The Los Angeles Homeless Containment Thread (underground, neighborhood, buy)

[CA4Now]

California isn't getting much help from the Oval Office in regard to homelessness.

Tommy Newman, director of public affairs for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, also blamed the federal government.

“Let’s be clear, between 1980 and 1990 federal rental assistance dropped by more than half — that has consequences to this day. Our recent Proposition HHH and Measure H ballot initiatives were, in part, an effort to backfill the loss of significant federal funding,” he said in a statement.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...702-story.html

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

California isn't getting much help from the Oval Office in regard to homelessness.

Tommy Newman, director of public affairs for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, also blamed the federal government.

“Let’s be clear, between 1980 and 1990 federal rental assistance dropped by more than half — that has consequences to this day. Our recent Proposition HHH and Measure H ballot initiatives were, in part, an effort to backfill the loss of significant federal funding,” he said in a statement.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...702-story.html

Speaking of the White House, homelessness, and LA homelessness: the Donald now suggests homelessness is a 'phenomenon that started two years ago' ... and he’s the one to fix it. Should be interesting, given his grasp of the situation ... given his grasp of, well, anything and everything, eh?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...84076.html?amp

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by MItoBH

Yeah. Most of them have 'checked out' on life in general and don't give a damn about the damage to the environment that they are causing. If they don't care about the eye sore they are to non-homeless people, you know they don't care about wildlife and the environment. To see the amount of trash they generate is amazing. When my mother came to visit me in July 2017, we were on Alvarado St about to get on the Hollywood freeway, north bound. The camps there and the trash made ME so embarrassed for my newly adopted city, and to have my mama from Michigan see that. She was so shocked and disturbed.

This is NOT normal! The homeless problem here is a complete travesty. There's no amount of money that can fix this if you don't have bare minimum safe shelter in place to make these people go into. Until a law is passed that sleeping in public is ILLEGAL, people will want to be homeless here in SoCal. We know this. If available, most homeless don't want shelter because there are RULES they must follow. But along with making it illegal to live on the public streets, AND have bare essentials shelter (not posh accommodations), those who want to remain "free" and homeless will have to go somewhere else!

Indeed, it is horribly embarrassing. When I had guests from Sacramento visit, the whole time we were walking from the car to the restaurant I remember praying, "Please no creepy street weirdos...please no creepy street weirdos...please no creepy street weirdos...please no creepy street weirdos..."

Of course, people who live in gated communities nowhere near L.A. expect us to tolerate all this -- don't ask me why...

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

LOL. The homeless “generate” nearly zero trash.

Yeah, just like typhus isn't caused by homeless encampments, the homeless are no more violent than normal people, most of the homeless are from here and all used to have homes here just a few years ago but suddenly went crazy and started living on the streets, etc.

It's getting a little old, dude. Seriously.

[Astral_Weeks]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Although we can't blame Kennedy, who was assassinated just after this was signed into law. Congress did not carry through with either funding or grants to states to establish local mental health centers.

Agreed. As the late great George Carlin said we only have ourselves to blame: "The public sucks."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxsQ7jJJcEA

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

Yeah, just like typhus isn't caused by homeless encampments, the homeless are no more violent than normal people, most of the homeless are from here and all used to have homes here just a few years ago but suddenly went crazy and started living on the streets, etc.

It's getting a little old, dude. Seriously.

The truth never gets old Exitus. Repetitious fearmongering mythologies, such as you delight in spinning purely for entertainment apparently, do though.

And Hot Wheels. Hot Wheels get old for most people when they grow up. Not everybody. But most move on.

[jm1982]

Trump might clean up Garcetti’s big mess .


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“– President Donald Trump took aim at “liberal” Los Angeles and California political leaders as he weighed in on the homelessness issue, hinting he may “intercede” to “get that whole thing cleaned up,”

“You can’t have what’s happening, where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat, they’re getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick,” Trump said.

He was referring to incidents in which a Los Angeles city employee said she contracted typhus at work, and in May an LAPD employee developed symptoms related to typhoid fever while working at the Central Station near Skid Row. Two other employees at the station developed symptoms consistent with the salmonella typhoid bacteria.”

http://www.dailynews.com/trump-paint...-may-intercede

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by jm1982

Trump might clean up Garcetti’s big mess .


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“– President Donald Trump took aim at “liberal” Los Angeles and California political leaders as he weighed in on the homelessness issue, hinting he may “intercede” to “get that whole thing cleaned up,”

“You can’t have what’s happening, where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat, they’re getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick,” Trump said.

He was referring to incidents in which a Los Angeles city employee said she contracted typhus at work, and in May an LAPD employee developed symptoms related to typhoid fever while working at the Central Station near Skid Row. Two other employees at the station developed symptoms consistent with the salmonella typhoid bacteria.”

http://www.dailynews.com/trump-paint...-may-intercede

Yeah, he’ll clean it up just like he’s cleaned up the mess in Iran, and halted the nukes in N.Korea, and stopped the flow of illegals across the southern border, and brought China to its knees, and made Pelosi bow to his will, and stopped Putin’s electioneering in its tracks ... and ... and ... and

By the way, jm, exactly none of those things he mentioned above about police and others getting sick have anything to do with homelessness.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

The truth never gets old Exitus. Repetitious fearmongering mythologies, such as you delight in spinning purely for entertainment apparently, do though.

And Hot Wheels. Hot Wheels get old for most people when they grow up. Not everybody. But most move on.

Oh the irony. BTW, did you respond to the post regarding the homeless destroying a nature preserve? Or let me guess, they really didn't do it. Perhaps it's fake news, just like everything else you don't like reading here is fake news.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by jm1982

Trump might clean up Garcetti’s big mess .

Garcetti's big mess? You've gotta be kidding.

“– President Donald Trump took aim at “liberal” Los Angeles and California political leaders as he weighed in on the homelessness issue, hinting he may “intercede” to “get that whole thing cleaned up,”...

“You’ll have to ask him what ‘interceding’ means. If interceding means cutting budgets to help support services to get people off the street, he’s been very successful, at least advancing those provisions,” Newsom told reporters Tuesday morning.

Then Newsom invited — or dared, in a way — Trump to follow through on his vow of federal intervention.

“It sounds like the president of the United States recognizes he has work to do on this issue. He is apparently committed to some intervention, which is encouraging,” Newsom said. “I’m looking forward to the details of his plan, and obviously he’s going to have to significantly change his budget.”

From the articles posted in #7221 and #7222