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It’s kinda stunningly beautiful, the way corporations, police, and their press release repeating “journalists” have people mixing up cause and effect of about a half dozen causes and a half dozen effects. Like if you put what they think are 6 causes on one side, and 6 effects on the other, with lines drawn matching each C to each E, it’s not just that some need to switch sides. It’s that some lines are connecting the wrong two things.
The decidedly unwoke economic and crime policies supported by corporations are what result in the homeless people that we’ve all been assured are dangerous to us. But people are out here thinking that a corporation supporting LGBT means they weren’t fighting against bail reform, and weren’t looking to maximize real estate prices. Meanwhile, corporations get to tell people false reasons for why they’re leaving urban centers, with the bonus that maybe stirring people up over this will result in a fascistic crackdown against massively lied about amounts of free movement and “crime.”
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Can’t read that and not sure I want to but what was the money spent on?
It is not in the article, but the majority appears to be spent on housing, stuff like building and maintaining affordable housing and temporary shelters or subsidizing housing.
Mayor says sweeps have nothing to do with the All Star Game.
Bonus—the already overcrowded understaffed jail gonna be packed this weekend.
So they spent something like $100,000 per homeless person and it didn’t work? Huh?
“Last year was the most deadly year in history for people who were homeless, and now this coming year with this winter, we’re looking at possibly doubling that," he said, noting that winters are extremely cold in Anchorage. “I have a moral imperative here and that is to save lives, and if that means giving them a few hundred dollars for an airline ticket to go where they want to go, I’m going to do that.”
No funding has been approved yet for the relocation program, which also operated last year, but Bronson didn’t anticipate any problems locating the funds. He said about 11 people took the offers last year.
“I think a ticket this morning to Los Angeles is 286 bucks, it cost us $100 plus or minus a few dollars every day to house someone, and we don’t have a place to put them in a large shelter this winter,” he said. “And remember, the objective, and it’s sad that we had to get to this, but we’re here to save lives, that’s my job."
So far this year, 29 people believed to be homeless died in and around Anchorage, surpassing last year’s record of 24, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
Half of the deaths, the paper reported, occurred after the closure of the mass shelter at the George M. Sullivan Arena, which typically hosts sporting and cultural events.
The city moved dozens of its unhoused people to various areas, including a park six miles away when it closed the mass shelter in May.
As of now, there is no shelter large enough to house people during the winter, when temperatures can drop as low as -31 Fahrenheit between November and March.
Aside from the arena’s operating costs and it not being an ideal living space for homeless people, Bronson did not provide other reasons as to why the city could not use it once again as a mass shelter for the winter.
Bronson said the arena needed to return to the public realm.
“It needs to be an entertainment venue,” he told reporters. “We need hockey, rock concerts there, we need to get that back to normal.”
- we must do whatever it takes to save the lives of the homeless
- but obviously not use the arena because we need hockey and rock concerts
- send them to LA, that’s what everybody else does
- LA is a dem-run hellhole that can’t solve its homelessness problem
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Why cant Newsom solve the homeless crisis in California?!?!?!?!
That whole “they come in from elsewhere” is just not true.
Obviously in this case it would be but the vast majority of homeless people in CA became homeless here. The study is very comprehensive.
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For what it’s worth, saying that other places send homeless to California does not contradict the fact that the vast majority of homeless in California became so here. But you’re right, homeless people migrating here is a smaller percentage of the population than I would have imagined, and thus a smaller part of the problem.
Is it accurate to say that the government legally has to house asylum seekers but not homeless Americans?
Taking a wild guess here, I would speculate that this is a jurisdictional thing. The Federal government has one set of obligations with respect to people crossing the national border, state and local governments have a separate set of obligations with respect to housing members of their communities. It may not be ethically rational, but at least there would be some sensible explanation for different treatment.
What a dumbass
Seems like a good practitioner of capitalism and a fine example of entrepreneurialism.
One to watch.
Shit, Amsterdam gets a ton of positive notoriety by showing people their Red Light District.
In America, you have to resign for doing that.
Just a heads up for the normies, the psychos on the right wing are running with the idea that a homeless camp burned down the I10 palette factory with no evidence using a hoogle maps image from 2 years ago.