Karen Bass cuts ribbon on $72M homeless housing project in LA, costing taxpayers nearly $650K per unit

NY Post via MSN ^ | November 12, 2026 | Jamie Paige

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Mayor Karen Bass cut the ribbon Thursday on a taxpayer-funded homeless housing project at a converted North Hills Motel 6, boasting a staggering $72 million price tag — nearly $650,000 per unit.

The 111-unit property, located on Roscoe Boulevard near the 405 Freeway, is the latest example of Los Angeles’ costly effort to turn former motels and hotels into housing for the homeless.

Bass toured the newly renovated rooms Thursday morning, praising the accommodations and supportive services available to residents.

“The rooms are absolutely beautiful,” Bass told the crowd, pointing to the property’s communal spaces and counseling facilities as critical to helping residents rebuild their lives.

But the price of that transformation is raising familiar questions about how much taxpayers are spending to house people in a city struggling with a homelessness crisis and mounting budget pressures.

The former Motel 6 was purchased in 2023 for approximately $40 million, with another $32 million invested in converting the property into housing.

That works out to $648,649 per unit, based on 111 units, an eye-popping figure for a former budget motel.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; democratcorruption; democratincompetence; highspeedrail; homelessness; karenbass

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Just for the record, I looked for the article on the original cited source but could not locate it.

[jagusafr]

“The rooms are absolutely beautiful,” Bass told the crowd
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Not for long - just wait till the “homeless” take up residence.

[AuntB]

Lots of connected developers got this kind of operation going after the Almeda fire. If you were a lifetime welfare queen or illegal alien, you had it made and profited mightily from the fire. People like me, who never EVER used government, got wiped out and got nothing. For the first time in my life, I now go to the food bank.
My next door neighbors..a fat spinster and her welfare father just got a brand new beautiful mobile home. The decks and ramps had to cost $25,000. All free.

[fhayek]

Sure the project costs $650 thousand per unit . But the real beauty of this is that there will be continuing operating costs for meals, counseling, administration, etc. So if you work to provide these things for yourself, you, Mr Taxpayer, are a sap.

[Democrat = party of treason]

TOO FREAKING FUNNY!

[Vaduz]

Karen Bass cuts ribbon on $72M ILLEGAL homeless...............

[aquila48]

Maybe DeSantis is right about corporatism. You wonder what sweet deals the contractors got, and the kickbacks the politicos got in return.

[RightOnTheBorder]

All provided at inflated cost by friends of Karen Bass

[econjack]

Once again, the Democrat solution is to provide what looks like a solution but is nothing more than a policy that makes people more dependent on them for their existence.

Here’s an idea: Devised programs that get them a job so they no longer have to be homeless. I realize that makes them less dependent on you, but that seems like a better approach than initiating policies that keep people locked in their current circumstance.

[Sicon]

"Once again, the Democrat solution is to provide what looks like a solution but is nothing more than a policy that makes people more dependent on them for their existence."

AND makes them and their donors even wealthier, because you know the bulk of that $72 million isn't going into the building or the "homeless" who will inhabit it.

[eyeamok]

$50K will get you a Brand New 2 bedroom manugfactured house delivered to your lot.

I give it 60 days until the first fire in the building

[microgood]

I am sure Karen Bass’s offshore account is looking pretty good.

[dinodino]

Welcome to California. :/

[dinodino]

Of that $648k per unit, I’d imagine at least $500k went directly into the pockets of Bass and her cronies...

[lgjhn23]

‘California dreamin’ on such a winter’s day...” NOT!!!! LOL