Petrasylvania wrote:Great idea, but will they be decent housing or bare bones roach motels with burgeoning bed bug civilizations?
For 57,000 people, while the budget is being tightened? Take a guess.
Chan Island wrote:USS Monitor wrote:I don't really have the time and inclination to dig into the details of the proposals, but the broader concept of providing housing to homeless people is solid. In some cases, the cost of the housing is less than the cost of hospital stays, police intervention, etc. that occur because people are left out on the street. Being out on the street makes people more vulnerable to getting robbed, getting in fights, developing medical problems, etc. which then require intervention. If they were housed somewhere, they would not bother other people as much or get sick as often.
Also: Holy crap, LA. 57,000 homeless???? The whole state of Massachusetts doesn't even have that many, and I still see friggin' panhandlers all the time. That is way too many.
The entire state of California has a very high homelessness rate. Partly that's the large general population, and I've heard (can't confirm) that it's mostly to do with how they are more decent with homelessness there than in their neighbours, so homeless people from AZ, OR or NV travel there.
As a state we proudly import homeless people. Homieless people can come too.
Improved werpland wrote:Good, but LA should also consider reforming zoning laws and other deregulations in that regard.
Yes, let's deregulate zoning laws as well as gathering more homeless - great idea! And let's keep our prison system rules the same. I see absolutely no drawback to this policy, I mean it's not like it'll greatly deflate home values, get homeless blamed for a degradation of said values, perpetuate violence against homeless by the property owners who just had their values deflated, have our current pro-rich prison system throw the homeless in jail for others being violent against them, have their deceases spread throughout the jail, where quite a few minority gangmembers are interned, have these minorities infect other minorities when they leave jail, allow the crazy racists actual proof of minorities spreading disease causing race value and further property value degradation in California, which in turn leads to more violence... Werpland for Mayor of LA! /sarcasm
Why is it that the people who are most ignorant about our zoning laws, which are "only" responsible for 14% of our GSP, that's $385 billion per year in State Revenue, are quick to attack our zoning laws? Guys, they work. It's one of the few parts of California that works. Let's not fuck with it. $385 billion is good. Let's keep that.