The sad part about this is it's only temporary. They'll soon be back living on the streets, having their belongings confiscated by police. Many of them are veterans. This is a policy choice. There are an estimated 1.5 million homeless people in the United States, potentially 40 million if Congress doesn't act. Giving housing to the homeless is cheaper than leaving them on the streets - Vox
A hotel that was recently ordered by DeStupido in NYC to house homeless discovered a couple meth labs in the rooms. What a shock.
Maybe they should move out of LA ? Who's fault is it there's a housing shortage in LA ? Not just LA but almost the entirety of Southern California. You could throw out free money to the houseless, but my guess is that would just make housing prices shoot up even more, in this region. When you have high prices being caused by a shortage, throwing more money at it isn't going to solve the problem, often. The limitation here is available building space in the desirable areas, and limited older already built cheaper housing stock, relative to the demand. (since new housing costs more money than old housing)
I would like to know where the average worker earns $18.22per hour,it's not in the USA. Prior to Covid !9 striking it was widely reported that 40% of U.S. WORKERS earned $15 an hour and LESS
Homelessness is a terrible problem that's growing. There's more and more homeless each day. These are people who have hit rock bottom. There's no fixing this! How is this a policy choice? We don't have the ching-ching $$$ to support ever-growing numbers of chronic homelessness.
Thats right. Money cant solve it. The solution is arrest and placement in solitary for 3 weeks. After a couple rough detoxes they clean up.
I never saw a homeless person in my state until the GOP came back into power in the 80s. Now we have so many. What did they change that gave my poor state homeless people? As well as our nation? I don't think its a coincidence.
I never saw a homeless person in my state until the GOP came back into power in the 80s. Now we have so many. What did they change that gave my poor state homeless people? As well as our nation? I don't think its a coincidence.
It was an unholy alliance of sorts and it didn't start in the 80's. Much of it started in the 70's and Hinkley getting off for shooting Reagan was the icing on the cake. Obviously I am talking about mental people. More left-wing advocates in the 70's started pushing hard regarding the rights of the mentally ill and after Reagan was shot, the bar for mental competency was lowered. The result was we started having a lot of people who should have been in institutions out on the streets incapable of taking care of themselves. It is still going on.
Yes you are right as I recall the mental health changes. But I also recall when our state and federal funded mental institutions lost federal funding. You know , govt is the problem con mantra.. So looks like the dems wanted the mentally I'll to live in society and the GOP cut funding . So mentally I'll had no place to live but on the streets. Yet quite a few homeless are victims of shipping living wage jobs to china. To max profits. Its a mixture if drug addicts, mentally I'll and victims of the greed of the elites. A low wage service sector economy has homelessness. How could it not? Its just basic math.
Actually, the shelters and food banks are mostly run by evangelical righties. CA is the Democrats petri dish and in spite of our taxes being the highest, we are the poverty capitol of the US. The gap between the rich and poor is huge and there are few middle class left. These righties don't even have a voice here. I do appreciate the effort and hope that these results show that giving money to the government to solve societies problems is a bad idea. Half of these leased rooms sat empty for a long time.
