excalibur
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Vote Democrat, vote your own doom. And too many Americans are brain-dead, and vote Democrat. How esle explain 75 million voting for such a nobody like Kamala Harris?
As officials investigate what caused Los Angeles’ devasting fires, I know the answer. It was the homeless. The LA Fire Department reports that 54% of fires in 2023 were started by homeless. They responded to almost 14,000 fires that year alone related to homelessness!
Regardless of whether the Pacific Palisades fire was directly started by a homeless person, the extent of the destruction from the fire can be attributed to the homeless. A few months ago, a LA City Council person reported to me that she spends 80 percent of her time on LA’s homeless problem. Eighty percent! That does not leave much time to focus on the basic needs of the average tax paying LA resident, such as water, power, sanitation, safety, security, roads, sidewalks, traffic, parks, beaches, schools, firefighting and fire prevention. And when the mayor feels free to jet off to Ghana for a presidential inauguration on the other side of the globe, we cannot assume the other twenty percent of time is well spent.
In addition, the Council passed a budget for this year providing $1.3 Billion for homeless-related expenses. The same budget cut spending on the fire department by $17 million!
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If LA simply put the ban back in place, and enforced it, the homeless problem would go away. The problem started when a court barred LA from enforcing its no camping law. But that decision was overturned last year by the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet, unlike most cities, LA has not put the ban back in place. Instead, all of LA is open for camping: sidewalks, parks, beaches, etc. There is a very limited number of designated no camping locations, such as outside a kindergarten. But even those exceptions are now being debated by the council.
Instead, the council and mayor have embarked on a plan to find permanent housing for anyone and everyone on the street, no matter where they come from. In addition to the $1.3 Billion budgeted for homeless, a new LA County sales tax for homeless housing and services will provide another estimated $1.1 Billion.
A recent study by the Westside Current found that LA has acquired 2,750 housing units (condos, apartments, or hotel rooms) at a cost of close to $1 Billion. One of the buildings purchased for $36.6 million still had an active website advertising “luxury” apartment featuring “spacious, modern elegance” and “sweeping views of LA.” The units feature balconies and a rooftop deck offering “stunning views of the Hollywood sign . . . in a great neighborhood with plenty of restaurants, shops and bars within walking distance, and just minutes from Beverly Hills.” That is double the cost of the fire department budget cut.
The plan has been in place for years but has hardly put a dent in the problem. The word is out that LA is a good place to go if you want to live outside, so more and more come.
The LA city council consists of about two thirds’ Democrats, one third Democrat Socialists of America (DSA), and zero Republicans. It uses the homeless problem as an excuse to implement its far-left agenda, which includes rent controls, tenant eviction protections, mansion taxes, free basic income, reparations, sanctuary laws, and free housing for all.
For the City’s leaders, basic services that most Angelenos care about, like firefighting, are at the bottom of their list of priorities.
californiaglobe.com
As officials investigate what caused Los Angeles’ devasting fires, I know the answer. It was the homeless. The LA Fire Department reports that 54% of fires in 2023 were started by homeless. They responded to almost 14,000 fires that year alone related to homelessness!
Regardless of whether the Pacific Palisades fire was directly started by a homeless person, the extent of the destruction from the fire can be attributed to the homeless. A few months ago, a LA City Council person reported to me that she spends 80 percent of her time on LA’s homeless problem. Eighty percent! That does not leave much time to focus on the basic needs of the average tax paying LA resident, such as water, power, sanitation, safety, security, roads, sidewalks, traffic, parks, beaches, schools, firefighting and fire prevention. And when the mayor feels free to jet off to Ghana for a presidential inauguration on the other side of the globe, we cannot assume the other twenty percent of time is well spent.
In addition, the Council passed a budget for this year providing $1.3 Billion for homeless-related expenses. The same budget cut spending on the fire department by $17 million!
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If LA simply put the ban back in place, and enforced it, the homeless problem would go away. The problem started when a court barred LA from enforcing its no camping law. But that decision was overturned last year by the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet, unlike most cities, LA has not put the ban back in place. Instead, all of LA is open for camping: sidewalks, parks, beaches, etc. There is a very limited number of designated no camping locations, such as outside a kindergarten. But even those exceptions are now being debated by the council.
Instead, the council and mayor have embarked on a plan to find permanent housing for anyone and everyone on the street, no matter where they come from. In addition to the $1.3 Billion budgeted for homeless, a new LA County sales tax for homeless housing and services will provide another estimated $1.1 Billion.
A recent study by the Westside Current found that LA has acquired 2,750 housing units (condos, apartments, or hotel rooms) at a cost of close to $1 Billion. One of the buildings purchased for $36.6 million still had an active website advertising “luxury” apartment featuring “spacious, modern elegance” and “sweeping views of LA.” The units feature balconies and a rooftop deck offering “stunning views of the Hollywood sign . . . in a great neighborhood with plenty of restaurants, shops and bars within walking distance, and just minutes from Beverly Hills.” That is double the cost of the fire department budget cut.
The plan has been in place for years but has hardly put a dent in the problem. The word is out that LA is a good place to go if you want to live outside, so more and more come.
The LA city council consists of about two thirds’ Democrats, one third Democrat Socialists of America (DSA), and zero Republicans. It uses the homeless problem as an excuse to implement its far-left agenda, which includes rent controls, tenant eviction protections, mansion taxes, free basic income, reparations, sanctuary laws, and free housing for all.
For the City’s leaders, basic services that most Angelenos care about, like firefighting, are at the bottom of their list of priorities.
I Live in Pacific Palisades and I Know Who Caused the Fire – California Globe
