Posted on 04/29/2023 5:37:19 PM PDT by lowbridge
The San Diego Housing Commission is under fire over plans to purchase and convert three hotels into housing for the homeless that comes with a price tag of $400,000 per room.
Critics of the plan argue its a waste of taxpayer money that fails to address the root causes of homelessness.
“California’s got about a third of the homeless of the entire country. And we keep just throwing more and more dollars at this problem without really getting to the root cause of mental health or alcohol abuse or drug abuse,” San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said on “Fox & Friends” Friday.
“Spending all this $157 million on more rooms doing the same thing and it’s causing the same problem, that is fruitless,” he added.
The commission last week voted unanimously to move forward with the proposal to buy three Extended Stay America Hotels with 412 apartment-style units for $157.8 million, or roughly $383,192 per unit, according to local reports.
In San Diego County, there were an estimated 8,500 homeless people in 2022 — up an alarming 10% since 2022, according to data from the Regional Task Force on Homelessness.
While San Diego and other California cities attempt to grapple with the crisis, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last month that he plans to spend $30 million to build 1,200 tiny homes to shelter a tiny fraction of the roughly 170,000 people homeless in the Golden State.
San Diego is set to receive about 150 of the homes, Fox News reported.
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Ha! And every one of those poor souls was born and reared right here in the good old USA. Idiots!
You don’t expect the current owners to sell for a loss, do you?
ironic laundering
Sounds about right for a libtard ‘solution’
Has the commission determined yearly maintenance costs? $157 million is just the start. Insane.
What a deal !!!!!
And I bet that doesn’t even count room service.
San diego has most of the elected are dems
don’t forget the 100’s of millions of illegals swamping areas like san diego, LA, portland, etc. They gotta go somewhere.
Young people have no idea what they will experience during their lives.
And the GRIFT goes on
the GRIFT goes on
La da da da de
the GRIFT goes on.
Falls UNDER the same rules:
DO NOT FEED THE FERAL CATS
ALL YOU GET IS MORE FERAL CATS
Denver did the same. Bad idea
They did something similar in San Francisco a few years ago, moving homeless into downtown hotels. Recent news about inspections shows that the hotel rooms were trashed, with much repair necessary. And half the hotel rooms were abandoned and vacant - no explanation from SF authorities as to why tax dollars are being wasted on hotel rooms that the homeless abandoned.
A lot of the homeless prefer to live on the street where they can do what they want without having any responsibility.
It’s amazing how generous and magnanimous you can be with other peoples money.
For 400K I’d sell them this place on 5 acres
“...the hotel rooms were trashed, with much repair necessary.”
A half century ago, there were places where crazy people were housed and fed under tight controls. If they tried to damage their living spaces, they were restrained. These places were called asylums or mental hospitals. This concept of mental health treatment was abandoned and now the crazies are free to roam the streets.
Of course the abandonment of asylums might be considered a good thing today. People who question drag shows for children, the surgical mutilation of children or if men can become women are openly called crazy or at least dangerous by the powers that be.
The big brained politicians should use these items for their $400,000 hotel room for derelicts....(Taxpayers have no say unless they somehow do not vote Dem again next time).
Only the Pentagon Could Spend $640 on a Toilet Seat
The Nation
April 11, 2016
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Dec 7, 1998 — Ever since the Defense Department procurement scandals of the 1980s, the $600 hammer has been held up as an icon of Pentagon incompetence.
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