California Homeless Grift Exposed (with details)

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

1) start a charity
2) get public money to build apartments
3) charge low rates for 5 years
4) after five years refuse to pay back the public
5) begin charging market rates
6) profit

Who makes out?

Developer, lender, local politician, “charity worker” with fat salary and benefits.

Who goes back to being homeless in 5 years? The intended beneficiary.

That’s the grift ladies and gentlemen. All of a sudden, this headline makes sense.

LA spending up to $837,000 to house a single homeless person

A Los Angeles audit finds that a $1.2 billion program intended to quickly build housing for the city's homeless residents is moving too slowly, and costs are climbing.

apnews.com

 

[THE_DEVIL]

I would call your representative and make him/her aware of this. Otherwise nothing will get done

 

[Scruddy]

There are a lot of very cancerous NGOs that need criminal investigation. The homeless money funnel in CA is clearly by design. You don't "fail" that badly unless it's by intention. They managed to clean the homeless up when the CCP came into town, so it's not a matter of capability but of desire to see the problem actually fixed. It's just not financially prevelant for CA dems to turn off this tap.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Actually agree with OP for once. We have these arrangements in CO as well and they never work as advertised.

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

Very interesting….

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

If you don’t think Gavin Newsom is at minimum *possibly* the head of a vast criminal conspiracy…

You are being naive.

He has the leftist media and entrenched political interests to protect him so no serious investigation will ever occur.

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

Actually agree with OP for once. We have these arrangements in CO as well and they never work as advertised.

Which is why people hate government.

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

If you don’t think Gavin Newsom is at minimum *possibly* the head of a vast criminal conspiracy…

You are being naive.

He has the leftist media and entrenched political interests to protect him so no serious investigation will ever occur.

Let’s go after corruption. Trump, Biden, Newsome, Gaetz, anyone dirty. Let’s do some serious house cleaning.

 

[Scruddy]

Well that's a new one..

 

[Dr. Phil Seuss]

It is an industrial complex at this point. Massive money making machine.

These people will tell you that it is necessary to build $1.2MM apartments for mentally ill drug addicts because shelters are inhumane, while open air Fentanyl markets are clearly the stuff of Mother Theresa.

Just another reason much of the country said no thanks and hired a strong man moron to run the show.

 

[hawksense]

If you don’t think Gavin Newsom is at minimum *possibly* the head of a vast criminal conspiracy…

You are being naive.

He has the leftist media and entrenched political interests to protect him so no serious investigation will ever occur.

I don’t doubt what you are saying. But, if you think it’s limited to radical left wingers, you are naive. Politics is a business of making money and wielding power. All politicians are or become wealthy.

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

I don’t doubt what you are saying. But, if you think it’s limited to radical left wingers, you are naive. Politics is a business of making money and wielding power. All politicians are or become who’re wealthy.

I do not believe it is limited to radical left wingers.

 

[BelemNole]

I knew before I opened the thread that it would be a link to some randos tweet. It’s all op posts.

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

I knew before I opened the thread that it would be a link to some randos tweet. It’s all op posts.

 

[BelemNole]

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Well that proves me wrong! I mean if “Diana Dukes” says so it must be true!

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

Well that proves me wrong! I mean if “Diana Dukes” says so it must be true!

1. Can’t lie and get away with it anymore.
2. Can’t control “approved narratives” anymore.
3. Competition.

Try and refute it.

 

[BelemNole]

1. Can’t lie and get away with it anymore.
2. Can’t control “approved narratives” anymore.
3. Competition.

Try and refute it.

lol Elon does all three of those 5 times a day. Dumbass.

 

[Dr. Phil Seuss]

Well that proves me wrong! I mean if “Diana Dukes” says so it must be true!

It is pretty well documented that California has these outrageous price tags to develop apartment style housing for the homeless in an obviously futile effort that doesn’t nearly address the scale of the problem. A real bandaid on a missing limb approach.

Best selling books have been authored on the matter, with the most prominent being from a man who used to work for Maxine Waters who ran for governor. The approach today has been called “harm reduction” — delusional people think it is best to pretend try to give them all 1 bed apartments, lest they suffer the humiliations of a shelter. Let them shoot fen fen on the street and shit on the sidewalk, it is their right to be free and spread disease with dignity. Who are we, John Q. Public, to tell them to sleep and shit inside?

Hard for a reasonable man to assess what is going on out there and see these people entrenched in these housing deals as doing anything other than profiteering

 

[BelemNole]

It is pretty well documented that California has these outrageous price tags to develop apartment style housing for the homeless in an obviously futile effort that doesn’t nearly address the scale of the problem. A real bandaid on a missing limb approach.

Best selling books have been authored on the matter, with the most prominent being from a man who used to work for Maxine Waters who ran for governor. The approach today has been called “harm reduction” — delusional people think it is best to pretend try to give them all 1 bed apartments, lest they suffer the humiliations of a shelter. Let them shoot fen fen on the street and shit on the sidewalk, it is their right to be free and spread disease with dignity. Who are we, John Q. Public, to tell them to sleep and shit inside?

Hard for a reasonable man to assess what is going on out there and see these people entrenched in these housing deals as doing anything other than profiteering

Well, I mean I live here and work in the industry, but you guys have some tweets from randos on Twitter, so it must be true.

 

[Dr. Phil Seuss]

Well, I mean I live here and work in the industry, but you guys have some tweets from randos on Twitter, so it must be true.

Im out in SF for work a week every month too. I just gave you something more than tweets, and you know who Michael Schellenberger is if you live there and work in industry. I read his book, lot of hard data on this matter, and on the money being made on this crisis. But by all means, continue pretending that none of this is really happening because some notorious wanker MAGA poster here provides some random fuel to ignite the discussion.

If you think California’s approach to providing legally mandated housing to the homeless is not only adequately scaled, but sound and reasonably priced and not a profiteering endeavor, we can agree to disagree.

 

[BelemNole]

Im out in SF for work a week every month too. I just gave you something more than tweets, and you know who Michael Schellenberger is if you live there and work in industry. I read his book, lot of hard data on this matter, and on the money being made on this crisis. But by all means, continue pretending that none of this is really happening because some notorious wanker MAGA poster here provides some random fuel to ignite the discussion.

If you think California’s approach to providing legally mandated housing to the homeless is not only adequately scaled, but sound and reasonably priced and not a profiteering endeavor, we can agree to disagree.

I am aware there is a problem, but the maga belief that it’s unique to CA is as silly as anything op posts. Housing in CA is expensive. It was under Republican leadership and it is under democratic leadership.
Everything in the US is profiteering. This is what end stage capitalism looks like.

 

[1inamillion]

Well that proves me wrong! I mean if “Diana Dukes” says so it must be true!

Use your own brain. You know it's true.