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As part of the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s ‘Corrupt California’ series, I wrote about the corruption of the homeless crisis.
Homeless housing was being approved at a cost of $479,000 an apartment and total development cost for Measure HHH hit $869 million.
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. The homeless services complex had managed to take something the homeless were already doing for themselves and charge as much for it as a decent apartment rental.
The solution to this was Mayor Karen Bass declaring a permanent homeless ‘state of emergency’ and suspending competitive bidding.
Because clearly competitive bidding was the problem here.
Upon taking office in December 2022, Mayor Karen Bass declared a local emergency to address the dual housing and homelessness crisis. The City Council votes to extend or terminate the declaration every 90 days.
While a declaration of local emergency is in place, the mayor has the ability to suspend what is known as competitive bidding as well as expedite the procurement of contracts for construction, service providers and other work related to the emergency.
Where did all the homeless spending go under Mayor Bass? Funny you should ask.
An audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), which gets money from the city, county and the federal government, found that it couldn’t account for $2.5 billion in spending. It also illegally refused to release information about $800,000 in payouts over abuses at the agency.
Time for another renewal of the permanent homeless emergency which is really a permanent corruption emergency.
That’s why democrats want to be elected to office – to get rich.
As what happened in Bell, CA. The gov’t employees lavished themselves jaw-dropping salaries.
All Democrats, but news reporters never bothered to mention it, after the scandal broke.
Only one had their party affiliation mentioned – then A.G. Jerry Brown who vowed to get to the bottom of the corruption! . . . then dutifully forgot the whole thing when he became Governor (as did the press.)
The high-speed rail he started has billions sunk into with nothing to show for it.
You’re right. Someone got rich on that boondoggle.
Jerry Brown’s grandfather was Edmund Joseph Brown; he was known for running gambling operations and scams in San Francisco. (don’t take my word for it – www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2025/02/californias-spider-web-of-corruption-a-legacy-of-power-and-influence.html).
Long tradition of Democrap politicians coming out of family crime businesses.
The most prominent being the Kennedys, and of course Pelosi’s father was a mob boss as well.
Now Now – in all fairness, it’s why many slick forked tongued snake people want to be elected–for graft because in fact, they’re all grifting gypsies – Slap – rattle tambourine rim shot!
We can always count on the California government to piss away money it doesn’t really have.
more consultants, yeah thats the issue, yes sir eee
Its pretty sickening
Even a bad developer getting no breaks any paying the union off would do it better faster cheaper and thats not saying much
I think if your told them a way to do it for half and triple the amounts but the developer gets a 10% fee they would do the same as now
Finally when they get a miniscule amunt of units built at high cost they name it after themselves and dish out managment costs and services to their friends
In the past I would bring up solutions but the leftist in the governemnt would amoung other things say well the people we rent to cant be expected how to live correctly so each complect needs a police office, drug office, get to school on time office, ilegal office etc etc
Ridiculous policy, but in reality, the Communists aren’t interested in solving the problems. Keynes already explained the economic theory in the early 1930s. Basically the only thing that works is subsidized rent.
My rent is subsidized. It’s supposed to be $2,200 a month but I don’t pay anywhere near that much. After a former lifetime of sweat and toil, I feel no guilt for getting a break in life.
Nobody should have to spend the majority of their income on rent or mortgages. That isn’t slavery but it’s quite oppressive.
Keynes had some keen observations although I think economics is a bogus “science.”
Those administering the homeless industrial complex are making far too much money on it to ever want that problem to be solved.
Maybe Bass should go live in Cuba–she seems to like the place. What a bitter joke this all is.
Have you been to downtown on a Friday and Saturday night with night markets on the streets – violation of health codes – they want the illegals in, they get welfare, driver’s licenses, and the right to vote – it works so well, they rigged and stole the 2020 election in a vile coup d’etat and opened the borders. If you got all that free stuff you would keep voting for those who give you the free stuff.
Republican party has to wake up to this and use the same militant strategies the demoncraps use!
I am glad I moved out of California when I retired. I miss the ocean. Arizona pulled the same rigged and stolen coup d’etat with the 2022 election and put in an equally dim witted dipshit stooge puppet whore.
Kari Lake should be the governor. And what a powerful clean governor Kari would be!
Kari Lake won that election but it was stolen by Maricopa County cheating, as usual. Nobody really voted for that ugly, anti-black racist, dyke Katie Slobs.
I used to live in AZ up in Mohave County. I know what the people are really like there but the CA carpetbaggers in Maricopa County are as adept at stealing elections as the D-Bags are here in CA.
Why not, especially when she was a member of the Venceremos Brigade, who went there to assist in an agricultural project as part of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power – a revolution supported by members of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations.
As someone who was born and raised in the city of the angels (Los Angeles) I know a thing or two about how politics work in the sh*thole city.
Whenever there’s money allocated for some project, the project itself gets whatever is left after overhead & administrative costs are paid and the politicians and contractors have gotten their bite (aka, “mordida”) of the money.
The net net of it all is that at most, maybe 20 cents of every dollar allocated to the project actually gets spent on the project itself. And I’m probably being generous with that numbers.
Me too. I was born in St Johns in Santa Monica. The first place I lived was Venice Beach then raised in Hawthorne near the Beach Boys and now Tesla/Spacex.
I left California when I retired in 2017 – I found an investment bonanza in my new state of Arizona.
The same deep state machinations that rigged and stole the 2020 election in a vile coup d’etat, rigggred and stole the 2022 midterms.
Arizona pulled the same rigged and stolen coup d’etat with the 2022 election and put in an equally dim witted dipshit stooge puppet whore.
Kari Lake should be the governor. And what a powerful clean governor Kari would be!
Me too. I was born in St Johns in Santa Monica. The first place I lived was Venice Beach then raised in Hawthorne near the Beach Boys and now Tesla/Spacex.
I left California when I retired in 2017 – I found an investment bonanza in my new state of Arizona.
The same deep state machinations that rigged and stole the 2020 election in a vile coup d’etat, rigged and stole the 2022 midterms.in Arizona installing an equally dim witted corrupt dipshit stooge puppet whore.
Kari Lake should be the governor. And what a powerful clean governor Kari would be!