More tax dollars wanted for homeless minorities in Los Angeles

[ximmy]

Staggering Number Of Homeless In LA Shows How Tough It Is To Get By
(Or... it's not their fault)

The number of homeless people in Los Angeles is skyrocketing. In just one year (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40115541), the figures revealed that the homeless population in the city grew 20% while the numbers for the wider Los Angeles County were even higher at 23%.
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As if looking at those numbers isn’t cringeworthy enough, The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (https://www.lahsa.org/) reported Wednesday (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-20170530-story.html) that 6,000 homeless young people were tallied across the county in January, a 61% increase over the 2016 total. Most of the young people are ages 18 to 24. All the youth shelters have waiting lists and affordable housing is tough to find, even with a rent voucher, according to Heidi Calmus (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-youth-201700601-story.html) of Covenant House California (https://covenanthousecalifornia.org/), an international youth homeless services agency with a branch in Hollywood. “The system is overwhelmed,” Calmus said Tuesday night as she and a colleague, Nick Semensky, delivered toiletry bags and sandwiches to young people living in the streets.
Despite efforts to combat the problem (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40115541), the number of homeless continue to go up. In 2015 authorities declared a public emergency (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34333406) as the numbers sleeping on the streets soared. City officials committed $100 million to tackle the problem. It’s safe to say that whatever is being done right now is not working.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn described the figures as “staggering.” “Homelessness in LA County has grown at a shocking rate,” she said in a statement (http://hahn.lacounty.gov/supervisor-hahns-statement-2017-homeless-count-results/). “Even as work is being done to get thousands of people off the street and into housing, more and more people are becoming homeless. It is clear that if we are going to end the homeless crisis, we need to stem the overwhelming tide of people falling into homelessness.”
But it isn’t that easy. Experts are placing the blame on soaring rents and a high cost of living (https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/los-angeles)as the two major factors. According to Expatistan.com (https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/los-angeles), a 900 square foot furnished apartment will cost over $2400 per month.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (https://www.lamayor.org/) said there was “no sugarcoating the bad news”. “It’s impossible to wrap your head around the numbers,” he told reporters (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-youth-201700601-story.html), adding that soaring rents and the city’s high cost of living were partly to blame. “We can’t let rents double every year,” he told reporters. Average rents in Los Angeles County have increased by 32% since 2000 while average household incomes for people renting have fallen by 3% when adjusted for inflation, according to the California Housing Partnership (http://1p08d91kd0c03rlxhmhtydpr.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Los-Angeles-County-2017.pdf).
Mayor Garcetti is correct in that you cannot sugarcoat these numbers. In its latest report (https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=1385-2017-homeless-count-results-los-angeles-county-presentation.pdf), the LAHSA said there were 57,794 people homeless in the county during its survey in January, compared to 46,874 in 2016. In the city there were 34,189 with no permanent roof over their heads, the report said, compared to 28,464 the year before.
The solution, according to the politicians in Los Angeles, is of course, to throw money at the problem. The county needs to build more than 550,000 affordable rental homes for low-income households, the LAHSA says. (https://www.lahsa.org/) Los Angeles recently approved new measures (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40115541)to raise $1.2 billion in bonds to build 10,000 new units of housing for homeless people. There are also plans to raise about $3.5billion over 10 years to pay for other homelessness projects.

When the number of homeless increases this dramatically, it’s easy to see that the nation is in a bit of an economic bind. It’s getting harder and harder to get by, and any sort of financial issue, no matter how small, could easily cause homelessness for those living paycheck to paycheck.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-02/staggering-number-homeless-la-shows-how-tough-it-get

Homeless demographics of Los Angeles:

African Americans make up approximately half of the Los Angeles County homeless population
- disproportionately high compared to the percentage of African Americans in the county overall (about 9 percent).

Race


General Population
Homeless Population


Latino
47%
33%


White
30%
14%


African American
9%
50%


Asian/Pacific Islander
12%
2%


Other
2%
Less than 1%

[Joshua01]

Fuck'em, let them die in the streets! Karma is a bitch and when you live on the government dole you get what you deserve

[ximmy]

Blacks belong in Africa where they can spend their days looking for water and grubs to eat,
instead of polluting American streets while waiting for white men to take care of them.

Black is the Face of Homelessness
........The issue of homelessness in America is not just about economics, although that is an important component, but is also an issue both deeply and profoundly tainted by race. The data speaks for itself. African Americans are only 12.6 percent of the country’s population and yet account for more than 40 percent of its homeless population.

Sadly, California holds the dubious distinction of having the largest percentage of the nation’s chronically homeless—36 percent. The next closest state, and a distant second, is Florida with only seven percent. In addition, 24 percent of the nation’s homeless veterans live in California. The state is in a homelessness crisis and it faces a daunting and herculean challenge to find meaningful ways to mitigate this issue.
Yes, California has a major ‘homelessness’ problem; however, all is not equal across the state. Los Angeles is dealing with homelessness, particularly among African Americans, that many might consider of biblical proportions.......


Race and homelessness in Los Angeles http://www.blackvoicenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/race_homeless_LA.jpg



.......“I’ve spent years working in South Los Angeles focusing on joblessness, poverty, and lack of public services,” he explained. “I am dedicated to the issues facing working families of color in South LA, which has made the challenge of addressing homelessness a valuable one.”

The more he engaged with this crisis he added, “I saw time and again that the face of homelessness was a Black one, and saw first-hand institutionalized racism amplifies the effects of economic inequality.”.....

Whites are the problem



......Harris-Dawson continued, “Issues like Section 8 vouchers, public mental health care, economic development and affordable housing funding, re-entry funding, food stamps, and social service funding all come from federal and state governments. Without increases in these sources of funding, Los Angeles is limited in the impact it can make.”

The councilman stressed how federal, state, and local policies and resources can be coordinated and leveraged to create an indelible impact in the lives of 44 thousand living on the streets.

http://www.blackvoicenews.com/2016/03/23/black-is-the-face-of-homelessness/

[Joshua01]

Let's start thinning the herd!
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/68/68e4e72889cc97a57d6486346d40a609f1da3db1c2f14c3011 b302ab9570a022.jpg

[cheka.]

op article talks about numbers. but it doesn't mention the avalanche of benefits that rain down when one checks the box 'homeless' on the gov form. people respond to incentives....esp when it involves free sh-t. i speak from first hand knowledge of texas......so most states are likely worse

today's 'homeless' is full of fraud just like today's 'science'

all stats and screeching media re increasing homelessness should be analyzed knowing this

[osoab]

Did San Diego bus them there?

City of Denver giving homeless people one-way bus tickets out of town (http://www.9news.com/news/local/next/city-of-denver-giving-homeless-people-one-way-bus-tickets-out-of-town/387284797)
Homeless bused out of Portland, but some still on the street (http://www.kgw.com/news/investigations/portlands-homeless-bus-program-how-many-are-still-homeless/425448690)