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50,000 new housing vouchers for California and they want to super-size and increase the amount of each of the housing vouchers.
This tsunami of multi-thousand a month housing vouchers falling from the sky all over California will just drive up rents even more as vacancy rates plummet.
Additionally, families come first with a majority of these schemes so many will be families moving from a shelter into a nice home and pay $100 or less for it out of their welfare checks for a near million dollar home.
The elderly, disabled, young adults who aged out of the system will still be on the street and the more people will become homeless as vouchers will drive down vacancy rates and landlords will raise the rents because of the lower vacancy rates.
This will just create a rush of demand chasing hardly any supply and the rents will skyrocket even more. California officials want to increase the dollar amount for housing vouchers to match the rents.
Many of these vouchers will be for families, and in Los Angeles there are fewer then 200 homes that are renting for less than $3,000 a month for a 3 bedroom which is what many families are approved for.
California officials want 50,000 new housing vouchers for California but they want to spread the welfare around and are begging for 250,000 new housing vouchers for other states for a total of 300,000 new housing vouchers.
The problem is when I looked it up and in Los Angeles there is only about 200 units going for less than $3,000 a month that are 3 bedrooms or more.
not sure what the solution is, but it certainly is not "free" vouchers to people who cant pay their own way, when you have a housing shortage to begin with
do the math
3000 (average monthly rent) x 50000 x 12(months in a year) = 1.8 billion
now that is just the housing vouchers
now add all the other entitlements....and they blew the surplus they had and now the new Governor is running what could be a deficit, and well over a trillion dollars (nearly 2 trillion) of debt (nicknamed California's "wall of debt")…..nearly 1 trillion is needed just for infrastructure (roads, water, etc)
Send those homeless back to their hometowns in red states. This is really their problem.
According to a report from the Seattle Times, most homeless are locals down on their luck, not transplants. The study said around 86% were local and another 6% were from elsewhere in the state - only around 8% were from out of state or illegal aliens. If these stats are anywhere close to those in CA, the great majority of the homeless are from the blue state of CA or illegals.
According to a report from the Seattle Times, most homeless are locals down on their luck, not transplants. The study said around 86% were local and another 6% were from elsewhere in the state - only around 8% were from out of state or illegal aliens. If these stats are anywhere close to those in CA, the great majority of the homeless are from the blue state of CA or illegals.
They've been priced out of their beloved hometowns and states, but don't want to give up what they thought was their birthright, as they were growing up. The simple life to which they became accustomed, is now too expensive. More affluent people from other regions have displaced them, which is a sad fact of our current times.
California has done much to create their own problems, let them solve their own problems.
You are very correct that California is mainly the cause of most, if not all of her problems... But, at least if you're illegally in the Country, California will give you free college and medical/dental care that her own residents do not qualify for.
Don't worry... Be happy, cuz your State taxes are going to get a lot higher in the next year!!
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