Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single homeless person

Post by asdff » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 11:57 PM UTC

djrogers wrote: post #274

2c2c2c wrote: post #242

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always fun to see prop13ers turn themselves into victims over the idea of having to sell their 300% ROI property

It's not about selling the house, it's about being forced to move out of a city / neighborhood they've been in for decades, simply because it got more popular and they can't afford a property tax bill several times higher than their largest mortgage payment ever was.

Post by asdff » Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 12:01 AM UTC

peter303 wrote: post #234

A conservation think tank issued a report saying Denver spends about $400,000 per year per unhoused person. https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/the-economic-footprint-of... But drilling down finds 10% of that is direct budgeted other other 90% indirect like the cost of police sweeps, mental health, etc.

Post by zanderz » Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 12:21 AM UTC

nimbius wrote: post #17

the fact that any housing is getting built is frankly a refreshing turn of events. for people unfamiliar with los angeles, is very much a city of landed gentry. republican legislation designed to curtail rising taxes for elderly residents 40 years ago wound up creating a cloistered elite of land-owners that pay nearly nothing in tax and resist any attempt to create additional housing. They coast on a bubble of six-fi…

Post by pram » Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 1:51 AM UTC

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #197

legitster wrote: post #66

In the last 50 years, cities across the country closed down over 1 million SROs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy ) in an effort to remove slums or just neglect at increasing property value. There are now over half of a million homeless. It's honestly impressive the number is not more. For the 1.2 billion dollars they are spending, if all of the apartments were built to the spec of a roadside mote…

This...is not wrong. Pioneer Square in Seattle used to have a lot of flop houses, part of it being the original "skid row" (logs skid to the saw mill, really muddy and not a desirable place to live). My grandfather in Spokane unwittingly ran a rooming house we cousins called the "empty arms" (inherited from his sister), which housed a lot of people who were just barely getting by. Seattle's flop houses are mostly gon…

Post by dragonwriter » Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 2:06 AM UTC

djrogers wrote: post #273

closeparen wrote: post #217

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No, we are not talking about a homeless shelter or a temporary stopgap, these kinds of units are the "something better" that people in homeless shelters and other temporary stopgaps are in a holding pattern waiting for. Shipping the homeless elsewhere than California's most expensive cities is way outside the Overton window.

> Shipping the homeless elsewhere than California's most expensive cities is way outside the Overton window. Why? Unless you can show proof that most of the homeless in SF and LA are locals who fell on hard times rather than junkies who moved in for better weather and benefits, shipping them out seems completely reasonable.