The lack of affordable housing in a city this rich is a human rights crisis—and yet it is treated by most voters and officials like it’s a nuisance. Homelessness in a city and nation this wealthy is unacceptable. A spike like this is insane. https://lat.ms/31aEHjV
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This column by
@LATstevelopez is appropriately damning, spreading the blame for the 12 percent county-wide rise in homelessness—despite $619 million in city and county taxes poured into housing and services—amongst all levels of elected leadership. https://lat.ms/2KAhJ0711 replies 88 retweets 218 likesShow this thread -
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$619M for 59,000 people experiencing homelessness is really not that much money.
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At $10k each it probably would have been better just to give the money the homeless individually rather than services considering their miserable record in LA.
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$10K each ignores vast distributions in costs. A person with a substance-related illness or who is elderly with dementia is just going to cost a lot more than say, a young LGBT person fleeing an inhospitable household.
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