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Old 10-26-2017, 10:09 PM
 
Location: So. Calif
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Los Angeles County is offering people subsidies to build separate living quarters on their property to house the homeless. I could not believe what I was reading. This is their solution....offer people money to house the homeless if they build like a "Mother in law" type house on their property.

What happened to building facilities for them? Who will be helped by this solution? Los Angeles County has rocks in their heads.

A gentleman just died in Lawndale, CA. Had been homeless for 30 yrs I hear? Was in the Daily Breeze. It's sad that he died but what can you do when they do not want help?
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Old 10-26-2017, 10:15 PM
 
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Los Angeles County is offering people subsidies to build separate living quarters on their property to house the homeless. I could not believe what I was reading. This is their solution....offer people money to house the homeless if they build like a "Mother in law" type house on their property.

What happened to building facilities for them? Who will be helped by this solution? Los Angeles County has rocks in their heads.

A gentleman just died in Lawndale, CA. Had been homeless for 30 yrs I hear? Was in the Daily Breeze. It's sad that he died but what can you do when they do not want help?
You can do what I do, which is yell loud and clear about the international bankers and what they've done to our country and by extension the world.
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Old 10-27-2017, 11:36 AM
 
Location: Downtown Los Angeles, CA
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My proposal, in laymans terms:

Redirect the expenses of LAPD handling these folk and build mass housing projects on cheap land in the dessert. Cart homeless there, deliver only on basic human needs, provide services to help able-bodies work themselves back into society, then if/once that happens require the individual to partially reimburse the institution for their stay. Look at it as a jail with a counselling program. The truly deranged stay and are quarantined indefinitely.

Bus services are cheap.
The jail can scale as needed due to the land around it.
The program partially pays for itself.
People have their streets back.
The homeless have help.
Everyone feels good.

Desperate times call for drastic measures. And we all know lip service doesn't shovel sh*t off our sidewalks.
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Old 10-27-2017, 12:59 PM
 
Location: Earth
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My proposal, in laymans terms:

Redirect the expenses of LAPD handling these folk and build mass housing projects on cheap land in the dessert. Cart homeless there, deliver only on basic human needs, provide services to help able-bodies work themselves back into society, then if/once that happens require the individual to partially reimburse the institution for their stay. Look at it as a jail with a counselling program. The truly deranged stay and are quarantined indefinitely.

Bus services are cheap.
The jail can scale as needed due to the land around it.
The program partially pays for itself.
People have their streets back.
The homeless have help.
Everyone feels good.

Desperate times call for drastic measures. And we all know lip service doesn't shovel sh*t off our sidewalks.
Sounds like a great idea.
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Old 10-27-2017, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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My proposal, in laymans terms:

Redirect the expenses of LAPD handling these folk and build mass housing projects on cheap land in the dessert. Cart homeless there, deliver only on basic human needs, provide services to help able-bodies work themselves back into society, then if/once that happens require the individual to partially reimburse the institution for their stay. Look at it as a jail with a counselling program. The truly deranged stay and are quarantined indefinitely.

Bus services are cheap.
The jail can scale as needed due to the land around it.
The program partially pays for itself.
People have their streets back.
The homeless have help.
Everyone feels good.

Desperate times call for drastic measures. And we all know lip service doesn't shovel sh*t off our sidewalks.
Good ideas but they make too much common sense for this city and state
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Old 10-27-2017, 04:51 PM
 
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Your are joking right?

Let normal people be the targets of the drug and mentally damaged people instead???????????????????

Fine people would be looking for a way to fix it and that includes putting some potentially dangerous people in a place where they can be secure, helped and watched.

Veterans are another story, as the Gov't only cares about them when they have a gun in their hands and are out of the US.
Well go figure. I see where you're coming from. What we need to do is get them out of this screwed up society. Problem is there aren't a lot of fine people in it now is there?
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Old 10-27-2017, 05:05 PM
 
Location: Ca expat loving Idaho
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Well go figure. I see where you're coming from. What we need to do is get them out of this screwed up society. Problem is there aren't a lot of fine people in it now is there?
Definitely not many fine people left in LA. They've been forced out. The lunatics are running the asylum
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Old 10-27-2017, 05:37 PM
 
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Definitely not many fine people left in LA. They've been forced out. The lunatics are running the asylum
Starting right at the top.
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Old 10-27-2017, 05:39 PM
 
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Well go figure. I see where you're coming from. What we need to do is get them out of this screwed up society. Problem is there aren't a lot of fine people in it now is there?
Getting them out, helping them yes, but that isn't what the politician and their feel good supporters (You mentioned them above) want and ... most of the homeless do not want it either, just the ones who are actually looking for work and trying to not be homeless.
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Old 10-27-2017, 07:14 PM
 
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We already have the crazy homeless literally killing innocent people. So I'm not sure what the city is waiting for to take real action. I guess more people need to be killed?

Just one example from last year below. The story hardly got any press really. Of course if it was the other way around there would be protests etc. No doubt this guy was showing signs of being mentally ill and dangerous but everyone just looked the other way , including the police because "it's a homeless person what can we do..."
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A 46-year-old homeless man will face a murder charge after an elderly man he allegedly beat died on Monday, police said.The attack took place just before 3:30 p.m. on April 2 near 8th Street and Grand Avenue downtown. The suspect, LaFawn Parker, approached the older man, Dong Lee on a sidewalk and punched him several times, Los Angeles police Officer Liliana Preciado said. A security guard from a nearby Whole Foods grocery store who witnessed the beating, pepper sprayed Parker and held him down until police arrived.

85-year-old man brutally beaten in downtown attack dies - LA Times
Sad but very true. And we are proposing building more services for them which will just free up the streets for more to come in. We wouldn't need to spend public money to build more homeless services if we pealed back some of the overregulation that stops free market builders from coming in and building more general population housing.

People complain about all the housing being built for the wealthy, but with the giant hurdles and costs developers face, what incentive do they have to build moderate priced housing?
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