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The takeover of California neighborhoods by homeless camps has been one of the most obvious features of the deterioration of public life. These camps moved beyond Skid Row and into nicer areas. Berkeley has been battling them lately and making headlines for it. But the only response by California officials was to raise more billions through taxes and ‘bond issues’ and then steal the money. While telling everyone to pay more.
Sales taxes in the area have shot up from 9.75% to as high as 11.25% to fund still more services for the ‘homeless’. The permanent sales tax increase is supposed to raise $1 billion a year to replace the stolen billions spent by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
In 2016 and 2017, LA voters approved $4.6 billion in homeless tax hikes on themselves that included a sales tax increase and Measure HHH, a $1.2 billion bond measure to build 10,000 housing units for the homeless, that taken together were supposed to end homelessness.
By 2020, the average cost of apartments for the homeless was at $531,000 and by 2022, a city audit found that one project was running to $837,000 for each unit. An audit blamed “a lot of consultants”. After 4 years of this, only 228 apartments for the homeless had been built.
Los Angeles then launched a pilot program to build 8×8 aluminum sheds for the homeless for only $130,000 each and then tent encampments for the homeless for only $2,600 per tent each month.
But after all those billions, Gov. Gavin Newsom is suddenly proposing to ban homeless encampments. The last two times he was so interested in cracking down on homelessness he was…
- Facing a recall election
- China’s boss Xi was visiting
What’s going on this time? This is his last term as governor. He’s going to be out soon and he’s trying to do what he can to move his name to the top of the list for 2028. And since there’s a lot of time between 2026 and 2028, he’s doing different things, like launching a podcast, playing the moderate on transgender men and now proposing to finally crack down on homeless encampments.
But is he serious?
Gov. Newsom isn’t leveraging real political power to end homeless camps filled with drug users and the mentally ill. What he’s doing is introducing a model proposal that he expects major cities to reject. This way he can have it both ways. He can pretend he’s trying to end the crisis while having someone else to blame.
Vintage Newsom.
National Voter ID . It is a must have ,
Governor Nuisance is trying to save his own rotten neck for the ways he is wrecking California with his Politics and stupidity
None of the many decades worth of government projects in the SF Bay Area worked, for too many reasons to list them all. The only thing that ever worked was rent subsidies, where private sector organizations provide the housing.
I’m a big believer in rent subsidies. Of course I live in a studio apartment that costs $22,00 a month so I don’t know why. But then, I don’t pay it so I guess that’s why. It took a long time for me to stop busting my ass, breaking my back and slaving away just to pay out my money to other people but I finally did it. I’m retired in poverty but you know how it is nowadays. Cars, big screen TVs with Netflix, wi-fi, limitless sources of music, laptops, food and chicks up the wazoo, and all the other soft things in life. After a lifetime of mindless toil, I figure I’ve earned them.
I started to work when I was seven years old, you know. I would shovel the snow off peoples porches, walkways and cars. I would get my six year old brother to shoulder in and we would get a quarter for that. A quarter was good money to a kid back in the early 70s. It bought us a lot of snacks so we didn’t have to eat the awful school lunches in Milwaukee WI.
Government projects are generally worse than worthless, aas you know. The fucking government. It could fuck up a wet dream.
$2,200. Damn I hate this spell check program.
“But is he serious?” I choked on my coffee over this.
Gavin Newsom is not a serious person. Never was. Never will be.
He’s seriously sleazy and unaccomplished.
You should be serving twenty to life in San Quentin, Gavin Newsom.
PERIOD!
The next election in California: “Citizens ban Newsom from his own State”
Yeah, right. As a citizen of the sh*thole state of California, I can all but assure you that Any Twosome Newsom will be reelection should he decide to run again.
The number of morons, idiots and dumbasses in this state far exceeds the number of intelligent people with a lick of common sense. How else do you explain California being a democrat super majority state? After all, we do have free and fair(?) elections in this state.
Or I should say “erections” given the fact that democrats always win every time they run for office in this state. By all outwards appearances, the majority of California voters have a fetish (i.e., hard on) for democrats. I don’t get it but then I’m a “normal” (i.e., not a moron or an idiot or an incorrigible dumb ass or a democrat..)
Homeless encampments don’t just have lots of drugs and nut-jobs, they have lots of murders. The homeless advocay group which was awarded a free clubhouse in my apartment building without earning it has flyers up on walls asking tenants to join some retarded demonstration against our new San Jose Mayor’s policy of clearing out those pestilential murder pits……..something the police have been doing forever. It’s nothing new.
The derelicts are still free to sleep in doorways and in front of closed buildings and businesses, and in parks but those dangerous “encampments” need to go.
I’m sure the violent derelict druggies will be super appreciative of any idiots who try to help them.
This place taped over ten pages of vile filth on my door the other day about how to warn wetbacks about ICE if us tenants see them.
I can’t wait to move out.
Thanks Jeff !!! Nobody who hasn’t seen it knows what it is like.
Yeah, some people live in La-La Land. Those derelicts can be very dangerous, you Know? I’ve been attacked by them multiple times. I’m like you now. I don’t let strangers slide up behind me.
They are also cray-cray.
Gov. Gruesome could run in the Democrat primaries to become a candidate in 2028 if the rules provide for rank choice voting. Gruesome is clearly a rank choice, but aren’t they all?
That’s an idea. Have the Democrat primaries be ranked choice. They would get some weird candidates that way 🙂
Newsom wants very badly to be president of the United States. He will do and say anything to get that. His cynical ploy may win converts but in the end he will make America a homeless shelter.
I moved from California near the ocean in the South Bay of LA when I retired. I had 2 rental homes in Arizona and I moved into one.
I sold off the last of my California prosperities in 2021. Perfect timing with an outrages profit.
I miss the ocean and that’s it.
The investment opportunities I ‘stumbled’ into since leaving California I would never be able to enjoy if I was living in California.
Not that Arizona is not just as corrupt. AZ doesn’t have the vastness and population to extort sham tax bills and of course again and again I ask myself and others. what’s wrong with the voters? Why vote on tax increases let alone vile, evil, pathological liars and crooks like Gruesome NewScum?
What we don’t ever hear is the potential for an epidemic outbreak in homeless encampments that will spread all over the state and nation. Homeless piss and shit and vomit in open areas and sidewalks feed the rats – Yeah California has a major problem with homeless and there are people laughing all the way to the bank with the scams advertised to help the homeless, and I am not talking about the mission in downtown LA to which I interviewed in the 1990’s to run their computer operation – I am glad I was hired by LA County Sheriff’s Dept – That would have been disgusting with smelly crazy homeless mofolos.