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The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
« on: November 25, 2018, 05:12:19 pm »
The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities

    Noah Buhayar
    Esmé E. Deprez

November 20 2018, 7:00 AM
November 21 2018, 12:36 PM

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- It was just after 10 p.m. on an overcast September night in Los Angeles, and L. was tired from a long day of class prep, teaching, and grading papers. So the 57-year-old anthropology professor fed her Chihuahua-dachshund mix a freeze-dried chicken strip, swapped her cigarette trousers for stretchy black yoga pants, and began to unfold a set of white sheets and a beige cotton blanket to make up her bed.

But first she had to recline the passenger seat of her 2015 Nissan Leaf as far as it would go—that being her bed in the parking lot she’d called home for almost three months. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was playing on her iPad as she drifted off for another night. “Like sleeping on an airplane—but not in first class,” she said. That was in part by design. “I don’t want to get more comfortable. I want to get out of here.”

https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/the-homeless-crisis-is-getting-worse-in-america-s-richest-cities#gs.WtO7u2M
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Re: The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2018, 05:17:53 pm »
America's "richest" cities are also run by Democrats. There's a lesson in there, but voters are too obtuse to see it.

Where was this article when Obama was President? The homeless problem has been worsening for years, this isn't Trump's fault.

ETA: plenty of professors are needed at CC's in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. The prof needs to gas up her Leaf (or recharge), and move out of CA.
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« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2018, 05:27:16 pm »
Have more programs in cities to help the homeless. Attract more homeless
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« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2018, 05:32:34 pm »
Quote from: LMAO on November 25, 2018, 05:27:16 pm
Have more programs in cities to help the homeless. Attract more homeless

The weather's better in Cali, too!  No one wants to be in Texas during the summer time, it's a self regulating feature of the Lone Star State. lol
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Re: The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2018, 02:17:06 am »
This is another example of the government, be it, local, state or federal, creating the law of unintended consequences with their noble deeds
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« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2018, 02:22:35 am »
It is incredulous.  But if you think about it is a Rat paradise. Homelessness. Defalcation. Panhandling. Life is good.
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Re: The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2018, 02:38:40 am »
Quote from: LMAO on November 25, 2018, 05:27:16 pm
Have more programs in cities to help the homeless. Attract more homeless

It actually has more to do with idiocies like rent control and quasi-extortionate zoning and building codes that essentially make it impossible to build decent housing on the scale required.  And no, I’m not talking about “affordable housing” which is just a dog whistle for subsidized housing, I’m talking about regular apartments with a market rate rent that middle class folks can afford.  Every one of these cities have these sorts of idiotic laws.  The only people who benefit are the rich white liberals who wrote the laws, and the luxury condo and coop developers. 
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« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2018, 02:41:17 am »
Quote from: LMAO on November 25, 2018, 05:27:16 pm
Have more programs in cities to help the homeless. Attract more homeless

Actually, it's have rent control, destroy the rental housing market, create homeless people.
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« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2018, 02:45:24 am »
Quote from: The_Reader_David on November 26, 2018, 02:41:17 am
Actually, it's have rent control, destroy the rental housing market, create homeless people.


It’s not just rent control; it’s also zoning and the building permitting process. 
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