The situation with LA's Proposition HHH was pure graft, imho. The voters were duped into thinking that their increase in sales tax was going to end the encampme

The situation with LA's Proposition HHH was pure graft, imho. The voters were duped into thinking that their increase in sales tax was going to end the encampments, but there was fine print in the measure that enabled two devopers to rake in vast amounts of money while not remotely solving the problem. The language of the housing first measure stipulated that the developers of the housing had to have previous experience developing permanent supportive housing. There were only two developers that qualified, making them for all practical purposes no-bid contracts. LA could've sheltered every human being on the streets with that money, and still would've had hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase cheaper, existing housing. That whole thing was just wicked, brazen corruption that extended the needless suffering of everyone living on the street.