California Scheming: Because the point of all these poverty plans is graft for politicians and their friends, not actual results

[excalibur]

Such outrageous lies by Newsom.

Such graft.

Newsom is behind billions in graft.

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March 2023: Gavin Newsom promises to build 1,200 tiny homes by Fall​

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Fall: Newsom's Senior Advisor on Homelessness offers a word salad explanation for the nonexistent tiny homes​

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August 2024: $750 MILLION gone & not a single tiny home constructed​

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[scruffy]

Linkie?

 

[excalibur]

Linkie?

Added to the OP.

 

[scruffy]

Added to the OP.

Rather than graft, this article makes it clear the vendors have received no orders.

Newsom promised 1,200 tiny homes for homeless Californians. A year later, none have opened

Gov. Gavin Newsom said he’d send tiny homes to San Jose, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego County. Why haven’t any materialized yet?

calmatters.org

So, where did the money go?

"Communications involving the governor’s office are exempt from the California Public Records Act. Multiple requests by CalMatters for emails between the governor’s office and the cities and counties slated to receive the tiny homes were denied."

 

[scruffy]

Here's a good one:

"The cheapest Pallet tiny home approved by the state contract sells for $18,900. Add an en suite bathroom, and the price jumps to $55,350. That’s still considerably cheaper than other housing options."

 

[elektra]

1200? We need 12 million tiny homes. In Tennessee they are called single wide mobile homes, 2 bedrooms 2 bathrooms for $32,000

Why are there no studio apartments in California that cost $32,000

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

This idea is so harebrained it was doomed to fail and the money was doomed to disappear. Granted, homeless people need homes, and shelters are unlivable. However buying 1,200 tiny homes for people who can't make any payments on them is obviously not going to work.

 

[Oddball]

Because the point of all these poverty plans is graft for politicians and their friends, not actual results​

 

[elektra]

This idea is so harebrained it was doomed to fail and the money was doomed to disappear. Granted, homeless people need homes, and shelters are unlivable. However buying 1,200 tiny homes for people who can't make any payments on them is obviously not going to work.

We need to make homelessness illegal as part of a greater strategy that makes it easy for all working, at any wage, to buy a home reasonably close to where the jobs are.

A solution that sorts through the homeless, putting the criminals in jail, the drug addicts in treatment, the mentally impaired psychological help, the unskilled skilled, and those who work in easily affordable homes they can own.

 

[elektra]

Here's a good one:

"The cheapest Pallet tiny home approved by the state contract sells for $18,900. Add an en suite bathroom, and the price jumps to $55,350. That’s still considerably cheaper than other housing options."

$55k seems expensive

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

We need to make homelessness illegal as part of a greater strategy that makes it easy for all working, at any wage, to buy a home reasonably close to where the jobs are.

A solution that sorts through the homeless, putting the criminals in jail, the drug addicts in treatment, the mentally impaired psychological help, the unskilled skilled, and those who work in easily affordable homes they can own.

I'm not sure how well outlawing homelessness would work. Especially since I reckon very few people are homeless by choice. That said, as ghoulish as it sounds, we may want to look to prisons as a sort of model as to how to give homeless people a life. Just so we're clear I DO NOT ADVOCATE PUTTING HOMELESS PEOPLE INTO PRISON. However, prisoners have work, and a roof over their head. Of course the prisoner has no freedom, whereas a homeless person is no less entitled to freedom than a normal member of society. However, the point is that there is probably some way to house all these people, in a place safer than existing shelters, and provide them with some labor.

Perhaps it would work in a way that they prisoners pay a nominal rent for a room at such a facility, and they are paid at that facility for some work done, and then in turn they use that pay to pay the rent. Hell, the US could try using this method to reindustrialize.

 

[elektra]

I'm not sure how well outlawing homelessness would work. Especially since I reckon very few people are homeless by choice. That said, as ghoulish as it sounds, we may want to look to prisons as a sort of model as to how to give homeless people a life. Just so we're clear I DO NOT ADVOCATE PUTTING HOMELESS PEOPLE INTO PRISON. However, prisoners have work, and a roof over their head. Of course the prisoner has no freedom, whereas a homeless person is no less entitled to freedom than a normal member of society. However, the point is that there is probably some way to house all these people, in a place safer than existing shelters, and provide them with some labor.

Perhaps it would work in a way that they prisoners pay a nominal rent for a room at such a facility, and they are paid at that facility for some work done, and then in turn they use that pay to pay the rent. Hell, the US could try using this method to reindustrialize.

Yes, it sounds bad if that was all there was to it. I think it is the only solution. Make homelessness illegal as part of a greater program that finds people the help they need.

We don't put people in jail for having a burnt out tail light on a car but it is illegal. So I see no problem if homelessness is illegal as part of a program that gives everyone an option.

We need housing, simple housing. We need the mentally disturbed off the streets. We need criminals off the streets. We need good housing that even a high school graduate can buy with his first job.

So many people graduating school have no chance of buying a home or renting a home.

It is that reality which leads people to crime, drug abuse, suicide, despair.