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Before commenting, please read the entire article, not just the headline or first paragraph. The interesting part is the details of the decision and next steps.
by troydavis 5y ago
Before commenting, please read the entire article, not just the headline or first paragraph. The interesting part is the details of the decision and next steps. Whatever one’s views on how to address homelessness, this decision is interesting.
The article links to the full decision as well.
- cjbenedikt 5y agoFinally! Impressive ruling.
- damau 5y agoTruly beautiful, glad I read it. The judge really stuck their neck out. Hope it all comes to fruition and a lot of things are learnt from it.
- insert_coin 5y agoThe main thing we'll learn? homelessness is not a money problem and 1 billion can't solve it.
- falcolas 5y agoWell, the things purchased with the $1B just might. Money can't solve anything on its own, but you can't solve a problem without it either.
- jka 5y agoHopefully this isn't taken as bad humour: I misread one word in the "way forward" section, seeing the word "benches" where it doesn't exist. That reveals something about my subconscious; in my mind, there are few items of outdoor furniture as simple, rewarding, and pleasant to spend time on (alone or with loved ones) as a flat, comfortable bench. Remarkable times in LA. Thank you for sharing this.
- temp8964 5y agoRead through and it seems to be a crazy plan for me. The judge appears to be extremely ideology driven and a believer of the critical race theory to his core. It is also laughable to think a judge has a grand plan to solve a societal issue. So a judge appointed himself to be the supreme planner of the city? The idea that a judge thinks himself can solve the homeless problem with a big plan is by itself pathetic.
- lupire 5y agoAre you claiming the government of Los Angeles has not discriminated on the basis of race?
- temp8964 5y agoAre you claiming all the racial disparities in outcomes are caused by the government discrimination?
- dragonwriter 5y agoAll the disparities don’t need to be caused by racial discrimination for it to be unlawful discrimination on race.
- SauciestGNU 5y agoI have found with a high degree of correlation that people who refer to critical race theory in contexts like the above do so as a shibboleth, and they almost always deny even the existence of structural racism.
- temp8964 5y agoRight, I do agree structural racism / systemic racism has no meaning, as the great Thomas Sowell pointed out.
- kgin 5y agoPutting aside what the judge may or may not think of himself, the ruling is that actions taken by the Los Angeles government led to this specific situation and because of that, the city is responsible for remedying that situation, at least temporarily, in the near term. The city does not need to be 100% responsible for every contributing factor to have a responsibility here just as a drunk driver is not off the hook because it was also raining when he crashed into someone. Nowhere in the ruling does it claim to solve the broader issue of homelessness or dictate a long-term plan for the city. But it does say that the city can't simply let the situation fester while they noodle for decades on initiatives and broader plans.