Posted on 06/09/2024 6:22:32 AM PDT by dynachrome
A massive residential tower in California will provide homeless people with a swanky new living space and luxury amenities, including a café, gym and TV lounge.
The 19-story tower, which is set to open this month in Los Angeles' Skid Row neighborhood, will provide sprawling views of downtown and the San Gabriel Mountains, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"We’re trying to make our little corner of the world look and feel a little better," Weingart Center Assn. Chief Executive and President Kevin Murray told the outlet.
Murray, who devised the plan, launched it in 2018 alongside the affordable housing developer Chelsea Investment Corp. The tower will become the largest permanent supportive housing project in Los Angeles.
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There were quite a few much smaller housing projects I saw when heading toward the LA Greyhound station over a decade ago.
How else can supplement their government freebies in order to get free CASH in order to buy booze and drugs ..then by scrapping copper.
How else can they supplement their government freebies in order to get free CASH in order to buy booze and drugs ..then by scrapping copper.
I suppose that it is too much to hope for that the first requirement of a homeless placement is that they are a USA citizen ...
Well ain’t that nice!
What really angers me is that they will continue to call the residents of this palace “homeless” even though they are living in luxury with all the perks imaginable while we can afford none of those things.
How soon before every single apartment in there is destroyed?
Are they allowed to bring in their alcohol and drugs? Many won’t go inside if they can’t have drugs or alcohol or are required to follow any rules, also they won’t go in if they have dogs.
There was a pastor on my local radio show (Los Angeles) - a huge homeless advocate who was put in charge of seven apartment buildings that were set aside for homeless - drugs and alcohol were allowed otherwise the homeless wouldn’t go inside.
The pastor said it didn’t take long for each building to become drug dens - each apartment was systematically destroyed - the homeless would be moved to another until there were none left. He said they broke out the sinks and toilets, tore up the floors and walls - to the point where each building was deemed beyond repair and condemned - there was no money left for repairs, and why bother? All now sit empty and condemned.
Very sad story - and same will happen here if mental illness and drug addiction are not addressed first.
It won’t take a year, might not even take a week before those apartments are systematically destroyed beyond repair and condemned b/c it’s too costly to repair them and why bother?
Unless drug addiction and mental illness is addressed before they’re allowed in, this is doomed to fail.
But failure has never stopped the lefties that run Los Angeles and California, they’ll ask for more $$, get it, and do it all over again exactly as before.
In California? I envy you your optimism.
—” sloshing around for this project. “
And sloshing it will be as plugged toilets overflow and quickly damage the floors below.
Rinse and repeat.
Elevators hate water and are not waterproof.
A long walk up.
The Chicago way was to set your unit on fire hoping to be resigned to one on a lower floor.
The gangs create their secret pathways by knocking holes in the party walls.
When the new tenants find their way to the roof, the rooftop HVAC units are used for target practice for the fun of watching the refrigerant blast out... FUN, FUN, FUN.
THE QUESTION IS NOT IF, BUT WHEN.
Don’t worry about that. Instead, let’s make sure those Texas buses are running and the GPS is programmed.
Reminds me of Ronan Point.
What Dem/commies got a cut of the funding for this? Follow the $$$$
One thing socialists do better than anybody is waste huge amounts of money on utopian schemes that are obviously doomed to failure before they’re even begun.
True, that. And the "lot of $$$" is mostly taxpayer dollars.
Details:
Against total revenue in 2022 - $1,275,107 - Weingart paid its CEO "SENATOR KEVIN MURRAY, RETIRED PRESIDENT & CEO" ( a Democrat, with a state retirement pension also ) over $400 thousand a year, and the higher ranking "leadership" gets from $250K down to $125K to distribute public money.This is another in the huge game of 501(c)3 "foundations" getting public monies and essentially turning them to quasi-private, while the players pay themselves very well indeed. In this case, unsurprisingly, California Democrats.The total paid to "Salaries, other compensation, employee benefits" for 2022 was $10,551,982 out of "contributions and grants" of $16,931,595. (Lines 8 and 15, Form 990)
Source: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e14c8b15405a84a69becd50/t/65dd258e5d22c41913349213/1708991886477/WCA+2021-22+Form+990+%28Public+Copy%29.pdf
"Related Companies and nonprofit the Weingart Center have scored $30 million in state-backed bonds to help build their planned transitional housing complex near Skid Row. The L.A. City Council voted to allow the California Municipal Finance Authority to issue the bonds, which will fund construction at 600 South San Pedro Street, according to Urbanize Los Angeles."
In "Related, Weingart Center score $30M in state-backed bonds for transitional housing," The Real Deal, 30 June 2023
Source: https://therealdeal.com/la/2023/06/30/related-weingart-center-score-30m-in-state-backed-bonds-for-transitional-housing/
"Housing nonprofit Weingart Center has closed a $27.3 million acquisition of a 76-unit assisted living facility in Cheviot Hills, with plans to turn the site into a homeless shelter, The Real Deal has learned. ...The seller is a Sacramento-based entity called Palms Affordable Housing. The limited partnership, managed by David Cardena, flipped the site after just months of ownership, records indicate. The company bought the asset in December from Florida firm Bridge Investment Group. According to a Los Angeles Housing Department report from last June, Weingart requested nearly $19.6 million in capital funding for the project. The financing will come through Project Homekey, a $1.4 billion state program that funds homeless housing conversions. ...The Los Angeles Housing Department recommended $20.5 million in match funding to cover cost increases for the project."
IN "Assisted living to homeless shelter: Weingart Center pays $27M for planned conversion," The Real Deal, Christian Bautistsa, 9 May 2024.
Source: https://therealdeal.com/la/2024/05/09/weingart-pays-27m-for-cheviot-hills-assisted-living-site/
Some enterprising producer should turn this place into a reality show. We can watch the whole arc, starting with big hopes and ending in filth and crime.
It could make a nice object lesson for the left to fail to learn from yet again.
Another example of leading the federal cow into the paddock and milking it for all it’s worth. Lefties love grants, subsidies, federal contracts, etc. as they can steal with impunity as long as the kickbacks go to the right people.
affordable housing developer Chelsea Investment Corp.
https://www.chelseainvestco.com/
The key words here are "largest" and "permanent." 19 stories of concentrated dysfunction. That's enough to poison the entire surrounding area.
Contrary to popular misconception, liberals sometimes do learn. Those who do, however, cease being liberals. The problem is that the modern democrat party is now an anti-rationalist cult intent on enforcing robotic obedience to a party line. The fact that the party line is a lie does not matter. The party machinery at all levels systematically weeds out truth tellers and straight thinkers, ensuring that only very stupid people, or cynical and dishonest people, can rise to positions of power. That is what rules wherever democrats achieve their goal of total one party dominance.
Who will this project benefit? The political drones in the social welfare bureaucracies who will see their empires and budgets expand; there is a lot of money to be made in the poverty pimp business. The politically connected developers and unions who will build this thing. The pols who depend on campaign contribution kickbacks and ongoing political support from all of the above. There are lots of pigs at the trough. California government is now a vast conspiracy against the public.
And Lysol and Narcan
Perhaps they can call it Cabeza Green.
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