Los Angeles’ anti-homelessness drive is doomed to fail just like NYC’s

[Kamaji]

Los Angeles’ anti-homelessness drive is doomed to fail just like NYC’s

By NY Post Editorial Board
July 9, 2023

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is on a major drive to combat homelessness — one that’s guaranteed to fail, as any New Yorker could tell her.

Her central focus, after all, is simply to provide housing, much as Gotham’s tried for decades without making a dent in the problem.

As here, LA’s leaders refuse to face facts about why people are homeless, pretending it’s a “lack of affordable housing” rather than individual mental-health and drug-abuse issues.

On taking office last December, Bass declared homelessness a citywide state of emergency — fair enough, since the homeless ranks grew an estimated 10% last year and sprawling encampments and other outrages made it the top issue in the mayoral race.

But her signature initiative is Inside Safe, a $250 million bid to put up homeless in motels with an eye to getting them permanent shelter of some kind.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/09/los-angeles-homeless-move-doomed-to-fail-like-new-yorks/

[DefiantMassRINO]

L.A. would be more successful if it bussed its homeless to San Diego; San Francisco; Portland, OR; and Seattle, WA.

Cost of housing and cost of living is becoming a greater problem in Dem areas because of their NIMBY anti-growth policies.  More housing will could help prices it was bought by primary resident families instead of investors, who'll rent them out.

There was a great missed opportunity to grow the middle class during the 2007-2009 financial crisis and its aftermath.

In the wake of the 1980s/early 1990s housing bust, the FDIC Resolution Trust Company sold forclosed homes to first-time homebuyers and primary residence families at firesale prices.  Those homeowners would use those homes to accumulate wealth throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, growing the middle class via real estate appreciation.

In the wake of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis, many foreclosed properties were sold to Pirate Equity investors, who went on to rent the properties.  This took affordable housing opportunities away from primary resident families and exacerbated wealth inequality.

Making more housing supply available to the market for primary resident families will help; but, it will not fix the mental health and addiction issues that homeless residents have.

[GtHawk]

Los Angeles’ anti-homelessness drive is doomed to fail just like NYC’s

By NY Post Editorial Board
July 9, 2023

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is on a major drive to combat homelessness — one that’s guaranteed to fail, as any New Yorker could tell her.

Her central focus, after all, is simply to provide housing, much as Gotham’s tried for decades without making a dent in the problem.

As here, LA’s leaders refuse to face facts about why people are homeless, pretending it’s a “lack of affordable housing” rather than individual mental-health and drug-abuse issues.

On taking office last December, Bass declared homelessness a citywide state of emergency — fair enough, since the homeless ranks grew an estimated 10% last year and sprawling encampments and other outrages made it the top issue in the mayoral race.

But her signature initiative is Inside Safe, a $250 million bid to put up homeless in motels with an eye to getting them permanent shelter of some kind.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/09/los-angeles-homeless-move-doomed-to-fail-like-new-yorks/

So the plan is to eliminate homelessness by throwing more freebies, housing at it? Can you say expanding slum areas? Buena Park, C. had a different way of dealing with Homeless, drug addicts and prostitution, they condemned/bought all the piss ass motels and mandated they be replaced with multi story mixed use buildings and businesses like restaurants and modern Hotel/motel that catered to the vacationers/tourists visiting Knott's Berry Farm as well as the locals. It proved so successful that a much smaller city city with the same problems(Stanton) just south on Beach Blvd. implemented the same measures. If you want to make a dent you have to deal with the real underlying issues and eliminate the confiscation of public walkways and parks by the mentally ill and addicted.

[Kamaji]

So the plan is to eliminate homelessness by throwing more freebies, housing at it? Can you say expanding slum areas? Buena Park, C. had a different way of dealing with Homeless, drug addicts and prostitution, they condemned/bought all the piss ass motels and mandated they be replaced with multi story mixed use buildings and businesses like restaurants and modern Hotel/motel that catered to the vacationers/tourists visiting Knott's Berry Farm as well as the locals. It proved so successful that a much smaller city city with the same problems(Stanton) just south on Beach Blvd. implemented the same measures. If you want to make a dent you have to deal with the real underlying issues and eliminate the confiscation of public walkways and parks by the mentally ill and addicted.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The homeless will sell the freebies on the street for drugs.