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Most American cities will do absolutely anything to reduce homelessness except build more housing: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-end
by jseliger 6y ago
Most American cities will do absolutely anything to reduce homelessness except build more housing: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-end-homelessness-except-build-more-homes https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en...
California cities are probably the worst offenders: https://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-fills-back-proposition-hhh-facilities-program/ https://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-..., but even Austin is underbuilding relative to demand.
- gamblor956 6y agoOne of the very liberal reporters at the LA Times did a series of articles on the homeless crisis in LA a year or two ago. He actually had difficulty finding a homeless person who was from Southern California. Nearly all of the homeless were from other states or other countries. It's not California's failure so much as it is that the rest of the nation is using California to warehouse their homeless so they can feel smug about not caring for their own citizens.
- michael1999 6y agoRemember that only 40% of Californians are from California. Most people in California aren't from there.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoSomeone moves to California and later becomes homeless - is evidence of what?
- gamblor956 6y agoNo, it's not "someone moves to CA and later becomes homeless." It's someone becomes homeless and their home city doesn't want to pay to deal with it, so they buy them a $5 bus ticket to LA. Steve Lopez, the journalist I was referring to, interviewed a group of homeless living in Hollywood in one of his articles. All of the individuals were homeless prior to coming to LA, and almost all of them had been sent here.
- decafninja 6y agoI'm guessing it's in fear of tanking existing property values, and therefore stepping on existing property owners?