The Los Angeles Homeless Containment Thread (San Francisco, Beverly Hills: renaissance, appointed, apartments)
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Part 2. He exposes the facts about prop 47 and other laws and bills.
Robert Watkins, IV, MD, discusses the homeless, drug, and crime crisis that has taken over his neighborhood in Los Angeles. This episode focuses on what his neighborhood has done and what laws were passed that contributed to the current situation.
Folks you will learn a lot from this video and what you see in LA and how it grew to the level it is today is revealed in this video. Especially how the 19% of the homeless in LA are from other states. Sad freaking story how this came about.
It also exposes the low life lies perpetuated by the "homeless" advocates to suppress the actual data surrounding the drug addiction and mental health issues.
Thankfully to this guy writing letters to the LA Times, it prompted them to do their own survey. The LA Times did their survey and put out an article stating that 67% not 29% of the homeless have drug and or mental health issues. Not only this the LA Times reported a UCLA study that showed 75% have a substance abuse problem and 78% have a mental health problem.
So clearly it's been under reported. How do you expect society to address this problem unless we know the truth or what we're dealing with.
After the LA Times reports, Council Member Mike Bonin in West LA, still has not acknowledged the drugs and crime issue or the mental health issues....sadly he's still deluding people by saying its a house crisis issue. First step in resolving this issue is acknowledging the truth.
LOL he marched on Garcetti's lawn and even though the turnout was dismal he made great contacts.
The most spot on thing he's states in this video is this:
The Double H Bond raised 1.2 Billion dollars...that's what we agreed to pay. They are building studio apartments for a minimum of $600K each. Well 1.2 Billion/600K = 2,000 studio apartments. There is 60K homeless in LA and we just built 2,000 studio apartment. This does not add up nor is it cost effective. Yet the LA Times reported that 40% of the 1.2 Billion dollars is being used for "soft costs", not to build the studios.
Which brings him to this question. When did we decide as a society, that just because you choose to live in an area that you can't afford...allows you to live there? And that other people are obligated to build you shelter to live there? He would like to live in Beverly Hills but he can't afford it...so should he just show up there with a tent and camp out for a few weeks...does this give him the right to live there? And that the people who currently live there must build him a place to live? That's certainly a crazy principle don't you think?
What I learned from the videos I posted about AB1197 is the following.
AB 1197 is a bill that allows the city of LA to build permanent supportive housing,bridge housing and shelters with low barrier status. What does low barrier mean? It means that there's no restriction on drug use, and the residents can come and go at any hour of the day. This is different from most shelters that are closed between 10:00 PM and 6:00 AM.
The low barrier allows these residents to go out at all early hours of the morning to shoot up and come back and crash all day.
These low barrier shelter zones are mixed use or non-residential, multi-family uses. This means if there is a mixed use business/apartment in your neighborhood the city of LA can build a low barrier shelter with no environmental reviews. This means they don't have to look at traffic, they don't have to look at the neighborhood, they don't have to look at anything to build them...and they can build it right now. This is what you guys allowed to pass.
Right now the shelter occupancy in LA for last quarter and last year was 74.5%. Right now there are not enough shelters to house ever single homeless person in LA....yet the shelters in place now are not even full. You have a 25% vacancy average every night. That's pretty crazy! Thus how can the folks who allowed the passage of AB 1197 know that this is going to solve the homeless issue when there are empty beds right now?
If LA does not force the homeless into those 25% empty shelter beds, and put in rules where they are not allowed to come and go as they please throughout the night to do drugs...which is why they won't go into these shelters...this has got to change.
Now you hear Newsom, Garcetti and Bonin saying we must build these shelters, yet the homeless are not filling all the beds in homeless shelters now, this just does not add up. The money does not add up, the rules don't add up, they don't have to go to these shelters and they are not going now as seen in the street videos I posted earlier.
All of this needs to change. It's going to take more than what the people of LA are being offered right now.
In conclusion LA has a natural disaster on its hands that needs to be dealt with immediately...as if a natural disaster just ripped through LA and now 60K people have been displaced. Then add on that 75% of these 60K are on drugs and 78% of these 60K have a serious mental illnesses problem, tack on increased disease rates we have not seen in years such as typhus and diseases that were once irradiated now coming back, trash all over the streets, drug addicts and drug dealers are taking over neighborhoods, leaders calling it a housing crisis with dumb solutions to build low barrier shelters by raising more taxes all the while ignoring the drugs, crime and mental illness that LA is living with = a fundamental crisis that needs to be dealt with now.
A better plan needs to be hammered out.
We should stare with the following:
First thing, is we revise the Lanternman-Petris Act.
Second thing is we expand conservatorships.
Third thing is we create some sort of facilities or focal areas of wraparound services for the chronically mentally ill.
Fourthly, we start enforcing drug laws and helping motivate drug addicts to get better.
Robert Watkins, IV, MD, discusses the homeless, drug, and crime crisis that has taken over his neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Interesting that Watkins appears to know so much about the homeless, given that he's a spine surgeon (who treats the L.A. Dodgers, Rams, and Clippers).
In conclusion LA has a natural disaster on its hands that needs to be dealt with immediately...
L.A. has had this disaster on its hands for years. It's been a long time coming, so it's doubtful that anyone can do anything immediately. (In fact, Peter Lynn, the head of L.A.'s top homeless agency, just quit after five years on the job.)
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Originally Posted by Matadora
First thing, is we revise the Lanternman-Petris Act.
Second thing is we expand conservatorships.
Third thing is we create some sort of facilities or focal areas of wraparound services for the chronically mentally ill.
Fourthly, we start enforcing drug laws and helping motivate drug addicts to get better.
A HUGE task. And one that would take an incredible effort by many politicians, agencies, and medical teams.
This article is from 32 years ago. It describes the intention of Lanterman-Petris, as well as its faults.
"The bill provided for “state-of-the-art” deinstitutionalized treatment of mental illness; it fit Reagan’s mandate to “cut, squeeze and trim” government expenditures. California would get out of the business of providing direct services to mental patients who would no longer be housed in state institutions. The liberal reformers had traded institutional care for advanced services in the community.
What the reformers didn’t know--or didn’t understand at the time--was that neither local governments nor private agencies would provide sufficient community services. That is where Lanterman-Petris-Short truly failed.
One mental health professional who helped draft and move the original legislation said, “In our zeal to move people out of very restrictive, very inhumane places, we forgot that there were a whole variety of supports that were being provided (by institutions) and we neglected to find adequate ways of replicating them . . . "
Interesting that Watkins appears to know so much about the homeless, given that he's a spine surgeon (who treats the L.A. Dodgers, Rams, and Clippers).
It's not interesting if you watch the videos and learn how he become so knowledgeable.
He's a concerned citizen who had to take matters into his own hands and find out all that he could to protect his family and neighborhood.
Intelligent results driven folks don't sit around and wait for things to just magically fix themselves, they instead get involved and find out the facts so that they know how to work towards a resolution.
If you watch the videos you will learn how he got involved, networked with neighbors, met with LAPD, went to council meetings and was able to educate himself on all that he learned.
Watch this entire video and try telling us again that the nearby businesses and non-homeless are responsible for what you see here. If you don't want to watch the entire thing at least skip to 10:45. This guy makes these videos to educate folks like you.
Now do you understand why the rat population is exploding in LA or how the Typhus outbreak occurred?
thanks for the video. very enlightening to people in Sacramento and on boats who have no idea what's going on in LA and believe whatever Garcetti spews out.
What I noticed is that was a video of one side of a bridge. I counted 4 homeless and one of them might have been dead. They were all mentally ill. There was piles of garbage with bio hazard and cans of gas and batteries and 2 obviously stolen bikes. There was a full on trash truck there to be filled with 4 peoples worth of accumulated trash and waste. Can you imagine what state LA is in if that's just one bridge??? And the minute it was cleared out the homeless just started refilling it.
ps I hope that guy collecting shopping carts hosed them down good before putting them back in the grocery stores.
L.A. has had this disaster on its hands for years. It's been a long time coming, so it's doubtful that anyone can do anything immediately. (In fact, Peter Lynn, the head of L.A.'s top homeless agency, just quit after five years on the job.)
It takes getting the right people in place to take on such a task and it takes pubic outcries that they are not going to allow this situation to continue as is.
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First thing, is we revise the Lanternman-Petris Act.
Second thing is we expand conservatorships.
Third thing is we create some sort of facilities or focal areas of wraparound services for the chronically mentally ill.
Fourthly, we start enforcing drug laws and helping motivate drug addicts to get better.
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Originally Posted by CA4Now
A HUGE task. And one that would take an incredible effort by many politicians, agencies, and medical teams.
Yep so the citizens of LA should start getting involved and, politicians better stop pretending it's a housing crisis and finally admit it's a drug/alcohol and mental health problem crisis.
And the public needs to wise up about the homeless advocates who have made homelessness into a profitable business. These businesses can only stay in business if there are homeless.
thanks for the video. very enlightening to people in Sacramento and on boats who have no idea what's going on in LA and believe whatever Garcetti spews out.
Yes these videos show exactly what's going on in LA. Every time I'm in LA, which is at least 6-7 times a year I see these camps everywhere.
I am amazed at all the garbage they accumulate and pile around themselves and have no issues living in it. Well I'm actually not surprised...drug/alcohol addicts and people with severe mental issues are oblivious to their living conditions.
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Originally Posted by Finper
What I noticed is that was a video of one side of a bridge. I counted 4 homeless and one of them might have been dead. They were all mentally ill. There was piles of garbage with bio hazard and cans of gas and batteries and 2 obviously stolen bikes. There was a full on trash truck there to be filled with 4 peoples worth of accumulated trash and waste. Can you imagine what state LA is in if that's just one bridge??? And the minute it was cleared out the homeless just started refilling it.
ps I hope that guy collecting shopping carts hosed them down good before putting them back in the grocery stores.
Yes he confirmed that the carts are taken to a place where they are decontaminated and if broken repaired before being taken back to where they belong. What was shocking was that man picks up 200-300 carts a day.
It's crazy the money being wasted simply because Garcetti, Newsom and Mike Bonin refuse to deal with the reality and spread the stupid myth that its a housing crisis that's responsible for this homeless disaster. What's even more astounding is that the homeless advocates gullibly believe this myth and perpetuate it. The myth makes zero sense if you actual stop and think about it.
Why are they refusing to acknowledge that this is a drug/alcohol and serious mental problem issue?
Why are they refusing to acknowledge that this is a drug/alcohol and serious mental problem issue?
Because it is a housing issue.
Since you love to rant, rant about why drug and alcohol and mental illness problems abound all across the nation ... in small towns and cities alike ... yet the homeless populations are only rampantly out of control in cities with high housing costs and where destruction of low cost housing has been extreme.
Go go go Madadora!
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