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Los Angeles agrees to proposal to spend $3B to house its massive homeless population

April 3, 2022 | | Print Article

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The city of Los Angeles, struggling with a homeless problem, has proposed to spend $3 billion over the next five years to try to house its massive homeless population — there are an estimated 41,000 homeless people in the city.

The proposal is the result of a complaint filed in 2020 by various business owners, residents, and other notable leaders in the community, accusing the city authorities of failing in their basic responsibilities to do something about the problem of endemic homelessness that has spilled over into all walks of life. The complaint alleged that the city has done nothing to address the conditions homeless face, such as crime, hunger, and Covid-19, reported NBC.

The city, therefore, has proposed spending between $2.4 to $3 billion in order to build housing with 14,000 to 16,000 beds, which would be intended to accommodate approximately 60 percent of the homeless in the 15 council districts that comprise Los Angeles. Anyone considered “chronically homeless” or have a chronic illness would still be the responsibility of Los Angeles County.

However, the litigation between Los Angeles County and the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, among others, is ongoing. Any final settlement has to be approved by the Los Angeles county council.

“We have families living in tents, women fleeing domestic violence sleeping in parks, people clearly struggling with mental illness walking our streets alone at night,” said Nury Martinez, City Council President, in a statement.

All this has helped fuel the war between city and county officials, each of whom blame the other for the homeless problem and the inaction that has allowed it to escalate to its current levels. This bickering between government officials at different levels has become a symbol of California’s large cities, in which homelessness has reached epic proportions while various officials and bureaucrats try to point the finger at each other.

Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de Leon blamed his colleagues at the county level, saying that the city itself now has “two choices:”

“When it became clear that our partners at the county were not interested in collaborating, we were left with two choices: We could ride the litigation merry-go-around while people live and die on our streets or cut our own pathway forward to help as many people as possible. We decided to lead because it isn’t our job as city leaders to play nice, country club politics with anyone.”

This isn’t the first time Los Angeles has faced legal troubles over its homeless problem. In 2021, U.S. District Judge David Carter produced a strongly worded 110-page order in which the city had to provide shelter for the homeless on Skid Row within 180 days, and in addition, audit its finances and spending on homeless services. The order denounced the total uselessness of city officials in doing anything about the rapid growth in homelessness, causing homeless camps to spread to every part of the city.

“All of the rhetoric, promises, plans, and budgeting cannot obscure the shameful reality of this crisis — that year after year, there are more homeless Angelenos, and year after year, more homeless Angelenos die on the streets,” Carter wrote as part of a preliminary injunction during the case.

Meanwhile, various homeless experts warn that thousands may die on the streets before sufficient housing is found, as the conflict rages between California, its county officials, its city officials, and the average citizens within those cities.

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24 thoughts on “Los Angeles agrees to proposal to spend $3B to house its massive homeless population”

  1. The reason why there are families living in tents, is because they cannot afford housing. The reason why they cannot afford housing is because the extortionist property tax rates.A dairy company offered my cousin high six figures to be their CFO. He considered it, went out there with his wife to look around, and concluded that there was NO WAY in Hell he would move out there. You have people renting room in garages to live in, and there are a lot of people living in RVs which they park on the street and moving them around every once in a while so as to not incur the wrath of the zoning officials.

  2. Only build 16K beds for 51K homeless waiting for FREE CA housing with benefits. Where do the rest put up their sidewalk tents? There are thousands more coming to CA for the Free housing. Soon to become the Welfare State (if not already).. Where is all the money coming from when the overtaxed are busy leaving the state? There is nothing more expensive than state built housing, after all the corruption pay offs.How about the state just buy up all the vacant motels and hotels. Tourists are no longer coming to the most dangerous streets of CA..

  3. What is that saying: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t force it to drink”?

  4. SOooo….Give or take a few thousand, about $75,000 a person. NOT counting electric/water/MISC which will probably also be added. What a rich country we are! LoL

  5. When you spend money on something, you get more of it. This will bring in more homeless.

    The best solution to the homeless problem is to purchase bottles of ammonia and then drop them in the homeless encampments at 2 AM

  6. As a 38 year street cop, retired Lieutenant of Patrol, I worked closely with the homeless. I not only worked as a cop enforcing laws but as a community activist trying to make a better life for street people. Homeless is a very complex problem but from experience I can testify to the fact that as many as ninety percent of them are homeless by choice. In the mix are mental patients and drug addicts who don’t have a clue what is going on. The worse our economy gets means this population will grow more and more. The more you restrict the freedoms of Americans, the more people you will have living on the street. On the same note there are millions of Americans who are full time RV’s who also enjoy the freedom of a mobile lifestyle. You must first fix what is broke before you can fix a problem.

    1. How many of the homeless are so because they lost their jobs to cheap replacement workers that were allowed to freely invade, and not sent back home?

  8. Now that’s money well spent. I saw another article and LA is spending on average $850,000 on a studio apartment for the homeless. Good use of tax dollars? NNNNNNOOOOOOO.

  10. Three billion. Is that a week or a month? How many decades do they plan to run the program? Of course the answer is forever, no government give away program EVER stops.

    Let’s go Brandon, and take Newsome with you. But then CA had the chance to dump Newsome and they screwed it up. Now he’s screwing all the taxpayers. Great Democratic plan in action!

  11. “I” LOVE Maxine Waters “telling’ the HOMELESS TO GO HOME!”Those there”, “SAID ,”WE AINT GOT NO HOME WHICH IS “WHY” we here! Maxine had the unmitigated “GALL”to say”I’ve fought for you” & I “f’n “DO” everything for you. Yeah right. . “I” think that these homeless people should “STORM”her MANSION AND “DRIVE HER OUT! THEN, “take over her mansion”!

  15. The best way to rid a city of the “homeless” is to walk down the street and hand out cards with an address and time to be for the JOB waiting for them!! And just like when you’re at a bar with a lot of “big gals” and they play “electric slide”, get out of the way!! The EXODUS from said city will be quick and furious!! Now there will be a FEW who show up for a job and a chance, but most will seek “greener” pastures!

    1. Hand them a card with the address of the local politicians, maybe they’ll relocate next to their representatives.

  16. I have a MUCH SIMPLER and MUCH CHEAPER idea!! If there are TRULY 41,000 HOMELESS Californians the solution is right there before their eyes!! There are over 10 MILLION democrats in CA per a search. Just check real estate records vs tax returns to determine WHO has SPARE ROOMS in their HOMES!! Then simply ASSIGN a HOMELESS person to a random democrat!! It is only FAIR that the voters who caused this mess be the ones who are responsible for the solution!!

  17. Wow . I fought for this country and paid taxes and no one cared one iota when I was homeless. Hell they didnt even care when I was hungry. Screw Biden.

  18. For one thing ,14000,is not 60% of 41000, it’s not even half,,,scum Angeles is getting a new mayor,so he needs to become a millionaire just like the rest of them on 75000 a year,,,,,,FJB,,,,,sympl1

  19. No matter how nice the housing is, those homeless, illegals and refugees will destroy anything they are given. I have seen it over and over again with homeless and 3rd world refugees. I have a friend who was in charge of finding housing for the poor and he showed me, many times the utter destruction of apartments and hotel rooms where they were housed-it was sickening.

    2. If they have no “skin” in the game, they could care less about it’s upkeep. Proven over and over in all democrat run cities. They know we’ll tear them down and give them newer.

      1. lived there in the 70s wed tear them down someone would rebuild them. never went back and dont want too sht hole then still must be fjb

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