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[quote=www.hollywoodreporter.com]
LA’s Battle for Venice Beach: Homeless Surge Puts Hollywood’s Progressive Ideals to the Test…Los Angeles is grappling with a homeless epidemic. “It’s the worst human catastrophe in America,” says Andy Bales, a pastor who runs the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row. Faced with a growing crisis, city leaders last year budgeted more than $100 million for affordable housing, addiction treatment, job placement and mental health services. And yet, as L.A.’s real estate prices soar, so does the city’s homeless population.
…”There are actually [residents] advocating driving the homeless out of Venice — shipping them off somewhere, which is such a proto-fascist move,”
…Disagreements over the potential causes of the crimes have begun to factionalize Venice’s neighborhoods.
…The most common refrain heard when discussing the cause of L.A.’s homeless crisis is soaring housing costs. But there are other forces at play in Venice and throughout the city involving various laws and ballot measures that date back more than a decade. A 2006 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Jones v. City of Los Angeles required that law enforcement and city officials no longer enforce the ban on sleeping on sidewalks anywhere in the city until a sufficient amount of permanent supportive housing could be built. Further complicating matters were two state ballot measures that voters overwhelmingly approved in 2016 — Propositions 47 and 57 — which decriminalized certain felonies to misdemeanors in an effort to address the state’s overburdened prison system.
After multiple tire slashings, one resident built a homemade deterrent system
Others have put up unpermitted planters to eat up sidewalk space
now the real life “hollywood” trailer,… homeless zombies coming to neighborhood near you?
[quote=FlyerInHi]
What burns me is that the states that send us their worst people think that the homeless problem is a coastal city thing. People come here to beg because of the attractive environment. We need CalExit so we can deport these people them back home to their folks.[/quote][sarcasm on]
given POTUS and his talking/tweeting points of the virtues of a great big beautiful wall and your mentioning deporting the worst people,… perhaps we can combine the two ideas for a “final solution!”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-moments-hitlers-final-solution-180961387/
[sarcasm off]
all joking aside, what burns me is political candidates and politicians (i.e. “leadership”) that seem to be grandstanding, greedy and/or outright narcissistic 99.9% of the time
as I see things avoidable problems are caused by ass kissing politicians (who do pretty much nothing but pander to their base) along w/ government bureaucrats (i.e. public employee union leadership) who have no economic incentive to change the status quo of feeding like gluttonous pigs at the taxpayers trough
on the national level we obviously have POTUS and his selfish, idiotic stand of partly closing down government, so he can build a wall (as sort of a monument to himself) and coincidently seems trump has also managed to do a pretty good job of feeding like a gluttonous pig at the taxpayers trough (which is exactly like something an african dictator would do)
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/trevor-noah-donald-trump-dictator-214358
or like yesterday afternoon at the local coffee house at the informal weekly discussion where I pointed out to a few neighbors,… seems the root cause of the many local problem(s) (i.e. ever increasing public pension debt, ever increasing “homeless” etc.) is because intellectually challenged career politicians just keep on running for different political offices and are not addressing the various difficult issues in the political offices they leave behind so government bureaucrats it seems then have nothing stopping them from running amuck
since I mentioned trump and the idea of the wall being a sort of a monument to himself,… one talent/trait, all intellectually challenged career politicians seem to have is, posting slick self promotional youtube champaign videos that somehow don’t ever mention the inconvenient truth of their actual actions in office,… for example the local ass kissing, intellectually challenged career politician (of the district) is now setting sights on the mayor’s office
what’s needed to counter this “fake leadership candidate” from causing even more damage to the system is “real honest news” that pulls no punches
http://www.TinyURL.com/ToddGloria
god help us if this idiot manages to continue to convince political partisans he has any real leadership skills to solve big and vary real problems in this city that need to be addressed
http://www.TinyURL.com/13thcheck “annual 13th public pension checks”
http://www.TinyURL.com/2019SDRE “high cost of SD housing (RealEstate)”
http://www.TinyURL.com/InvestorWarning “climate change effects”
bottom line as I see things,… with $hit leadership increased “homeless” (which is a symptom of mismanagement) is inevitable no matter big city or small town,… red state or blue state,… etc., etc., etc.
given 2020 elections,… aside from public pension mismanagement, here is another topic the media and voters should be pressing various candidates for answers/leadership
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Taxpayers Group Can’t Find Link Between Spending, Homelessness DeclineWhile government spending on local homeless services has dramatically increased throughout the county over the last decade, the effect of that spending is difficult to quantify, according to a report released Tuesday by the San Diego Taxpayers Educational Foundation.
…Because of the poor data collection, it is difficult to determine just how much homeless spending affects local homelessness populations, according to the report, which notes that countywide spending on homelessness services increased by more than 2,000 percent between 2009 and 2018.
Taxpayers Group Can’t Find Link Between Spending, Homelessness Decline
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San Diego Has Fourth-Highest Homeless Population In The USSan Diego County had the fourth-most homeless residents in the U.S. this year, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/dec/17/san-diego-has-fourth-highest-homeless-population/
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FYI like mismanaged public pensions, the problem of homelessness isn’t just a big local problem
Seattle is Dying
Seattle Is Dying: Hundreds Of Homeless Dead Due To Failed Public Health Policy
https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/03/19/seattle-dying-hundreds-homeless-dead-due-failed-public-health-policy-13896This week: Is Seattle really dying?
https://www.kuow.org/stories/this-week-is-seattle-dying
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