Homeless Population Rises For First Time In Years

[Agent Zero]

Our lowest wage earners kicked to the curb.

https://www.apnews.com/47662ad74baf4bb09f40619e4fd25a94

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation’s homeless population increased this year for the first time since 2010, driven by a surge in the number of people living on the streets in Los Angeles and other West Coast cities.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released its annual Point in Time count Wednesday, a report that showed nearly 554,000 homeless people across the country during local tallies conducted in January. That figure is up nearly 1 percent from 2016.

Of that total, 193,000 people had no access to nightly shelter and instead were staying in vehicles, tents, the streets and other places considered uninhabitable. The unsheltered figure is up by more than 9 percent compared to two years ago.Increases are higher in several West Coast cities, where the explosion in homelessness has prompted at least 10 city and county governments to declare states of emergency since 2015.
City officials, homeless advocates and those living on the streets point to a main culprit: the region’s booming economy .

Rents have soared beyond affordability for many lower-wage workers who until just a just few years ago could typically find a place to stay. Now, even a temporary setback can be enough to leave them out on the streets.

[Mister D]

Maybe west coast liberals should lower their rent.

[Agent Zero]

http://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/18...e-to-the-rich/

At a time when California’s housing crisis has metastasized from a crisis to a catastrophe, Republicans in the House have moved to pour gas on the fire in the name of massive tax cuts for the rich. How? By savaging critical financing tools — including private activity bonds and certain low-income housing tax credits — that help raise billions of dollars in affordable capital to house veterans, seniors, the homeless and people like Vicki.

​But it is not only affordable housing the GOP is willing to sacrifice in pursuit of redistributing the savings to their wealthy and corporate donors.Beyond affordable housing, private activity bonds are often used as an economic development tool, as well as to build hospitals, health clinics, private universities, charter schools and museums.
By eliminating this financing tool, the GOP plan virtually ensures these critical projects will not get built. And, if they are built, they will come at a greater expense.
Steal from the poor and the middle class to give to the rich. The Sheriff of Nottingham would be so proud.

[Kalkin]

You'd think those big hearted west coast liberals would help find these people a place to live.

[Peter1469]

The cost of living is crazy on the West Coast. Now wonder they are driving people into homelessness.

[Kacper]

Maybe west coast liberals should lower their rent.

Perhaps turn those wind turbines into tree houses or something

[Kalkin]

California can regulate chicken housing and drive the price of eggs up to ridiculous levels. They can do the same thing for human fowl.

[Kacper]

Bus them to a right to work state where they can find a job and affordable housing.

[Mister D]

What was the point of this? That Republicans are driving rents up in LA? lol

[Peter1469]

What was the point of this? That Republicans are driving rents up in LA? lol

lol. The hard left is really lost.