Posted on 12/10/2022 10:12:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
For a while during the runup to the elections last month, it looked as if former Republican real estate developer Rick Caruso might pull off a miracle and defeat Democratic Congresswoman Karen Bass to become the next Mayor of Los Angeles. In the end, Bass squeaked out a six-point victory and will be inaugurated as the first female Mayor in the city’s history. Out on the campaign trail, Bass made a point of repeatedly promising to tackle the city’s endemic homelessness crisis. Not coincidentally, a large group of homeless people have been living in an encampment that activists set up right next to City Hall earlier this year, trying to draw the attention of the Mayor and the City Council to the problem. That wouldn’t make for very good visuals for the new Mayor’s inauguration, however, so the city leaped into action by packing them all up in buses on Thursday and shipping them elsewhere. (CBS Los Angeles)
One of Los Angeles Mayor-elect Karen Bass’s top priorities is tackling the city’s homeless crisis. Now, just days before her inauguration, a major encampment near L.A. City Hall is getting cleaned up.
According to the L.A. Times, unhoused residents who have been living near City Hall at 1st and Spring streets in downtown Los Angeles were loaded into vans Thursday.
They were reportedly sent to the L.A. Grand Hotel, a temporary homeless facility on Figueroa St.
If you’re worried about the welfare of the homeless who were moved out to someplace less visible, don’t be. Much as was done in New York City earlier this year, the departing homeless were sent to the L.A. Grand Hotel. If you visit the hotel’s website, you will see no mention of the fact that it is now being used as a homeless shelter. The site only notifies you that the hotel is undergoing renovations and will offer all new services and style “premiering in 2023.”
The homeless problem in California and particularly in Los Angeles is much like the weather, according to the wisdom of Mark Twain. Everyone talks about it, but nobody ever does anything about it. Bass promised to tackle the problem while campaigning, but we’ve yet to hear any sort of serious proposal as to how she plans to do it.
But that’s always been the problem in most of America’s larger cities. The only “solutions” that have been offered all seem to involve finding more “free” housing and shipping the homeless people out to stay there. As with so many aspects of modern governance, however, that’s a self-defeating approach. The more “free” services you establish for the homeless, the more homeless people you’re going to attract. (Also, nothing the government gives away is “free.” The taxpayers foot all of the bills.)
Unfortunately, the only potentially feasible approach to addressing the epidemic of homelessness would be both prohibitively expensive and politically unpopular among the liberals who make up the majority of most urban metropolitan areas. On an individual basis, authorities should be able to divide the homeless population up into four categories and deal with them according to their needs and conditions.
The people on the streets who are suffering from mental illness (a fair portion of the population) need to be put into mental hospitals. This needs to be done even if they try to refuse treatment, much like the approach currently being attempted in New York City. Those trapped in long-term drug and alcohol addiction should similarly be put in appropriate treatment centers. The hard-core criminals in their midst need to be locked up and put into rehabilitation programs. And those who are sane and well-behaved need to be put into employment development programs and temporary housing until they can successfully reenter society. That’s the end result for the previously listed groups as well, once they reach the point where they are able to do so.
Of course, liberals would set their hair on fire if the government just started carting people away in that fashion. And as I already mentioned, all of that hospitalization and specialized care would probably bankrupt the city in short order. So we’re unlikely to see any real solutions any time soon and all we’ll be getting is more lip service.
Liberals are hoping they all die by booze, drugs or crime.....That way, no money wasted ,except cremation
Sounds nice, but it's a lot to chew on. Mental hospitals should be the primary goal initially. These were proffered not as suggestions but as clear targets to be implemented.
They’re going to be more of it because they are enabling it.
Does the L.A. Grand Hotel feature concierge service? 'Cuz I (as a homeless person) ain't stayin' in no hotel without concierge service!
Regards,
I’ve been saying this for years. There is no lack of funding as billions are spent on homeless every year - enough to rent hotel rooms for all. Instead the money is sucked up by bureaucrats and the homeless are left to rot on the streets, thus justifying continued existence of the bureaucracy.
Track 5: Free motel room and a big bag of fentanyl.
[a major encampment near L.A. City Hall is getting cleaned up.]
They did one in “They Live”.............beat up the preacher, too
They Live - Camp cleared by riot police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzPzEaUEtDI
1) Surveillance Drones
2) People can instantly communicate
3) Printed media, Advertising, Television Media spread propaganda
4) Governmental edicts that are tyrannical
5) Money is basically “god” to most people
6) Jobs and promotions based on compliance
7) Christian preacher(s) persecuted under color of law
Good thing it’s just a movie and can’t come true in real life, eh?
Believe it or not a good portion of the homeless prefer the streets. No rules warm weather money to get high buddies
No
Many libs are not that rational, they truly see the drunks, drug addicts, bums and mental cases as ‘our best people’ who are confronting a brutal materialistic system and need to be elevated, praised, lauded and loved as symbols of those who ‘truly need help and compassion’. Many libs, especially women believe this and tenderly love these people. The people they hate, and would wish to see ‘dehoused’ so the ‘homeless could have ‘decent shelter’ are white , straight, middle class people, especially men.
One night. One gunship.
There. All fixed.
Mental hospitals are a furnace to throw money into. Money that can be used to bribe voters to support Democrats. That’s why they aren’t a viable solution. No one wants to pay for them.
I worked in mental health for years via the state system. They were cleaning out the hospitals over 25 years ago and closing them down while placing the chronically ill in group homes to show Sacramento the social workers and psychologists cured mental illness.
They shut down normalization units and placed them directly in to these small homes and the homes failed miserably.
They( California state or county) would have to hire staff, experienced staff and their bureaucracy is so heavy it’s doubtful this will go beyond their little bullet points and a singular model facility.
What it takes is a Constitutional Amendment that persons who are unwilling to work enough for self sustaining life needs and unwilling to abstain from debilitating addictions may be committed to long term compulsory residential facilities.
That’s they way it used to be before around 1965 when the ACLU decided it was better for the street crazies to be free, and it worked just fine. It was expensive to house the people so they didn’t get committed in great numbers. But, they were safe within the facility for the most part and were not eating feces and choking on vomit in an alley.
“… (a fair portion of the population) need to be put into mental hospitals. This needs to be done even if they try to refuse treatment, much like the approach currently being attempted in New York City. “
Think THINK! Where have I heard of this being done before…?
Liberals are hoping they all die by booze, drugs or crime.
After they take out an insurance policy out on them and then buy the stuff for them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union
https://www.gq.com/story/otto-warmbier-north-korea-american-hostage-true-story
That page seems a little outdated. It also says, “For shorter-term or immediate group or event needs for 2021, please contact our sister property Sheraton Universal Hotel or calling 818-980-1212.”
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