Los Angeles Opens Up $165 Million Luxury Apartment for Homeless People

The Daily Fetched ^ | 10 June 2024 | Jason Walsh

[Sam77]

A luxury apartment building funded by the American taxpayer is set to open in Los Angeles‘s Skid Row for homeless people.

The 19-story building, with 278 units, will open within weeks. According to The Times, the building is meant to be a “self-contained environment that will insulate its formerly homeless residents from the squalor and hopelessness around them.”

[dfwgator]

This will not end well.

[17th Miss Regt]

According to The Times, the building is meant to be a “self-contained environment that will insulate its formerly homeless residents from the squalor and hopelessness around them.”

They will bring the squalor and hopelessness into their apartments - in about one week.

[silverleaf]

Sounds like a gilded ghetto

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Free Stuff Piñata Estates. Socialist freeloaders love it. Sure beats working for a living.

[Leaning Right]

Will the homeless be given hammers to help destroy the building? Or will they have to go out and steal their own hammers? The article doesn’t say.

[SMARTY]

A separate police ‘task force’ will be necessary to maintain order in THAT environment

[Redleg Duke]

And the new tenants will bring the squalor and hopelessness in with them.

[fwdude]

Call me crazy, but I wouldn’t recommend high rise living quarters for people who are habitually on drugs.

[Bon of Babble]

Unless drug addiction and mental illness are addressed in this population FIRST, they will utterly destroy each and every apartment in this building in short order.

[Leaning Right]

> And the new tenants will bring the squalor and hopelessness in with them. <

I image they’ll be bringing a lot of permanent “guests” as well. Family members, drinking buddies, etc. That’s going to be one hopping place.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Brand spanking new!

In a few short years...

"Oh, when will they ever learn?"

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is the same “great idea” the old Soviet Union had. It didn’t work there either.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

See: Cabrini Green.

[Jonty30]

That sounds like a lot of gold leaf that can be scraped off the chandeliers and sold for profit.

[econjack]

The gov’t has no business being in the apartment business. Public housing has always been a failure.

[T.B. Yoits]

This is about money laundering. An agent for an "overseas" investment firm finances the building and later goes to a bank for a loan against that building.

Rinse and repeat.

[BBQToadRibs2]

That will be one sweet ass world class drug den. No doubt Hunter will swing by.

[FlingWingFlyer]

You can bet the Mexican drug cartels are getting ready to set up their offices there.

[unread]

Well, I guess it'll make life a little easier for the dope pushers.
Maybe the city will give them a storefront on the first floor.. :)