Orange County to spend $70.5 million on permanent homeless housing

[ShootSpeeders]

Now homeless people from all over the country will invade OC to get the freebies. That's what always happens when you help the homeless.

Orange County to spend $70.5 million on permanent homeless housing, may add camps in 3 cities – Orange County Register

march 20 2018 Supervisors voted Monday for Orange County to spend $70.5 million on permanent housing for the homeless, and to create temporary homeless camps in Irvine, and possibly in Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel.

The vote comes a week after supervisors committed $20 million toward permanent housing for the homeless. The combined $90 million is likely the single largest appropriation ever committed by the county to fight homelessness, and signals a shift in the county’s strategy to solve the growing issue.

The decision came as supervisors admitted that they’ve failed to spend money that’s been available for homeless housing – tens of millions of dollars technically earmarked for mental health funding. Supervisors said they’d been misled by county staff as to what resources were available, though news reports for at least two years have pointed to the availability of up to $186 million.

Staff will advise supervisors in the coming weeks about how the county can acquire land or renovate buildings. It’s unclear when actual construction, or acquisition of housing, might begin.

For homeless advocates, the vote was a welcome surprise.

 

[Aba Incieni]

Nice. OC is being ghettofied.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

There are multimillion dollar housing subdivisions going in around Great Park in Irvine. No I can't see this happening. Laguna Niguel, No. Move them out into the desert.

 

[TomParks]

Shit I should pack my bags and head west for some free shit...laying in the sun scratching your balls living off the fat of the land....sounds like paradise

 

[EverCurious]

Anchorage tried that in the past decade or so; wasn't as great as it sounds on paper. City ended up getting sued by family members of folks who overdosed, a couple kids were killed by stoned/drunk mother/fathers, etc.

 

[Silent Warrior]

But if a homeless person accepts the free accommodations he would no longer be homeless and thus not qualify for the free accommodations.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Now homeless people from all over the country will invade OC to get the freebies. That's what always happens when you help the homeless.

Orange County to spend $70.5 million on permanent homeless housing, may add camps in 3 cities – Orange County Register

march 20 2018 Supervisors voted Monday for Orange County to spend $70.5 million on permanent housing for the homeless, and to create temporary homeless camps in Irvine, and possibly in Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel.

The vote comes a week after supervisors committed $20 million toward permanent housing for the homeless. The combined $90 million is likely the single largest appropriation ever committed by the county to fight homelessness, and signals a shift in the county’s strategy to solve the growing issue.

The decision came as supervisors admitted that they’ve failed to spend money that’s been available for homeless housing – tens of millions of dollars technically earmarked for mental health funding. Supervisors said they’d been misled by county staff as to what resources were available, though news reports for at least two years have pointed to the availability of up to $186 million.

Staff will advise supervisors in the coming weeks about how the county can acquire land or renovate buildings. It’s unclear when actual construction, or acquisition of housing, might begin.

For homeless advocates, the vote was a welcome surprise.

thanks to their wonderful government,we got all these homeless people out there.

 

[harmonica]

failed before....all the $$$$ wasted...blown to dust-crap
Pruitt-Igoe: the troubled high-rise that came to define urban America – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 21

 

[badger2]

Capitalism manufactures these dispossessed just as it does cars and toothpaste. It's part of the axiomatic. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Now homeless people from all over the country will invade OC to get the freebies. That's what always happens when you help the homeless.

Orange County to spend $70.5 million on permanent homeless housing, may add camps in 3 cities – Orange County Register

march 20 2018 Supervisors voted Monday for Orange County to spend $70.5 million on permanent housing for the homeless, and to create temporary homeless camps in Irvine, and possibly in Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel.

The vote comes a week after supervisors committed $20 million toward permanent housing for the homeless. The combined $90 million is likely the single largest appropriation ever committed by the county to fight homelessness, and signals a shift in the county’s strategy to solve the growing issue.

The decision came as supervisors admitted that they’ve failed to spend money that’s been available for homeless housing – tens of millions of dollars technically earmarked for mental health funding. Supervisors said they’d been misled by county staff as to what resources were available, though news reports for at least two years have pointed to the availability of up to $186 million.

Staff will advise supervisors in the coming weeks about how the county can acquire land or renovate buildings. It’s unclear when actual construction, or acquisition of housing, might begin.

For homeless advocates, the vote was a welcome surprise.

speaking of Orange County


Orange County and several other cities in California could follow the lead of Los Alamitos and opt out of the state’s controversial law that restricts local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Los Alamitos, the second smallest city in Orange County with a population of 11,500, late Monday rejected the state’s so-called sanctuary law in a vote of 4-1 of the city council.

Officials with Orange County and the cities of Aliso Viejo and Buena Park reached out to Los Alamitos officials and began publicly expressing support and intentions to take up similar anti-sanctuary language.

“We are a little city in Orange County, but we’re tired of things coming out of Sacramento that just don’t make sense, and now others are telling us they feel the same way,” said Warren Kusumoto, the Los Alamitos councilman who wrote the anti-sanctuary ordinance.

In an interview, Kusumoto said he introduced the language opting out of the new state law because he said state officials are “bullying” city leaders into picking sides between following federal or state law.

Choosing state law over federal law forces local officials to violate their oath of office to defend the U.S. Constitution, he said.

Anti-Sanctuary Push Spreads to Other California Cities

 

[BulletProof]

We give free homes to black welfare whores who raise up street armies of criminals and Democrats, so why not give free homes to homeless people, especially those who suffer from mental illness, and get them off the street?

Ban homeless behavior and have them turn over their SS checks to pay the rent.

 

[Harry Dresden]

There are multimillion dollar housing subdivisions going in around Great Park in Irvine. No I can't see this happening. Laguna Niguel, No. Move them out into the desert.

this is were me and you agree tipsy.....Irvine and Laguna Niguel taking in homeless camps?.....yea right....

 

[ShootSpeeders]

This is southern california and the weather is perfect. Let them live in tents - there is nothing cruel about that.