A grand opening of Weingart Tower will have 278 units to shelter the homeless. Hooray!?
ABC News reports New high-rise building to house homeless in $600K units in downtown Los Angeles
There are 278 units in the 19-story development known as the Weingart Tower. It’s intended to help people currently without shelter on Skid Row and it will be L.A.’s largest permanent support housing project.
The building will have an entire floor of offices for case workers, in addition to a list of impressive amenities: a gym, art room, music room, computer room and library.
Residents will enjoy six common balconies and a café.
It’s considered affordable housing, but the cost to build this type of project still adds up. Each unit costs nearly $600,000 and it’s being funded by taxpayers.
The $165 million project is receiving permanent financing from Proposition HHH, which voters overwhelmingly passed in 2016. The new tower is also receiving state housing funds and $56 million in state tax credits.
Several elected officials, including L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, attended a grand opening ceremony at for the building.
Building Tour
Beyond Insane Math
This is beyond insane. NBC news reports There are 75,518 people are homeless in the county, and 46,260 in the city of Los Angeles, an increase from the 69,144 in the county, and 41,980 the city from 2022 as of Jan 23, 2023.
$600,000 * 278 = $166,800,000. That’s $166.8 million. And that does not include free property taxes, case workers, maintenance, utilities, insurance, food, police, clothes, doormen, or medical care.
If the county were to shelter the 75,518 homeless, the cost would be $45,310,800,000. That’s $45.3 billion, again excluding free property taxes, case workers, maintenance, utilities, insurance, food, police, clothes, doormen, or medical care.
And it would not stop there. Every homeless person in the state would move their tent to LA to participate.
Affordable Housing
This dear woke fans is what’s known as “affordable housing”.
Taxes have to rise to accommodate such stupidity. It makes me angry just thinking about this. For what? Does the city think this will cure the homeless problem?
Most of these people are some combination of drug addicts, alcoholics, mentally unstable, and physically unfit to ever work. And even if they did work, they would not be living in $600,000 units.
California Proposes Restraining Orders to Stop Thieves
More and more headlines look as if they are from the Babylon Bee. Let’s discuss the latest idiocrasy from la-la land.
On June 17,I commented Hoot of the Day: California Proposes Restraining Orders to Stop Thieves
What’s going on in California is beyond insane.
Also see Twenty Percent of California Lives in Poverty, What’s Going On?
Meanwhile, working people are struggling.
Angry Renters
Hard working people are struggling to make ends meet due to rising inflation. And here we are offering $600,000 “affordable” units plus free food, medical care, etc. to drug addicts.
For discussion of angry renters please see Why Angry Renters Will Decide the Election, Take II
Think of the poor, nearly broke worker who gets up every day in his tiny apartment and drives a long commute to work eight hours a day so that he can pay for free healthcare for illegal migrants and $600,000 units for the homeless.
Those that are fed up with housing homeless drug addicts need to leave California and move to a red state.
Homelessness is one of those problems you can throw all the money at it you want and still never solve it.
Im for government helping but it seems its going to far in some cases. Imo its the governments job to provide proper conditions so people can be successful if they put the effort in and make good decisions.
Dealing with homeless i would think as more something churches should handle. Seeing how they are tax free and all.
These people on the streets need to go to work, hauling trash, lawn service, or some type manual labor and pay their own way.
Yeah, but soon every 18 year old indigenous male and female will be automatically registered with the draft or Selective Service: welcome to the Matrix and Skynet. Thanks to the 13th amendment, punishments like forced military service in lieu of jail time does not count as indentured servitude or slavery when punished for the crime of failing to show up for selective service to the state. No more homeless. Slick,hey. Of course Gavin’s well domiciled children and social/economic class among their walled and gated mansions etc., will be exempt from such selective service, as usual. I suspect the future draft riots will exceed the New York draft riots of 1863 while France was romping through Mexico under Napoleon 111. .
Jasa is a sunken sub, the Kursk. Nasrallah will respond if Israel invades Lebanon.
Iran returned to the side line. Col MickyG and Scott Ritter : the end is near. They are noise. Filter them.
You posted to the wrong article.
“x due to rising inflation. And here we are offering $600,000 “affordable” units….”
The reason for the former, is specifically that America has reached a level of retardation and incompetence so staggering, that cheaply slapped together shoeboxes can be passed off as $600,000 units.
No doubt, CA is ground zero Idiotopia Uber Alles. I doubt anyone would argue that. But bickering like stunted children and socialist trash over exactly “who” should “get to live” in these insults to intelligence, vs. who “should not”, is vastly more fundamentally retarded than even CA could ever hope to be.
Anywhere even halfway competently governed: by the time such pure commodity apartments are 20yo, the units would be $60K. Or abandoned altogether, ready to be homesteaded anew by anyone who cared to. That they are not, is why “Hard working people are struggling to make ends meet…”
In that other socialist dystopia in The America’s; it’s 50s cars which are propped up to become artificially “valuable” “investments” by their totalitarian idiot government. Here; in CA but also everywhere else: It’s instead falling down, roach infested ratholes; which noone not flat out retarded enough to fall for the full “ownership society” idiocy would consider even for a storage unit; which serve the same (dys)function.
Covering up enough space to serve as a dwelling, is insanely cheap, compared to the value-add/output of a worker with access to today’s levels of accumulated capital. Which is just another way of saying: Housing is insanely cheap. ALL the 90+% of current nominal/headline cost above “Insanely Cheap”; is not due to cost of housing. But instead, due solely to the cost of maintaining the single most invasive and destructive government wealth redistribution racket in all of history. That’s all there is. Sitting around bickering about exactly “who” should have one of these shoeboxes redistributed to him vs someone else, has got to be the epitome of pointless flaunting of economic illiteracy.
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Oh well, I just wanted to put up a gif of eating popcorn. Watching Cali circle the bowl is a fun show
Just another money laundering scheme.
The California Homeless Industrial Complex. How many developers and especially “charitable” NGOs are raking in the dollars on buildings such as this one, plus all the ancillary services and consulting gigs? Where do all the billions go? Graft and grift and kleptocracy, that’s California for you.
$166M is but a tiny fraction of the cost of bombs being sent to Ukraine and Israel, with no end in sight. Building houses rather than participating in mass destruction seems a better use of resources
it depends who you are building the houses for……..
The entry level Stalinist show how good they are to the poor, the impaired and the homeless.
We went from crack houses to fentanyl buildings.
This is just another grift to reward people who are already wealthy at the expense of taxpayers. Come on guys stop ignoring the elephant in the room! $ going to the 1% at the expense of everyone else.
Materials to build a 12 x 16 shed with a loft on a concrete slab is under $6,000. To finish it with insulation, drywall, wiring, mini-bathroom, mini-HVAC, mini-kitchen, etc. adds another $18,000 or so. 2 men to build it in 4 weeks at $30/hr for each man is $10,000. Total is far less than $40k per unit (excluding land) for a 300 sq. ft. mini house.
“Total is far less than $40k per unit (excluding land) for a 300 sq. ft. mini house.”
Yup. It may; although I wouldn’t put is past some Chinese builder prove me wrong if he could deliver at some scale; be a bit more expensive in earthquake ridden LA. But $40K is definitely in he ballpark.
All the remaining $560K, is NOT cost of housing. But instead just the cost the totalitarian-idiotocracy-going-by-the-name-America’s currently favorite pure wealth redistribution racket. $560K worth, stolen by the terror state for the benefit of it’s favored useful-idiot, produce-nothing connecteds. From people productive enough to create such value add to begin with. Hence directly adding that much to the cost of doing business here, for those productive people.
Imposing that sort of completely arbitrary cost on productive people and enterprise, is how you ensure your productive citizens are so hogtied and crippled that even Chinese Communists can walk all over them, in every area, without hardly even trying.
Well said!
Someone needed to unload a building on taxpayer expense.
I give it 6 months to a year before the place is completely trashed.
Yes! See “Cabrini-Green” and “Robert Taylor Homes” housing projects in Chicago. The residents changed these high-rise apartments into a living hellscape of crime, graffiti, violence, and public urination. They were eventually torn down.
But the poor, nearly broke workers then vote for more of the same come election day. And it they aren’t voting for it, why are they still there?
The reason is that most don’t find the time to be informed, feel powerless or they are comfortable and don’t want to rock their boat.
Common Mish, see the bright side too!
Some politician will now get a return favor from the builder – maybe some campaign donation to perpetuate this lovely situation!
California has become the epitome of stupidity . . . Just wait a little longer till the infrastructure starts to fail …. Roads, bridges, sewage, drinking water and energy … then taxes, will have to rise even more. It’s a Catch-22.
“Just wait a little longer till the infrastructure starts to fail….”
What do you mean, wait? Even road damage from the 92/94 riots and earthquake isn’t fixed yet….. The place has been falling apart for decades. Power grid, sewers, fire mitigation, ports…. Nothing works anymore. A visitor from Lebanon commented LA reminded him of home.
FWIW these heat advisories are a joke to those that grew up in real heat. I grew up in Houston and it is laughable that 3 consecutive days over 90 degrees are considered a heat wave in the Midwest or Norheast. Meanwhile thee is very little national coverage about flooding on thr gulf coast or coming tropical cyclones. Hope those on the gulf coast and south Florida are able to get to higher ground. None of this is good for anyone.
There is no higher ground in Florida. The state is essentially flat so what’s done for flooding is to open up the canals so they drain faster.
Yeah. This is exactly why I said there will be a huge migration northward into Georgia.
Irony was that while it was up to 17 degrees above average in the northeast the other day, it was down to 24 degrees below average in Montana.
And quite comfortable in the SF Bay Area!
Snowed in Nevada.
Tropical storm Alberto has flooded.some Texas coastal towns.thwt were considered beach towns. Stalled storms that bring floods are going to be the norm in the gulf. The great migration to higher ground will start this year and continue until the coast becomes uninhabitable.
call us when the shuttle lands.
The middle class in California is gone anyway. Guessing the reason they are doing this is because eventually these people will be converted into effectively subsidized workers for jobs that keep up appearances to attract tourists. California will continue to give tax loopholes to preferred businesses. Some of these will be incentivized to hire the homeless. All of it is about keeping up appearances.
There was a family in my $1M neighborhood that drove a Porsche and Lamborghini and was on MediCal and public assistance. They hid all their income and assets in businesses overseas. There simply aren’t enough ways for governments to police everything if everyone cheats. Didn’t Kevin the real estate investor from Shark Tank say that every real estate investor does what Trump did. I’d be willing to bet that all kinds of fraud went up when Trump was president and hasn’t really subsided much. here’s betting that if Trump becomes president again, tax fraud will go to levels unseen and governments will end up bankrupt a lot quicker than bonds can be sold.
“There must be some kind of way outta here
Said the joker to the thief
There’s too much confusion
I can’t get no relief”
–Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower
The cost could be 600K per unit, but the value is far far lower – for the whole area.
Who would want to live in or near a homeless shelter voluntarily? Only progs think that the opportunity creates a gentleman.
The value is actually higher if they are kept off the streets and look like they aren’t homeless. The cost will be made up in tourism alone at places in southern California. Disney and others are probably on board with it bc it will help their business.
Build it and they will come.
I keep hearing that “they” DNC/Democrats will be pushing that Newsome guy to replace Biden when they finally realize that Biden is NOT fit.
Neither guy is fit. Trump got the names of his own supporters and lawyers wrong in multiple speeches.
Funny, I wonder if the downvoters realize Trump can’t even handle his teleprompter these days. Paging Dr Ronny Johnson (sic)
Trump does Need a teleprompter like commie Biden does to say 2 words…lol foooooooooooooool!!
How much is Trump paying to rent out the space in your head?
More likely a Hillary Clinton Gavin Newsom ticket …
I could see this. The super delegates could easily circumvent the will of the voter
Atlas is about to shrug.
More LA liberalism: UP here in the SF Bay Area, this policy is already in place. Police hardly do traffic enforcement any longer. Red light running, excessive speeding and stop sign roll throughs are rampant. Use of cellphones while driving is illegal but no one gets ticketed for doing so. An apparently growing percentage have their windows tinted nearly black (illegal) so that no one can see who is inside. This is also used to ride in the carpool lanes while driving single.
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Los Angeles council OKs study of removing police from traffic enforcement
By Libor Jany
June 13, 2024 3:35 PM PT
Four years ago, after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, reform advocates in Los Angeles called for an end to the city’s reliance on police. Some urged city leaders to start by taking sworn officers out of traffic enforcement.
They cited persistent racial disparities in stops, searches and arrests, the result of what some said were failed crime-suppression strategies in South L.A. that alienated generations of Black and brown Angelenos. They called on the city to limit how often police pull people over for low-level offenses and to start imagining a future in which unarmed city workers would take over most traffic duties.
This week, the City Council authorized a study to figure out how to do just that — while adding more speed bumps, roundabouts and other street modifications to reduce speeding and unsafe driving.
“I think the city of Los Angeles can lead the nation,” said Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, one of the proposal’s early champions.
In a 13-0 vote, the council directed city transportation staff and other departments to come back within 90 days with feasibility reports about the cost and logistics of a series of proposals including: creating unarmed civilian teams to respond to certain traffic issues and investigate accidents; limiting fines in poorer communities; and ending the use of stops for minor infractions such as having expired tags or air fresheners hanging from the rear-view mirror.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-13/los-angeles-council-oks-study-of-removing-police-from-traffic-enforcement
The police stopped doing traffic enforcement here in the LA area long ago. Only motorcycle cops and highway patrol. Traffic violation stops catch a lot of bigger crimes.
They do checkpoints regularly tho where they’ll take your car if your papers are not in order or if you are intoxicated.
Personally, I’m happy to hear they’ve stopped giving out traffic infractions. Getting tickets of all kind (speeding, red light, rolling stops etc) is a huge waste of police time and effort that would be better spent catching actual criminals.
One of the reasons people don’t like the Police is that the only encounter the average person has with the Police are negatives ones over traffic violations (essentially hassling civilians for money). There are no positive Police encounters anymore (ie the 50s model of a cop walking the beat, saying hello to people in the neighborhood etc).
A Most Dangerous Assumption: Mining the Future to Spend More TodayWhat the cheerleaders are actually claiming is the process of adding zeroes to “money” is limitless, but there are limits on the utility of devaluing currency, too.
How prosperous would the world be if we hadn’t collectively borrowed and spent $315 trillion—-333% of global GDP? We all know the answer–not very prosperous at all, for production, consumption and profits would all be mere fractions of their current totals if we could not borrow money and could only spend cash on hand. Global Debt Hit $315 Trillion In Q1 2024.
All this money that’s been spent/invested has effectively been mined / extracted from future resources, labor and capital. The basic idea is that the interest that must be paid on this debt will be paid out of earnings generated by the productive use of resources, labor and capital in the future. Once the debt matures and the principle must be returned to the lender / bond purchaser, this principle must also be mined / extracted from assets available in the future.
Mining / extraction is the appropriate analogy because nothing is unlimited in the real world. Imagination–yes, it’s unlimited. Denial and delusion: yes, both are limitless. But tangible resources that can be recovered at costs the economy can bear, productive labor and capital are not limitless. If we mine the future too intensively, there won’t be enough left in the future to spend/invest at the level we enjoy today.
The fundamental assumption behind mining the future is that the pool of resources, labor and capital will continue expanding forever, effortlessly funding the interest and principle due on today’s borrowing and leaving more than enough to consume and invest in the future.
But what happens when the resources, labor and capital available to mine in the future shrink? If the productive economy contracts, there will be fewer resources and less labor and capital available to split between servicing the ballooning debt and the consumption / investment needed to support the future economy.
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/a-most-dangerous-assumption-mining
What a dystopian future we have left for our children. I did not live this way. Zero debt here. I stopped voting for this sh!t long ago
If everyone lived without debt… the global economy would collapse….
Take the car industry as an example… how many people are able to pay cash for a new car?
Consider what would happen to the car industry if credit was not permitted.
Then examine the housing industry.
The problem is not so much debt… it’s that we live on a finite planet… with finite resources… we use up the easy stuff first… then all we are left with is the high hanging fruit…
And when it comes to energy … the high cost of extraction (you need energy to extract energy)… leaves much less nett energy for economic activity.
At some point the shit show implodes…. we are very close to that moment
See https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-perfect-storm
Prices would collapse without loans. So would commodity prices.
“If everyone lived without debt… the global economy would collapse….”
Leaving “everyone” both massively wealthier and better off.
The only exceptions being some gaggle of wealth destroying bankster rabble who contributes nothing yet spends/squanders the value add of others like drunken sailors.
You don’t think that if the financial system collapsed… the global supply chains would implode… and everyone would starve?
I recommend you read this https://www.verywellmind.com/an-overview-of-the-dunning-kruger-effect-4160740
As you are suffering from that
2%, tops, of the “global financial system” is settlement systems and strictly necessary trade finance.
ALL the rest, is purely pointless consequences of living in a world where 90+% of all financial outcomes are determined solely by debasement theft, instead of by any kind of merit.
It wouldn’t take more than weeks, to get 80+% of necessary functionality back on line, even if “collapse” referred to physically razing the stuff. Which it wouldn’t: The useful pieces would still be valuable, even absent the theft rackets. Being useful even absent being propped up by massive theft, is pretty much the definition of being useful at all.
You win the Dunning Kruger prize for today!!
Like most, Smith is good at writing complaints about everything that is wrong with everything but short on writing about workable solutions, which is why I dropped my subscription to his Substack.
We are in a major transition period right now. Once automation and robots get rolling then everything is going to be free. The robots will do all the work, all the repairs, all the construction, all the maintenance and humans will lounge around living hedonistically off of their work. That is the only way our “money for nothing and chicks for free” society can continue.
did you forget the sarc tag> Surely you are not serious….
If so I can understand why you stopped that follow — you prefer to remain in DelusiSTAN…. and you cannot handle the Truth.
Once automation and robots get rolling then everything is going to be free. The robots will do all the work, all the repairs, all the construction, all the maintenance and humans will lounge around living hedonistically off of their work. That is the only way our “money for nothing and chicks for free” society can continue.
Isn’t that what I said?
Once automation and robots get rolling then everything is going to be free. The robots will do all the work, all the repairs, all the construction, all the maintenance and humans will lounge around living hedonistically off of their work. That is the only way our “money for nothing and chicks for free” society can continue. (sarc)
There – I fixed it for you
California Dreamin ….
Global debt ? Global debt is $0 because it all gets netted out by equity which is also $0. The accounting system is a gimmick. Who exactly does the globe owe money to ? Martians?
“How prosperous would the world be if we hadn’t collectively borrowed and spent $315 trillion—-333% of global GDP? We all know the answer–not very prosperous at all, for production, consumption and profits would all be mere fractions of their current totals if we could not borrow money and could only spend cash on hand.”
Absolute,100% pure, economically illiterate hogwash. Trivially so.
Prosperity is a result of REAL wealth. Not nominal numbers on paper pieces.
No amount of printing and “lending” of paper pieces increases real wealth. The workforce remains the same, farmland the same, oil deposits the same etc.
Were it not for the debt/printing; real wealth/prosperity would be no different. Only the price tags affixed to each barrel of oil, each bushel of wheat, each NBA forward, Uber driver, nurse and software engineer, would be nominally lower.
The only thing all those trillions in debt and inflation has effected, is driving up the nominal prices of stuff. It hasn’t added any more oil, nor anything else. That is, assuming you suffer from Krugman-syndrome macromyopia.
If you look even the tiniest bit below the headline “macro” number, you very quickly also recognize that: While total real wealth hasn’t changed, all that debt and printing, has very effectively transferred the nominal ownership the real wealth: From those who mined, grew and created it; and to those with preferred access to the fresh print and credit. Who have used that access to outbid everyone else for “ownership” of everything.
That’s the only real, meaningful change that all those $315 trillion has effected: Pure redistribution. From those able to create wealth, to leeches in orbit around the money printers and their privileged bankster-trash friends. Nothing else. Nothing positive, in any way, shape nor form, has come of it. Just theft from productive people, in order to hand the loot to the connected, useless, deadweight leeches who today “owns” everything.
What it has done is offset the impact of increasingly expensive energy.
HIGH PRICED OIL DESTROYS GROWTH
According to the OECD Economics Department and the International Monetary Fund Research Department, a sustained $10 per barrel increase in oil prices from $25 to $35 would result in the OECD as a whole losing 0.4% of GDP in the first and second years of higher prices. http://www.iea.org/textbase/npsum/high_oil04sum.pdf
HOW HIGH OIL PRICES WILL PERMANENTLY CAP ECONOMIC GROWTH
For most of the last century, cheap oil powered global economic growth. But in the last decade, the price of oil production has quadrupled, and that shift will permanently shackle the growth potential of the world’s economies. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-09-23/how-high-oil-prices-will-permanently-cap-economic-growth
“What it has done is offset the impact of increasingly expensive energy.”
Increasingly expensive energy means scarcer energy. Supply and demand.
How on earth is arbitrary printing of debt notes and dollar bills supposed to reduce oil scarcity? Does printing dead guys faces on paper, magically increase oil in the ground anywhere? Or are you supposed to stuff the debt notes in your fuel tank?
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On planet real world, printing money does not add ANY new real goods. Hence adds NO real value. Hence does not increase total real wealth AT ALL.
Instead, all that printing money and attendant debt does, is create new; entirely unearned since they were just printed up; CLAIMS on THE EXACT SAME stock of real wealth as before. While total real wealth remains the same.
Hence, the only real difference becomes: Those who are, arbitrarily, handed preferential access to all this unearned purchasing power which has just been printed up out of thin air, now gets to claim, aka “own” a larger share of the total real wealth than they would absent the debt printing. Which, since total real wealth remains the same, means that those who are not given such preferential access as a result of the printing, now have a smaller share of the same real wealth. That’s just arithmetic.
IOW: It all nothing but pure, 100%, nothing else whatsoever, crass redistribution. Nothing else at all. Just crass theft. With not one single redeeming quality, not one “yes but”, not one anything. Just simple, straight up burglaring. Of 90+% of Americans. 100% of productive Americans. Solely for the “benefit” of useless trash with no qualities at all, aside from closeness to The Fed and the totalitarian garbage-state junta presiding over it.
The same way debt allows people to own big ticket items… like houses….
Hence why; in virtual lockstep with the debt explosion post Nixon taking the once-was-country full retard: Homelessness; as in specifically not being allowed to own houses; is pretty much the only thing which has also grown….
Again: How many new houses pop out of the Fed’s printing presses as a result of printing dead guys’ faces on paper?
Absent debt: Houses would be cheaper. That’s it. Sufficiently cheaper, that MORE people would be able to afford them, than what is the case in the current kleptocratic hellhole where debasement theft and handing of the loot to a few illiterates, have instead allowed the latter to outbid more useful people for houses.
I agree, this is insane. Similar initiatives are occurring in the north of the state in the liberal enclave of the SF Bay Area.
San Mateo county, where I live, passed a new regulation a few months back that any derelict person can come into the county and IMMEDIATELY qualifies for government assistance of all kinds w/o any waiting period at all! This includes food, transportation and housing assistance.
If you live anywhere in the USA and are homeless, “down on your luck” or tired of working at menial jobs, you are crazy if you don’t come to San Mateo county and demand your guaranteed support and assistance.
One of the major reasons this is occurring is because everyone who has owned a house for 10 year sor more is or is close to a millionaire on paper and many make $10k or more monthly. As such, they feel they need to share their good fortune with the less fortunate and so vote for candidates that are part of and/or support the AID INDUSTRY.
Now I know where to go if I have a bad run of luck
Yurts cost between 5-17k. Put them in a part of town with lots of open space and with the money saved, hire resources to help seperate out those with mental issues, drug addictions and those that just want to live feral. If society is helping you, you don’t get to live by the beach. You live in the inland empire.
Help the ones you can help, get rehab for those that need it and help get people back on their feet.
for those rejecting society/feral, they become quasi full time residents as living on the streets and river embankments needs to be made illegal.
Stackable Yurts? That is all that makes sense in land expensive CA.
Nah, just set em up in fields the city can rent from developers. No need to place these things downtown.
Los Angeles is the epicenter of peak craziness in the U.S.
Existing homeowners fight building ANY new housing. The politicians have created a maze of regulations and fees making it expensive and difficult to build housing. Wall Street is investing in housing here.
A lot of the homeless were not crazy and drug addicted when they became homeless. One severe medical problem with inadequate savings with no family or a spouse that bails and one is homeless. A couple months living on the street in LA will make you crazy and drug addicted.
The bulk of the existing housing stock was built when the average square feet was 1500-1800. Nowadays most new homes are pushing 3000. We need a lot of low sq ft starter homes and it will not happen.
Sadly I think we will have to go back to the Feds building housing for the working poor. $800k homeless units are a sick corrupt joke that will do absolutely nothing to solve the homeless problem.
I am helping a young autistic friend to keep him off the street. Trying to get services for him is difficult to say the least. Meanwhile we are giving preferential food, housing, and medical assistance to illegals here in LA County. It is beyond infuriating. I stopped voting for most Democrats here 25 years ago.
The attitudes of existing homeowners is also infuriating. They happened to be on the right side of a Fed put to bail out the mortgage industry and monetization, but think they are better and smarter than renters. Their homes have lots of empty bedrooms that could be rented. Their willingness to screw the younger generations does not bode well for our long term future.
There is large percent of homeless that are unadopted orphans that got thrown out when they aged out. it’s incredibly sad.
As for housing, yurts in low cost areas makes sense and allows them to get resources/training/meds to get them self sufficient.
I live in the LA area as well. Unfortunately, the homeless industry is now attempting to maintain the industry instead of solving the problem. If you vote for Dems in LA, you’re a rube.
Yes the foster kids. My family took in foster kids when I was growing up and there were so many sad stories. It usually took the kids 6 months with us before they could laugh and play with us they were so traumatized. Sadly many end up in the sex trade if not homeless or both.
And yeah the homeless issue is being treated like a big pork barrel for the politicians to feast in.
As a teenager I worker for a man who owned very substandard housing where many people lived. They lied in wooden shacks heated by a coal burning potbelly stove, five small buildings shared one central water faucet and two outhouses near central Indiana. I painted the small houses, they had cracks in the boards and they had one plug and two hanging lightbulbs. The people living there were poor white people, but found them to be happy. They would do day work when they could find it. Todays housing codes have eliminated all substandard housing creating the present housing shortage.
WOW didn’t know stuff like that existed growing up in a wealthy suburb of NYC / Nassau County, NY
My mom grew up in rural Ontario, Canada on a small farm without electricity or indoor plumbing. I’ve heard the stories from her, my aunts/uncles and my grandparents about those days.
She was 9 before they moved south to a non-farm house that had indoor plumbing and electricity. This was in the 1940s for a time reference. So some people into the 1950’s in rural Canada didn’t have electricity/indoor plumbing.
Penultimate virtue signal
How many working poor will be on the borderline of being unable to afford rent that will then become homeless once their landlord passes on the extra tax burden that will result from funding these luxury druggie apartments?
And with a few hundred homeless persons per constructed druggie apartments then who decides the priority of getting a golden ticket/key for these apartments? Favouritism? Racial quota? Quota for LGBTQ+ with each of those letters demanding priority over the other letters?
And I’m sure these will be model tenants that won’t infect the place with bed bugs, burn furniture, smash fittings, steal the copper wiring or get into conflict with others.
Don’t be white. You’re last in the line.
You forgot to mention that each units comes with a free Tesla.
Elon needs all the help he can get (from the government)
The estimated Cost to Each U.S. Taxpayer towards the combined Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syriia is $8,200 plus the resulting interest on the national debt. Turning Plowshares into Swords is not cheap, and neither is visa versa. Perhaps equal to 70 Los Angeles taxpayers contributions to these wars per unit. Not saying either is a good idea, but it is an interesting way to look at the numbers.
Great Shades of Pruitt-Igo! How short their memories.
Do they have a room to shoot up in and do other illicit drugs? That’s a must. There should also be a concierge service. Stop discriminating against the … errr … well, not illegal …and certainly not aliens, they don’t have space ships … those nice people coming to America to work hard and make America great again! Oh, can’t say that either …
Well, SF is known for having delivered drugs and alcohol to their homeless addicts that they were housing during Covid under the rational that they were preventing the spread of Covid.
What’s wrong with trailers? $40-50k and house a whole family.
Yurts are 1/4 of that.
That sounds as sustainable , as the floating Gaza Pier …
I know. They can become called The Projects. Perfect.
Expensive ghetto, I bet it gets trashed.
Number two of residents who will use the ellipticals: zero.
The location of this place is literally steps away from the infamous Cecil Hotel!
The Cecil itself is now closed and likely will get this kind of make over soon at tax payer expense. Maybe the long term goal is to eminent domain out the homeless from Skid Row.
This roach hotel will attract more homeless to la, la land. It’s cheaper than a new jail.
I recently bought a new 2 BR condo on the sound in Tacoma, Washington. There is a water walk on the sound, so it is a great location. The cost was $950K. The non-soundview units sold for $600K As usual, the government wastes money. Beyond that, the number of unit they built in L.A. is a drop in the chamber pot of homelessness in the city. And, “build it an they will come”.
Just when you think it can’t get any dumber in LA, you find that there is a proposal for the forthcoming ballot to drop the current .25% sales tax for “homeless” which expires in 2027 and replace it with a permanent .50% sales tax….more for the homeless industrial complex forever! Of course, the people of LA are likely stupid enough to support it. See article: https://www.dailynews.com/2024/05/07/backers-of-half-cent-sales-tax-in-la-county-for-housing-seek-a-ballot-measure/#:~:text=Known%20as%20the%20Affordable%20Housing,both%20prevent%20and%20reduce%20homelessness.
The folks in liberal California voted for it. Let them have what they want.
Pricey. Current construction is running in the low $400k per unit range for regular quality apartments (which is why MF permits are down – most projects don’t pencil at today’s asking rents & cost of capital). I can see these would have to be built to a slightly different spec, but $600k even at elevated LA land costs is a lot. I wonder if it’s including some medical/psych/social service infrastructure. That could add a lot.
In my local area, I am watching a build of what is said to be a “Section 8” apartment building. They are trucking in pre-built modules and stacking them on top of each other like a Lego building. In 3 weeks they have assembled a complete 5 story apartment building!
But I wonder how it might hold up in an earthquake? We haven’t had a big one in a long time.
Who is going to be responsible for keeping that place clean? I couldn’t imagine a worse responsibility: Custodian at Bum Tower.
I’m sure it’s a high paying union job with ample PTO and gold plated benefits.
I believe they prefer the term “hobo”.
In 50 years or less, it will be ready for the wrecking ball. Think Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago. Less than ten years after it was built, it was considered a disaster by locals. It was torn down after only 45 years.
Guys in hazmat suits.