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L.A.’s Homeless Population Grew 13 Percent Since Last Year’s Count — and Is Likely Already Worse
LA is past the point of no return. Mental illness and drug abuse plague a significant portion of the homeless. These problems are not cheap to fix. They’re also not easy to fix when you allow an individual the option to continue refusing care.
If you don’t like what you see, get out now. It will only get worse.
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L.A.’s Homeless Population Grew 13 Percent Since Last Year’s Count — and Is Likely Already Worse
Lived in Amsterdam for nearly three years, it is not a fair comparison with Los Angeles. The entire country of Holland has the population of LA County. The Netherlands has extremely strict immigration and employment laws, you can not simply "show up" and move to that country at will. There is no temperate Mediterranean climate like LA, you will freeze your ass off if you pitch a tent. Holland is also scaling back their "social safety net", the ratio of people on disability or the government dole is overwhelming those who work and actually contribute to the system. The Dutch reputation for "tolerance" has started to wear thin.
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California Lawmakers, Trying to Stop Evictions, Still Won’t Cancel Rent
Not sure if Curbed LA is dumb or brilliant…. They sure get a lot of views and comments when they write these trash articles based entirely on false information. The unemployed are making an EXTRA $600 per week through the pandemic. LAPD is hiring if anybody is looking for a job!
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L.A.’s Homeless Population Grew 13 Percent Since Last Year’s Count — and Is Likely Already Worse
Okay I’ve changed my stance. We shouldn’t continue to dump money into building apartments or temporary housing without other dramatic, systemic changes.
@LADude
@LosFeliz$ean
Clearly working within the existing market is not possible. We must:
A) Freeze public funds for building apartments for the homeless
and
B) Create a Housing Demand Tax (+20% property tax for non-owner-occupied properties) with funds directed towards Housing Scholarships and Repairing Homelessness
and
C) Upgrade each plot of land within the Central Business District of LA (north of I-10, south of the mountains, west of SR-101) one level: R1 → R2 | R2 → RD2 | RD2 → R3 | R3 → R4. If you build and occupy the maximum allowed housing units on your land, you no longer must pay the Housing Demand Tax, and your Property Taxes are waived for 3 years.
Watch how quickly financially incentivizing housing growth and appropriately charging those who do not upgrade their properties results in dramatically more housing units. More supply to equal demand = lower costs = less homelessness = public funds to combat homelessness are not subsidizing private capital, and are thus used efficiently.
Until up-zoning and financial incentives occur, freeze all public funds for building homeless facilities or housing.
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Glendale Mid-Century Near 244-Acre Open-Space Preserve Asks $1.3M
Face palm
lwl is a never ending source of bizarre logic 
Shulius , great story, but all there is to know about " 1530 Remah Vista Drive" is that it was built in 1941 and google shows nothing but a lovely wall, but being a midwesterner myself I can see where a young serviceman in the 1940s would be blown away about everything LA and the surrounding area
Thanks for sharing that 
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L.A.’s Homeless Population Grew 13 Percent Since Last Year’s Count — and Is Likely Already Worse
Building homes or using hotels is a way to temporarily contain the homeless so authorities can assess the problem of each individual – because homelessness is a symptom of many different types of problems. The greatest strategic issue is perhaps that SO many homeless WANT to be homeless. It’s a lifestyle they have chosen, and they do not want an apartment or a job, and often do not trust city government to give them something – care, shelter, money, etc.
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L.A.’s Homeless Population Grew 13 Percent Since Last Year’s Count — and Is Likely Already Worse
Big part of the problem with housing is cost to build… if woke liberals want to see more affordable housing, they need to allow more housing to be built (and allow policies that minimize the red tape and litigation involved.) From what I’ve seen, a lot of these people in LA are fighting for just the opposite, claiming that if we scale back exclusionary zoning it’ll lead to more speculation and gentrification (as if flippers aren’t already doing that already.)
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L.A.’s Homeless Population Grew 13 Percent Since Last Year’s Count — and Is Likely Already Worse
LA chose to go the route of zero enforcement of vagrancy laws and zero mental health assistance.
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California Lawmakers, Trying to Stop Evictions, Still Won’t Cancel Rent
Or property taxes. Somehow property taxes were due in full on April 10 without exception and with penalties for late payments and so forth. So the government won’t live with the same provisions they expect property owners to live with.
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California Lawmakers, Trying to Stop Evictions, Still Won’t Cancel Rent
the flipside is they should improve their skills or move to one of the many cheaper places in this country.
No right to live in LA