The Los Angeles Homeless Containment Thread (Sacramento, Santa Ana: requirement, MBA, drug)

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by jm1982

Jerry Brown is always bragging about the CA economy . It should be best in his backyard of Sacramento right?
Better than Texas or any other place.

Blows them out of the water right ?

Bums don't even want to live in Sacramento.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by CaliRestoration

Find economic opportunity that they can't currently find? You know, how a real economy works?

oh yes... economic opportunity, I'm sure there will be employers clamoring to hire homeless people fresh off the bus, you betcha

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

oh yes... economic opportunity, I'm sure there will be employers clamoring to hire homeless people fresh off the bus, you betcha

You betcha! Illegal aliens do it all the time, they don't even speak English, have a permanent address, or even have an education. According to you, many homeless are just "hard on their luck" people who are perfectly fine.

If they clean themselves up which they can easily do if they don't spend their money on "$20 bags" of drugs, and show up ready to work, they could get work in the Fracking Fields of North Dakota, or as a farm hand in Iowa.

[jm1982]

https://www.dailynews.com/2018/04/09...ys-new-budget/

[CA4Now]

Where some of the Measure H money has gone so far:

From July through December (2017), county efforts and money from Measure H has among others helped:

658 families that received homeless prevention services
483 homeless, disabled persons who obtained Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and were housed
1,037 people placed in rapid re-housing programs moved on to permanent housing
4,261 disabled individuals to complete applications for SSI or Veterans Disability Benefits
1,064 individuals who exited shelters to go into permanent housing

https://www.dailynews.com/2018/02/08...-the-homeless/

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by Finper

The illustrious Janice Hahn was on a news show this morning talking about the LA homeless. The first question was what's being done with all that money set aside for the homeless. Answer: I wish we could end homelessness tomorrow but we have ten years to figure out how to spend that money So there you have it straight from Hahns lips. Nothing is going to happen to fix homeless for many years. Angelenos get used to the tents, syringes and crazies.

That doesn't surprise me. Those tasked with solving a problem rarely have an incentive to actually solve it. They have an incentive to treat the problem over an extended period of time, as that preserves their own paychecks.

The fix, in some sense, is both simple and not achievable: pass a law/initiative that says if the homelessness population has not been reduced below X% that ALL elected officials are ineligible for re-election, and ALL public sector employees will have their pay docked by 10% and their pensions docked by 10%, and rachet up the penalties each year.

That will focus *everyone* into solving the problem rather than treating it.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

That doesn't surprise me. Those tasked with solving a problem rarely have an incentive to actually solve it. They have an incentive to treat the problem over an extended period of time, as that preserves their own paychecks.

The fix, in some sense, is both simple and not achievable: pass a law/initiative that says if the homelessness population has not been reduced below X% that ALL elected officials are ineligible for re-election, and ALL public sector employees will have their pay docked by 10% and their pensions docked by 10%, and rachet up the penalties each year.

That will focus *everyone* into solving the problem rather than treating it.

That would do it.

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

That doesn't surprise me. Those tasked with solving a problem rarely have an incentive to actually solve it. They have an incentive to treat the problem over an extended period of time, as that preserves their own paychecks.

The fix, in some sense, is both simple and not achievable: pass a law/initiative that says if the homelessness population has not been reduced below X% that ALL elected officials are ineligible for re-election, and ALL public sector employees will have their pay docked by 10% and their pensions docked by 10%, and rachet up the penalties each year.

That will focus *everyone* into solving the problem rather than treating it.

Realistically, the best way to fix it is to find a way to put these people to work. Handouts, and entitlements have not fixed the problem and never will. All you will get is a situation like New York where taxpayers are now on the hook to house 60,000+ people a night.



Who wants to bet real cash that New Yorkers are going to be paying to house 70,000 people during Trump's second term?

[TCROX]

Anybody wanna guess how much crime in LA is NOT being reported???!!!
dirty jerry's army is now claiming turf many .many areas of LA and SO Cal.... only by removing them from the streets will we get a real chance to help everyone! I also wonder if LA area will be the real experiment of how to really ramp up the crime and steal the tax money..
https://www.sbsun.com/2018/04/09/pan...general-store/
dirty, dirty jerry
people still love him and want more of this- free housing, free everything to ALL ! So you harassed and sliced up some innocent shoppers- get back out there amigo!

[TCROX]

Simply utilizing harm to yourself and others seems to fly against all the hopes and dreams the left have for decent, law abiding taxpayers....even though they, themselves created that standard....
The libs can't get more money for the "service" "people" if the cities don't get trashed and innocent people don't get permanently damaged or killed.