The Los Angeles Homeless Containment Thread (Pasadena, South Pasadena: vaccinations, mortgage, hotel)

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

Illegitamate mayor Bass is crowing about getting 100 homeless off the street temporally, That is success to her and she has done what she campaigned on solving the homeless problem.

"Illegitamate mayor Bass..." What on earth? Why do you label people in such a bizarre way?

[CA4Now]

A 13-story hotel that has served as a cornerstone of Los Angeles’ fight against homelessness, a facility that had been set to cease operations in less than three weeks, will be kept open for an additional year, city officials said Friday.

The L.A. Grand Hotel, which served as temporary housing for a portion of the city’s homeless population since the outbreak of COVID-19, will continue operating until at least Jan. 31, 2024, said Mercedes Marquez, the mayor’s chief of housing and homelessness solutions.

The hotel, which had provided the city with about 480 rooms, is expected to give Bass a critical tool as she ramps up the activities of Inside Safe, her initiative to dismantle homeless encampments and bring unhoused people indoors.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...rce=reddit.com

[Suburban_Guy]

Good job, but unfortunately those encampments will be back up in a few days.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUWGitQ_r6A

[mcp86]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...causes/672224/

[Thekdog]

Originally Posted by mcp86

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...causes/672224/

Caruso actually ran on getting rid of discretionary review.

Bass is just status quo with more sweeps.

The problem not noted for Democrats is that they tend to be anti developer and landlord. Their suspicion of business and making money hurts housing development. In less progressive states, a developer wanting to build stuff is looked at as a good thing, not as a greedy act that needs to be slowed and regulated.

[Astral_Weeks]

Originally Posted by Thekdog

The problem not noted for Democrats is that they tend to be anti developer and landlord. Their suspicion of business and making money hurts housing development. In less progressive states, a developer wanting to build stuff is looked at as a good thing, not as a greedy act that needs to be slowed and regulated.

Quoting directly from the superb Atlantic article linked by MCP86:

"But liberalism is largely to blame for the homelessness crisis: A contradiction at the core of liberal ideology has precluded Democratic politicians, who run most of the cities where homelessness is most acute, from addressing the issue. Liberals have stated preferences that housing should be affordable, particularly for marginalized groups that have historically been shunted to the peripheries of the housing market. But local politicians seeking to protect the interests of incumbent homeowners spawned a web of regulations, laws, and norms that has made blocking the development of new housing pitifully simple."

"This contradiction drives the ever more visible crisis. As the historian Jacob Anbinder has explained, in the ’70s and ’80s conservationists, architectural preservationists, homeowner groups, and left-wing organizations formed a loose coalition in opposition to development. Throughout this period, Anbinder writes, “the implementation of height limits, density restrictions, design review boards, mandatory community input, and other veto points in the development process” made it much harder to build housing."

"This coalition—whose central purpose is opposition to neighborhood change and the protection of home values—now dominates politics in high-growth areas across the country, and has made it easy for even small groups of objectors to prevent housing from being built. The result? The U.S. is now millions of homes short of what its population needs."

Again, that is an excellent article by one of the better journalists writing about housing and homeless issues. She does not let ideology get in the way.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...causes/672224/

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Actually, California is 4th in the nation. And this is the Los Angeles forum, Vega.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...e-us-by-state/

That's a ratio like they consider covid not total count. I was surprised that Hawaii was that high.

[Suburban_Guy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAl9e4JF_iM

[mgforshort]

I don't want to start a new thread, so I'll just add to this. The post is about the hypocrisy of the HIC, the Homeless Industrial Complex.

We live 13 miles from Chico, CA. Chico is a woke, progressive, liberal college town. Every time we turn on the local TV channels there is a long sob story about the plight of the homeless and how can we help them.

So someone created a "community fridge". It is an old refrigerator in an alley, powered by a long extension cord, coming from a sympathetic resident. Anyone can place food there, or take food from it. There are bananas, yogurt, apples, a few sandwiches. Next to it is an old shelf, with free socks, soap, towels, whatever. People donate, and others take what they could use.

So the City of Chico requested that they either shut it down or get a conditional use permit at the cost of $ 1,700. It is repeatedly shown on our local news on TV. The city doesn't have the common sense to waive the fee, or pay it out of the millions they get from various state/federal grants and from private donations. I can't think of a better example how the HIC is looking out for their own paychecks and pensions.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by mgforshort

...So the City of Chico requested that they either shut it down or get a conditional use permit at the cost of $ 1,700. It is repeatedly shown on our local news on TV. The city doesn't have the common sense to waive the fee, or pay it out of the millions they get from various state/federal grants and from private donations. I can't think of a better example how the HIC is looking out for their own paychecks and pensions.

That's horrible. Another reason why we don't seem to make a dent in escalating cases of homelessness.