Posted on 04/21/2024 3:00:57 PM PDT by grundle
Santa Monica city officials last week approved a multimillion-dollar apartment unit for the homeless just days after the release of an audit which found California could not account for the $24 billion it spent on the state’s burgeoning homeless crisis.
The 122-unit building for the homeless will include a mix of studio, one, two and three-bedroom apartments, along with ground floor retail and residential and commercial parking spaces.
A design concept available on the city's website shows that the multi-apartment unit will cost more than $123 million, for a cost of just over $1 million each for the 122 apartments. A second design concept would have cost even more, north of $200 million for 196 units.
"Moving forward in bringing affordable and permanent supportive housing to city-owned land is a key step in our strategy to fulfill our Housing Element requirements," Mayor Phil Brock said. "I look forward to the next steps and ultimately seeing families move into these new homes and thrive."
The measure was approved days after the release of an audit which indicated the state had spent around $24 billion between 2018 and 2023 to tackle homelessness – but did not consistently track whether the huge outlay of public money did anything to actually improve the problem.
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Good god. They’re not even trying to hide the grift anymore.
> along with ground floor retail <
Oh, wow. How long before those stores are stripped bare by resident shoplifters? I’d give it a day.
I could see those being reasonable prices.....
If they were building them on Malibu Beach or Rodeo Drive.
I can’t come up with half that amount to buy a house.
A friend of mine, long deceased, owned a motel in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. He got a lot of French Canadian families. He said the ideal room would be welded stainless steel with a floor drain so he could just go in with a hose to clean it up when the party left.
“They’re not even trying to hide the grift anymore.
Grift or graft? I would call it “graft”. No accounting for previous $$$ allocated for this? Shameful and incredible but totally believable.
I moved to Santa Monica in 1957 from upstate NY and it was a real nice place - my idea of what I expected of CA. Safe to go downtown after work, shop, have dinner, go to a movie, catch a bus to your apartment...
I moved to Sacramento a year later but in later years, it wouldn’t have been safe to even be in the downtown area of Santa Monica. Probably the same for Sacramento - loved that city - walked to work in downtown every day through Capitol Park but it also changed in later years. I guess given enough time (or not), everything changes...
Since when do FAMILIES qualify as homeless? I don’t see any FAMILIES featured on the news - just druggies - be they male or female but kids? Nope....I guess they are calling “illegals” families but it wouldn’t do to say they are building housing for “illegals”...so sue me!
LOL, those Quebec dudes wearing their “grape smugglers” on the beach!
#7 It was all the maple syrup they left all over the place that made it a sticky situation....
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