Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, who was elected in November after promising to take on the city’s out-of-control homeless crisis, announced Monday she would recommend spending what she called a record $1.3 billion next year to get unhoused people into shelter and treatment programs.
Meanwhile, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has promised to deliver 500 units of temporary housing to the city, while the Biden administration has sent the city and county more than $200 million for homeless programs, she added. Bass’ overall optimism would be expected for a mayor in the early months of a first term, but it also belies looming challenges that could reshape her time in office.
Good. What’s the other solution? Exactly what is happening now. Human suffering.
And no doubt she'll want federal tax dollars.
So they can trash it, burn it down? Spend money on Mental Health first that would make more sense!
Billion hahaha Jesus Christ!
I'm sure Walmart will be moving out, just use those 😆
Free housing and then, if they qualify, millions of $’s as reparations! Just save a lot aside for vaccine mandate lawsuits and the residents should finally begin to heal from the injustices of the past.
If this wasn’t so corrupted, I would be for it, but that money will just go in the governments pocket they never do anything for the homeless. It’s all lies like usual.
Rainbow is losing its' colors.
Give her the free Ukraine check . Dam it Vote democrat 😂
To hand out tarps? I bit of overreach in the making. Fix it with the LAW. Enforcement of the LAWs. Will you buy more China Fentanyl for voters? Legalize Fentanyl, Meth, Heroin, and Cocaine? Is that your fix? How about move to Australia NOW please.
Housing NYC homeless in hotels is a disaster for neighborhoods in which they are housed. It brings dealers, needles, shoplifting, violence, prostitutes... police car and ambulances outside of the hotels. Homeless need to be housed in facilities where they can get treatment.
LA needs to enact a windfall profits tax on the television/film/music industries. Everything over 500 thousand should be taxed at 100% in order to help the homeless.
First they need to cut politicians wages in half.
Housing for the illegals who snuck into America!!!!
All that money that California has. Must be nice. Reparations, provide people housing and on and on. No wonder Newsome wants to tax his citizens even after they move out of his hell hole.
I wonder what the over under year is when the media and us Calif residents realize this is not an issue about $? I think we already spend over 50k per person per yr and the problem only gets worse.
You get what you vote for. You got a mokey and the circus will be along soon!
My prediction: the money will have absolutely no impact on homelessness.
As a Texan, I'm 100% for this as well. They get what they deserve.
LA gets the city they vote for. I don't feel sorry for the people in LA at all.
That's fine as long as you're going to provide the mental health & drug rehab they need. Just giving them a place to live isnt enough.
Maybe next we force residents with RVs and Campers to house homeless when they aren’t using them? How about celebrities that have mansions with unused rooms Let’s put the homeless there too!!
LA has 1.3 billion? Hard to believe since they never, ever go to court when a cop is wrongfully accused - they just hand over the money. Pay for it yourselves.
The taxpayers will be getting the bill!
$1.3 billion to provide money for those tasked with failing to house the homeless.
What a joke 🤣
Socialism
Comments on every other article - 'yeah but what are you doing about the homeless?!' Article on something being done about homelessness - 'waste of money', 'Too expensive', 'Not going to work', 'yeah but what about ___' You guys crack me up
the reparations grifters won't be happy about this
Alternately they could free up some housing by not being a sanctuary city benefits magnet.
Oh, you think that the problem is housing?
Everyone should claim exempt on taxes in California until they spend responsibly
it's really just money laundering.
How about if they pay their own damn rent instead
As long as it comes out of Angelenos' pockets, I'm all for it - you get what you vote for.
I feel sorry for the good people still stuck in CA. It's a national embarrassment
You created this. You and your party. Why would anyone live there?
They have already spent $billions and the issue only gets worse. They are building homeless apts that cost us taxpayers $800k per unit. You know some councilmen and their cronies are filling their pockets.
!.3 billion in property soon to be destroyed. If they can't eat it or f--- it, they'll destroy it.
But dont worry about our debt issues or throwing billions to make no difference except worse as been proven over and over
Lol this time it will work
La Mayor wants to steal 1.3 billion dollars from taxpayers who are already struggling with inflation to buy the homeless, many of which are drug addicts, housing so they can shoot up in their own home.
Yes let keep throwing more money at it. People are not incentivized to stop this problem because they keeping getting a check.
Yep, double that next year, because every grifter from cost to cost is coming there for a piece of that action.
First they must be American and pass a drug test......I'm all for helping the homeless but it's not a free payday. They must pass regular drug test and start paying rent after 6 months of employment. Get them jobs! Plan on jobs, even if it's cleaning up your streets!
Because throwing obscene amounts of money at the problem has worked so well in the past.
Biden and Harris it’s time you get these laws passed on protection African American Citizens!!! We are sick of these white people not paying the consequences for their actions in killing or shooting innocent black people!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Do your job!!!
Ok. Now we know where to send the homeless.
They just continue to throw money at the problem. Her whole plan is some massive amount of money. Government beaurocracy ensures that money will be wasted and it will take years to build a single shelter.
Should have been addressed years ago
Fux the 'homeless'!! 90% of them CHOOSE to be that way. They're too lazy to work like the rest of us, and do not have the willpower to kick their drug habit. Can't fix stupid, people. Let them sleep in the own bed they made for themselves.
But then they will just be “homeless” indoors. Nothing will change unless they are given physical rehabilitation, mental health care, and a purpose. That is what they need.
Why do crazy people always look crazy !
No thx
Lololol socks for California.
Great. But what's being done to help struggling people & families before they become homeless?
🤣🤣🤣 California is becoming such a socialist shit hole they will be in debt soon just like that federal government and soon the dollar will be worth nothing because of it.
Your Tax dollars at work doing what the private sector refuses to do..
It’s time for African Americans everywhere to walk away from the plantation of the Democratic Party and thieves like TheRevAl & BLM that steal from them! They haven’t done 💩 for them but take their $ and hold them down! dnc
The first thing the US should do is close the borders. The way it is now migrants will just keep coming here and the need for housing for them will keep increasing unless we close the borders. Why is that hard for biden to do?
Weird how the more money they spend on it the more homeless there is
Lol California tax money…
Double that!
LA in freefall.
It’ll be built at the same pace as the light rail
Haahahahahahahahahah those taxes in LA GOING TO BE INSANE
What about a job?
Ok
Didn’t they do that las year? And the year before that? And so on? Where did all that money go? Here’s a free, tip follow the cash abc🤡
Build it and they will come and continue coming.