Los Angeles Is Spending $4.5 Billion To End Homelessness

[JP_614]

man, i was in honolulu recently and yeah, the homelessness there is pretty pronounced even around waikiki.

i'm in LA... it's no doubt bad here and a multifactorial problem. it's even worse up in the Bay. last time i went up there, i saw a homeless breh on the BART deep shampooing and conditioning his hair on the train with a gallon of water... suds all over the seats and shyt

LMAO i think the worst ive seen was a old lady i was riding my bike into work older homeless lady with a walker face down ass up taking a shyt like nobody was looking full blown chunks of shyt straight disgusted and in know she could wipe her ass

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

Saying homeless ppl should just move to another state for a low COL and job opportunities is oversimplifying it. I've driven around skid row and that shyt looks like a scene from the walking dead. A lot of them are walking around with no shoes and there's needles and broken glass on the ground. Plus they're crazy and need medical attention before they work somewhere. shyt is brazy.

4.5 billion is a lot of money but I don't think it's gonna do much.

 

[UpAndComing]

Saying homeless ppl should just move to another state for a low COL and job opportunities is oversimplifying it. I've driven around skid row and that shyt looks like a scene from the walking dead. A lot of them are walking around with no shoes and there's needles and broken glass on the ground. Plus they're crazy and need medical attention before they work somewhere. shyt is brazy.

4.5 billion is a lot of money but I don't think it's gonna do much.

I think you're oversimplifying the after effect saying "They are dirty, smelly, with needles. Of course they can't work"

Instead of saying, they have no opportunity to work and have a home, so they won't be dirty, smelly, and with needles

High unemployment leads to these problems

 

[Chrishaune]

I think you're oversimplifying the after effect saying "They are dirty, smelly, with needles. Of course they can't work"

Instead of saying, they have no opportunity to work and have a home, so they won't be dirty, smelly, and with needles

High unemployment leads to these problems

Throwing jobs at them isn't always the answer. They have mental issues they have to work through first before being able to focus on going to work on time everyday for the rest of their lives or until they retire. They need help. There might not be an answer for them all, but obviously people can't live on the streets for the rest of their lives either. Some have actually already been in the workforce and just fell off over time. They have no hope in the current system. You can't put a person like that at the conveyor belt everyday. The world is messed up, we know this. You help your brother in need, however you can. The taxes are coming out of your check anyway no matter what. I'd rather it go to a cause like this instead of going into some rich politicians pocket.

 

[unit321]

Wow
I don't understand. Wouldn't it be beneficial if most of them move to places like Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, etc who have really really cheap cost of living and industries who are begging for workers

Yes, you are right.
The Captain Obvious answer would be just to put them on a bus and drop them off thousands of miles away. Ain't no way they are walking back. They are too lazy to get a job, why would they walk 1,000 miles to live under a bridge in LA?

 

[MegaManX]

Spending $4.5 Billion on bums?
by taxing those who work?
damn liberals

unchecked homelessness causes massive upticks in crime, disease, and dramatically impacts tourism.

 

[Tunez]

America created homeless

 

[UpAndComing]

Throwing jobs at them isn't always the answer. They have mental issues they have to work through first before being able to focus on going to work on time everyday for the rest of their lives or until they retire. They need help. There might not be an answer for them all, but obviously people can't live on the streets for the rest of their lives either. Some have actually already been in the workforce and just fell off over time. They have no hope in the current system. You can't put a person like that at the conveyor belt everyday. The world is messed up, we know this. You help your brother in need, however you can. The taxes are coming out of your check anyway no matter what. I'd rather it go to a cause like this instead of going into some rich politicians pocket.

So you gonna be completely oblivious to the Rise and Fall of the American Rust Belt?
The manufacturing cities in the Midwest

Those same people who were making money, raising families, having businesses, white picket fence...

When America sold us out to foreign labor and closed the Factories. Those were the same people who eventually did crime, beg on the street, get high off drugs, and commit suicide

 

[Amor fati]

Yeah sure...Somebody keep us updated.

 

[Amor fati]

double post

 

[Amor fati]

America created homeless

Exactly that's why the elite ain't gonna do shyt.

 

[dj-method-x]

Homeless =/= Have no money


Outside of the mentally ill, I have seen full functional homeless people have cash and have a steady diet of getting cash from panhandling. Am I saying they got 80K savings? No

The housing market in the states I named are extremely relaxed from rented rooms on $50 a week till you get on your feet, or full fledged safe homeless shelters. Also seen 1 bedroom apartments as low as $350 a month. AND homeless programs that help pay for your first months rent in an apartment while helping find a minimum wage job

Keep laughing at "bu bu bu they live in the sun". Do you want them to live in the sun, or live in a boring ass cold place with a steady job and a roof over their head?

lol @ you thinking rink a dink cities in Iowa are going to let THE SECOND BIGGEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY dump all of their homeless in them



Can't believe you typed that with a straight face.

 

[dj-method-x]

LA could just lower the housing market prices and end homelessness

Some of you dudes are really idiots. If you bought your house for 2 million, how would you feel if the city/state came around and told you HAD to sell it for 500k? That's basically what you're advocating for. Govt's just can't "lower" housing market prices dumb ass.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Majority of their homeless are cacs who moved out there to be homeless

In the most expensive state in America

 

[Barnett114]

Majority of their homeless are cacs who moved out there to be homeless

The majority of adults experiencing homelessness (72%) have been living in LA County for more than 20 years

https://documents.lahsa.org/Planning/homelesscount/2016/factsheet/2016-HC-Results.pdf