The Los Angeles Homeless Containment Thread (Long Beach: city hall, hotel, houses)

[MKTwet]

The price of freedom.

[V8 Vega]

Santa Clarita police shot a knife weilding homeless man in a riverbed.

[wac_432]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

A homeless guy in downtown LA walked into a Target store and grabbed a 9" knife, stabbed a 9 year old boy and someone else and tried to stab the security guard.

25 year old woman.

Women and children are the prime targets of these zombies.

Who wants to bet me a dollar that he didn't have a long rap sheet, at least a dozen violent priors, many reduced by a judge so he didn't hit three strikes.

[beach43ofus]

The OP used the word "containment"

Should homeless people be allowed to live free amongst the masses?

Or, should there be "containment", & what does that look like?

Should they be allowed to live/camp in pubic places, close to residents?

imho, these are the 1st questions society must answer, but for some reason, are not.

[CA4Now]

Though few local officials want to point fingers, it’s an open secret that some politicians have little interest in taking on the hard and often unpopular work of solving homelessness. So they don’t — giving a smattering of truth to the conspiracy theory that the homeless people we see in progressive cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento aren’t from those places.

Most are, but some have shifted from parts of the Golden State where enforcement and a lack of services are the answer to poverty and misery. That is unsustainable and unfair.

...Most egregious in that dysfunction is that, too often, cities and their counties aren’t working together.

That is a disaster because the money for social services such as mental health care goes to counties, while the money for shelters and housing often goes to the big cities. When the two don’t cooperate, people remain stuck on our sidewalks in a heartbreaking breakdown that wastes money and lives.

There has been little Newsom or anyone else could do to force partnership between cities and counties except ask nicely. And the way the funding was originally set up — with a final payment tied to hitting self-set goals — led some agencies to aim low in order to maximize their payouts.

The meeting Friday (11/18) is about a billion dollars in funding known as round three of the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Grant Program for the policy nerds among you. Newsom wants strings attached to that money now — though he doesn’t really have the legal power to do it, except by futzing with these action plans.

Specifically, Newsom wants cities and counties to commit to signing formal agreements with each other, laying out how they will play nice.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ess-whats-next

[V8 Vega]

Firefighters had to use a ladder truck to get a homeless bum stinking azz and his dog down from a bilboard scaffold in LA. He may have been living up there.

[CA4Now]

An article about the increasing difficulty of housing the homeless in Los Angeles, right next to an article about the cost to maintain the many multi-million dollar mansions. Something's really wrong here.

Southern California is one of the few markets in the country that regularly sees listings of $100 million or more...

“I’m numb to it now, but seeing the opulence and insane wealth we’re surrounded by in this city is crazy,” said Kevin Stein, a district supervisor with L.A. Elite Window Cleaning, which cleans the windows of roughly 1,000 houses every year. Stein and his team often work for luxury clients. “It’s always shocking the upkeep and staffing required to clean these places.”

While small apartment jobs can cost just $250, glass-loaded mansions such as The One can cost roughly $10,000 to clean.

Jason Oppenheim, star of Netflix’s “Selling Sunset,” is currently listing a 20,000-square-foot mansion in Hollywood Hills for $40 million. He broke down the monthly expenses to keep the place looking pristine (each category is listed)....Total cost: $40,000 per month.

https://www.latimes.com/business/rea...ansions-market

[Suburban_Guy]

Billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars spent and absolutely nothing to show for it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vc6CHRrtH8&t=119s

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy

Billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars spent and absolutely nothing to show for it.

As posted above, 'Do better': California Gov. Newsom pauses $1 billion in homelessness spending
“At this pace, it would take decades to significantly curb homelessness in California — this approach is simply unacceptable,” the governor said in a news release:
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...essness-spend/

(And Nick Johnson, the guy responsible for all the YouTube videos that you post, wants people to donate to his channel.)

[V8 Vega]

Democrats politicians approach to solving homeless is to see how much taxpayers money they can supposedly throw at it and then say we spent this much
Meanwhile nothing happens..