraphenalia in the driveway, loud music and parties, illegal activity and fights. They were shocked to know none of these activities would get the recipients thrown off the program.
They tended to move back to the hood due to transportation issues/friends and family.
Have they considered buying single wide mobile homes at a fraction of the cost?
Rental space costs for them is getting out of hand.
One of those Chedarshed 16 x 14 sheds is $7253 at Lowe's. It looks nice... a porch in the front.
No I meant what I said. It wouldn’t be a mansion or anywhere near civilization but it would be a house!
I had a friend, who recently died, that lived in a camper...in an rv park for about 10 years. I have a cousin in Oklahoma whose son and his wife are living in their camper on her property. I would bet neither of those campers cost more than $10k...knowing the incomes of the people that bought them.
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