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atx_aquarian ,
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Going off on a tangent, but are vacancies keeping rent high or are they a result of overpriced rent not responding to market pressure? It seems like vacancies should mean low demand at the current price, which, in my little econ 101 view of the world, should push the price down.

ohmyiv ,
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I work with unhoused populations in L.A. for the past 7 years and have past experience managing a housing provider agency. I currently work at a housing services.

The idea that the communities have “substantial resources” is laughable. It seems like there’s a lot of money, but there really isn’t. My agency is one of the larger agencies in L.A. and we struggle. It’s not even “the heads take all the money in pay”. Nah, there’s just not enough money.

It’s definitely not as easy as “just build more housing”, though I wish it were. Even “housing first” doesnt work well enough and it even backfires quite often.

Newsom’s idea of moving people along doesn’t work either. That’s what was happening before housing first came along and it didn’t help shit.

I will say that substance use issues, physical and mental health need a lot more attention and treatment options that are available to all.

If anyone wants to discuss the issues, feel free to AMA. I’m open to suggestions that’ll make my job easier.

If anyone in the L.A. area wants to help, the following link has connections to jobs at a lot of services providers in L.A. county.:

www.lahsa.org/jobs

MyOpinion ,

Gavin you still have not provided the housing people need you are a failure. Now you wish to tear down the little they have. Disgusting.

DantesFreezer ,

I agree this is likely to cause suffering cause relocating sucks, and there probably isn’t shelter space for these people.

He has a valid point that the camps have a lot of negative impacts. I’ve seen fires started,l in my city, heard horror stories about the conditions that develop.

That said, I don’t know how much better the alternative is.

About housing, I mean, it takes more than a few years to build the tens of thousands of houses needed, and every year the state assembly is doing more to help with building more dwellings and preventing local govt and orgs from blocking construction. I’m not thrilled about response but it seems like they’re doing a lot to help with infill development. I’m not an expert, so feel free to correct me.

Serinus ,

And 10% of those homeless will literally shit in the houses and destroy them. But many more of them could thrive given sufficient help.

You have to be prepared for the first while doing what can be done for the second. It’s a difficult problem, but it gets a lot easier if your goal is to cut it down by half or more instead of eliminating it completely.

Most of the homeless will cooperate with you. They want out too. It’s good for everyone to get those people out. It’s going to take time, and money, and effort.

Dasus ,
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Right on schedule youtu.be/XqF7XojXzd0

nondescripthandle ,

Newsoms been moving rightward since he got more national airtime and I fucking hate it. No good person survives politics, if they were ever even good they either leave, die, or turn into an asshole.

Coach ,

no longer any barrier to local governments utilizing the substantial resources provided by the State, in tandem with federal and local resources, to address encampments with both urgency and humanity

With those “substantial resources” and a sense of “humanity”, you’d think they’d build housing for those in need.

Nope! It just means shuffling people experiencing homelessness to another place. What an absolute asshole!

Donjuanme ,

Shuffling them to other places is how many arrived in California to begin with. But an eye for an eye is bullshit. The la times has no love for newsome

conditional_soup ,

Really disappointed in Newsom here. He’s done a lot to try and improve the housing situation here (though not nearly enough, it’s a lot more movement than this issue has seen in years), so I really expected better than this of him. The camp sweeps are just the biggest fucking waste of money. The state spends millions of dollars playing whack-a-mole, tormenting the people in our society who need the most help and just wallpapering over the problem, and it does absolutely nothing to help. Arguably, it makes things worse. That money could be better spent on direct action, building affordable housing, funding rehabilitation, etc. But we gotta blow it out our ass just tormenting people because whiny wealthier people want them moved now.

And we have the audacity to mock communist regimes for fake grocery stores, as if this is any better. You can’t fix homelessness by making these people miserable. The extra frustrating part is that the real fixes are far, far cheaper than this stupid fucking band-aid system we’ve developed.

some_guy ,

Thanks for making me ashamed of my state, asshole. Then again, my love is actually for the Bay Area and specifically Oakland, so little change there. Fuck off, Gavinator.

UsernameHere ,

You blame the govenor for the Supreme Court ruling?

conditional_soup ,

Nobody’s forcing Newsom to embrace the ruling.

UsernameHere ,

The growing homeless problem is forcing him to embrace the ruling. Why would he ignore the problem?

“prioritizes removal of encampments that pose threats to life, health, and safety, while partnering with local governments and nonprofit providers to facilitate offers of shelter and supportive services in advance of removal.””

conditional_soup ,

Before the 9th circuit stopped it, homeless sweeps were wholeheartedly embraced as the de facto solution. Somehow, over forty years of homeless sweeps, it doesn’t seem to have solved the problem.

It’s because encampment sweeps aren’t a fix, it’s just blasting money out of the government’s ass to temporarily wallpaper over the problem and make life harder on the people who’ve been brought lowest in our society. He would be wise to remain on the path of housing reform and other reforms that California was starting to embrace when it didn’t have any other choice, that is, if he actually intends to fix the problem.

Steve ,

“We must act with urgency to address dangerous encampments, which subject unsheltered individuals living in them to extreme weather, fires, predatory and criminal activity, and widespread substance use, harming their health, safety, and well-being, and which also threaten the safety and viability of nearby businesses and neighborhoods, and undermine the cleanliness and usability of parks, water supplies, and other public resources.”

I don’t even know where to begin.

UsernameHere ,

“The order requires state agencies to adopt policies modeled after a California Department of Transportation policy directive that “prioritizes removal of encampments that pose threats to life, health, and safety, while partnering with local governments and nonprofit providers to facilitate offers of shelter and supportive services in advance of removal.””

Steve , (edited )

Unless they’re setting people up with homes, this sounds like an excuse.

If the shelters were safer and had space, the people in encampments would be using them already.

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