LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 6.0

[caligrad]

The LAST thing LA needs to be doing is building dense supportive housing for the homeless like this in the middle of the city. It doesn't work. Look at the giant housing blocks on the east coast or the projects here in south central. The area around them become development dead zones, property values tank and crime skyrockets. The city throws their hands up and say "well we tried, vote for us anyway"

This is what needs to happen to fix the homeless problem in California. The state needs to build processing centers just outside of LA, San Diego and the Bay Area. Build them on the outskirts of Barstow, Lancaster, Fresno, Stockton, Modesto, Calexico and El Centro. Have each facility hold 5k-10k people. Make it illegal to sleep on the streets, make it law to force them to these facilities, start filtering people to see what's everyone's individual issue, Mental/Health/financial. Staff them with mental health officials, health care officials and case managers for struggling families.

Reintegrate people who are mentally and physically able back into the cities with jobs and housing support with routine follow ups by case managers. Those who are mentally ill/ drug addicted, start revamping long term mental health facilities to handle more people. End the homeless tourism as other states ship them here like an endless conveyor belt, start sending them back to their home states and etc.

We've spent over 20 billion since covid on the homeless problem with literally no results. This solution could clean up the cities with one swoop and at a fraction of the cost. But doesn't seem like State/City officials are interested in actually fixing the problem. (Not to mention, this lessons the chance of fraud since currently money is being thrown randomly and freely at shady "non profits" ).

[caligrad]

double post*

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

This haa been my thought on what to do as well. It's logical, moves the addicts and mentally ill away from temptation and their routine and actually gives them a chance to recover and as noted, much much much cheaper. I would go a step further and allow the missions and moon profits to run these shelters if they agree to sell their existing properties in skid row

[caligrad]

^^^ I've thought of that as well. The only way to clean up Skid Row is to essentially give the Missions and nonprofits down there somewhere else to go. Having them so concentrated in that small area is just nonsense at this point. This plan should have been implemented over a decade ago. But no politician wants to be panned as the bad guy or the one to say the quiet thing out loud when in reality, we're ALL thinking it.

For reference, Disney Worlds all-star resorts (google map an ariel view of it) has roughly 6 thousand rooms, rooms that in reality could temporarily house 4 people each. It cost them 400 million (1999 money) to build the complex (which has 3 dining halls and 3 resource centers). Just 2 of these complexes here would cost a billion or 2, could be constructed quickly, and hold 24 thousand people.... That sounds a lot better than 20 billion and no results.