The Los Angeles Homeless Containment Thread (section 8, houses, high school)

[RationalExpectations]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

Maybe Trump should do something about the 4.2 million families who are on waiting lists for section 8 housing?

'Cause under Obama, there was no such wait list for section 8 housing. Riiiiiiiiight.

You're usually sharper than that.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by RationalExpectations

'Cause under Obama, there was no such wait list for section 8 housing. Riiiiiiiiight.

You're usually sharper than that.

It would be rational to observe that no one’s been discussing anything connected to Obama? That the reason for these comments about Trump is that he has just this week specifically been tweeting with typical bluster about California homelessness.

[Finper]

Only Crapcetti can covertly bash PTrump in every sentence he utters begging him for money. That video he just posted from a shelter because PTrump doesn't want him anywhere near him is a true work of art

[CA4Now]

"Shawn Pleasants has the kind of resume that would attract the attention of any job recruiter: high school valedictorian, economics major from Yale University, Wall Street banking jobs, small business entrepreneur. But a few wrong turns in life 10 years ago left him homeless, and today he's living underneath a tarp in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles.

He's been told before that a smart and capable person like him should not be in this situation.
"But I'm like, should anybody be here? Who should, then?" Pleasants said.

Pleasants' story is a reminder of how complex the problem of homelessness can be. "It means it can happen to anybody. It's a problem we all could face..."

He was a Yale graduate, Wall Street banker and entrepreneur. Today he's homeless in Los Angeles:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/us/lo...ess/index.html

[Genghis]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

"Shawn Pleasants has the kind of resume that would attract the attention of any job recruiter: high school valedictorian, economics major from Yale University, Wall Street banking jobs, small business entrepreneur. But a few wrong turns in life 10 years ago left him homeless, and today he's living underneath a tarp in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles.

He's been told before that a smart and capable person like him should not be in this situation.
"But I'm like, should anybody be here? Who should, then?" Pleasants said.

Pleasants' story is a reminder of how complex the problem of homelessness can be. "It means it can happen to anybody. It's a problem we all could face..."

He was a Yale graduate, Wall Street banker and entrepreneur. Today he's homeless in Los Angeles:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/us/lo...ess/index.html

Sadly, I've seen this sort of story before: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...ce1_story.html

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

President Trump gets to see the result of liberal compassion, not enforcing the laws, and total one party rule in downtown LA today.

If you really think that's what's caused the escalation in homelessness in so many U.S. cities, you're misinformed.

I suppose you prefer Trump's response: Trump claimed that his administration has given “notice” to California, though it was unclear what “notice” was given.

“Clean it up,” he said. “You’ve got to do something. You can’t have it. These are our great American cities and they’re an embarrassment.”

[Finper]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

If you really think that's what's caused the escalation in homelessness in so many U.S. cities, you're misinformed.

I suppose you prefer Trump's response: Trump claimed that his administration has given “notice” to California, though it was unclear what “notice” was given.

“Clean it up,” he said. “You’ve got to do something. You can’t have it. These are our great American cities and they’re an embarrassment.”

I prefer Trumps response.

That guy you just posted about that went to Yale is nothing special here. A drug addicted bipolar that won't go near a shelter. LA has been too nice and letting this continue so we have a crisis now. Time for Trump to call in the national guard and clean this up. If anybody will do it it's him.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Finper

I prefer Trumps response.

If only it were so easy. We'd all probably prefer his response ("Clean it up," he said. "You’ve got to do something. You can’t have it") if that actually did anything to mitigate the problem.

Originally Posted by Finper

That guy you just posted about that went to Yale is nothing special here.

Were we discussing "special" cases of homelessness?

Originally Posted by Finper

LA has been too nice and letting this continue so we have a crisis now.

Not sure that it has anything to do with a city being "too nice." https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...es/3410072002/

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-ph...-advocates-say

As Steve Lopez commented about this escalating problem, "You can’t have flat wages, obscene real estate prices, a failed war on drugs and a shredding of federal assistance, and not expect some folks to spill onto the streets."

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

If only it were so easy. We'd all probably prefer his response ("Clean it up," he said. "You’ve got to do something. You can’t have it") if that actually did anything to mitigate the problem.



Were we discussing "special" cases of homelessness?



Not sure that it has anything to do with a city being "too nice." https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...es/3410072002/

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-ph...-advocates-say

As Steve Lopez commented about this escalating problem, "You can’t have flat wages, obscene real estate prices, a failed war on drugs and a shredding of federal assistance, and not expect some folks to spill onto the streets."

And what is LA actually doing about it that is reducing the number of homeless? Nothing that is reducing the number, as it is growing beyond the number of the few being helped. Oh, they are taking a lot of money and paying friends to study the problem.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by expatCA

And what is LA actually doing about it that is reducing the number of homeless? Nothing that is reducing the number, as it is growing beyond the number of the few being helped. Oh, they are taking a lot of money and paying friends to study the problem.

Two years and nine months since voters approved HHH, not one unit of housing financed by the measure is open. A single project with 62 units is scheduled to open in late November. Meanwhile, the landscape of the city, literally and figuratively, has only gotten more grim. Homelessness surged 16% in the city this year to about 36,000 people, 27,000 of whom are unsheltered. Encampments and trash proliferate across sidewalks and curbs.

To city residents, this is maddening — they’re spending more than a billion dollars on housing, and all they see are more people camped on sidewalks.

But here’s what they can’t see: Including this last round of recommendations, the city will be helping to create more than 8,000 units of housing. That includes 5,873 supportive housing units for homeless people who need social services, 1,641 affordable units for very-low-income Angelenos, and 975 smaller units being constructed of innovative materials for homeless residents. There are 1,400 units in construction right now, 1,000 of which are expected to be ready to occupy in 2020. An additional 3,713 are forecast to open in 2021.

You can’t see the results yet, but L.A.'s HHH homeless housing is being built:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...oney-allocated