Bass declares homelessness emergency

In her first move as mayor, Karen Bass issued a state of emergency declaration for homelessness, a promise she made during her inauguration on Sunday.

Pedro Rivera reports for KTLA 5 News at 10, Dec. 12, 2022

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[bizmarkie]

I’ve always wondered why we send billions overseas yet we have thousands of homelessness here in our own country 😢

[Alexwhatisit]

Their solution will be “push them out of city limits” since the layout of the city is so wonky. It’s just shuffling them over to the next block.

[pitchforkpeasant]

People are working full time and still becoming homeless. Renters pay increases in property taxes and all tax increases too. Increased costs. Increased taxes. They’re killing us in cost

[blainemitchell]

Hope it works. I lived in LA in the 90's and this year went back for vacation with my kids. The amount of homelessness has exploded. You could drive down a road full of nice homes and when you turn the corner the entire street was filled with tents. It's sad.

[kharkivlife]

"The definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes over and over again and expecting different results..."

[JD-vorr]

Until they start calling it a housing affordability emergency, nothing will change

[peterbelanger]

sadly, they are not going to fix the problem. Too many are making too much money keeping the problem going.

[sipioc]

This has been a problem for years, mass numbers of people living on the streets in tent cities with impotent public officials just sucking op the money designed to help them only to be met with half measures and false plans.

Something EXTREME would need to happen and I doubt it will.

[Rnn]

I was born in CA and had lived there all my life. Year after year it's becoming more of a crap-hole. Nothing against the day-to-day people who live there, but more on the people who make the big decisions that keep ruining the state. Moved out and things have been amazing.

[LeonardWashington]

They need to stop giving money to these crooked nonprofit companies. Homelessness has become one of the biggest rackets in this country

[technicoloryaya]

Has anyone seen the short about the rent in L.A.? The average rent for a small 1 or 2 bedroom apartment is $3, 000. If a homeless person has an income at all, it's most likely SSI or SSDI. After they take out money for medical benefits (no, they aren't free), the average income through these sources is: $789. Yeah... it's not a homelessness problem. It's an approved gouging problem. Wanna see homelessness become much less of an issue? Regulate rents and housing costs.

[critter]

And... let's just keep allowing more people into our country

[moxsteel]

The housing market effects apartment prices, prices of apartments are outrageous right now.
Big companies pay their employees garbage in comparison to the profits made, going to school costs a fortune and doesn’t guarantee you a job. Housing the homeless will not help anything. Money will go to contractors that are in the pockets of these politician and what will come out of it is nothing because the real problems aren’t being addressed.

[somewhrntm]

I think looking at how other countries have dealt with their homelessness crisis could help solve ours. Look and see who has been the most successful and see what they did and are doing to help it.

[curtrodgers]

This has to be addressed nation wide, the homeless will move to the state that takes care of them, LA will be bombarded.

[ThisIsSolution]

"Using every resource possible" = spending all the money on things besides helping the homeless.
Ah yes, the government can not solve an issue it actively creates.

[mrsynister]

People talk the good talk, so we will see what happens. Fingers crossed.

[faptasticmeals]

She read from a script that said a whole lot of nothing. It will get a lot worse from here.

[ipos]

Hawaii cost more to live in that California.

Hawaii spent 7 million dollars, from land acquisition to completion of individual buildings for over 250 people.

San Francisco spent 10 billion dollars on 60, 000 people. The math doesn't add up.

[MelonHead]

Hasn't CA already spent multi-billions on homelessness? Where did all that money go? Never mind, we know where it went ...