After Luigi maybe liberals are going to change their minds about guns?
All of these California homeless projects I have read about seem to be massively inefficient, not unlike that one stall bathroom they built in a park that cost $3m.
27b divided by 21,000 people helped is $1.3m spent per homeless helped which is insane. Maybe some of that infrastructure that can be reused in the future and those numbers will go down but jesus you might as well just buy existing cheap housing in red states and bus those people over there.
What the fuck.
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Why did you use the wrong numerator?
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Good catch, where did the other $26.3 billion go and how many were helped from that?
It wasnât a hard catch.
Other programs. Are you seriously asking for a comprehensive list in the Californiaâs housing programs right now? How about you look something up before you spout off about bussing people places?
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In reactionary Tweets? Posts on NextDoor?
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Who exactly is getting âpurity tested?â What does that even mean? All Iâve seen my entire lifetime are the Dems tacking to the right and getting smoked. Progressives in the party like DSA candidates constantly get sidelined by the DNC in favor of centrists, the NYT and WaPo op-ed pages are fully controlled by reactionary clowns. From my perspective, no one gets purity tested more savagely than left-of-center voices. Hell, look at how Claudine Gay got fired at the behest of Chris Rufo, with the mainstream media falling completely in line.
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huh? there have been an unlimited number of articles/video in mainstream press about Californiaâs inefficient spending and results.
In the 2021-22 fiscal year, when the homeless population was estimated to be 172,000, California spent $7.2 billion, which equated to nearly $42,000 per homeless individual.
I didnât make any claims on which side was being purity tested. It clearly goes both directions.
Ok, what should California have spent per homeless individual and how much of that was on cops and jails?
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I straight up donât know who you think is getting purity tested or what âpurity testingâ means to you.
Looking up some shit about copsâŚLA has a $13B police budget and 9000 cops. Thatâs over $1.4 million per cop. Using the $737m/21k homeless shelter number, that could have helped get 371000 homeless people into housing, ie all the homeless people - just for the cops in Los Angeles. Letâs bus them to red states.
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Categorizing people as âotherâ based on one or two differences of opinion.
Mostly what i have seen in the media is something like âwe spent 3 years building these 24 units at a cost of $745,000 per unit and there is now a waitlist of 356,230 people for itââŚ
Iâm looking into your 21,000 people statistic:
A city website that tracks results says âmore than 21,000 peopleâ have been moved indoors since December 2022, and more than 5,000 have found permanent housing.
Not 100% sure but from googling but it doesnât sound greatâŚ
(The Center Square) - New data released by the City of Los Angeles suggests Mayor Karen Bassâs signature âInside Safeâ homelessness reduction policy, which pays for hotel rooms for homeless individuals as they search for longer term housing, costs $17,009 per individual per month.
Inside Safe, which received a $250 million boost in the fiscal year 2023-2024 budget, has social workers offer homeless individuals living on the streets free stays at hotels as they transition them into longer-term housing.
Having spent $32,619,694 through June 30, 2023 on 57,533 nights of rooms in hotels, the cost per homeless individual served comes out to $567 per night, or $17,009 per month.
Hmm⌠yeah, I think they should explore just buying houses in red states + bus tickets + spending moneyâŚ
I donât see the Second Amendment being repealed any time soon so itâs definitely a mistake to cede firearm ownership to RWNJs, especially since itâs so common for them to fantasize about hunting down liberals when âshit hits the fanâ. I bought a rifle and a handgun and took a gun safety course earlier this month.
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https://invisiblepeople.tv/inside-safe-las-costly-and-ineffective-approach-to-homelessness/
Honestly, just sounds like California is the worst place on earth to be homeless because itâs the most expensive place on Earth to live which creates a feedback loop.
If cops cost $1.4m each and one stall park bathrooms cost $1.7m each and motel rooms for homeless cost $567/night then it makes sense to just pay people to leave to more affordable locations.
60 degrees in the winter vs -10 makes it one of the best in the USA.
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Why donât you run some numbers on your plan and spell out the details? Even if you hire someone to go to skid row with cash and give everyone, say $50k, if they promise to move out of state, youâre still going to have to pay that person.
California is 34th in spending per capita on homeless people.
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