Santa Monica, California decline
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The Realist Perspective
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1. Homelessness and Housing Allocation:
• California’s budget allocates $1.1 billion to the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program (HHAPP) and $400 million to Encampment Resolution Grants to address homelessness.
Review of Recent Department of Social Services Housing and Homelessness Augmentations
2. Behavioral Health Housing (Proposition 1):
• Proposition 1 provides $6.38 billion in bond funding for behavioral health housing, specifically targeting individuals with mental health and substance use issues, which is crucial in combating homelessness.
https://www.calcities.org/news/post...jor-cuts-to-housing-and-homelessness-programs
3. General Budget Overview (Including Mental Health and Behavioral Health Programs):
• The budget also includes cuts to various behavioral health programs, including the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program and the Behavioral Health Bridge Housing Program, impacting mental health services across the state.
https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/2024-25-california-state-budget-explained
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Cal State Budget is about 223B. So 7-10 billi is not that much.
So if the state is spending billions of dollars to deal with homeless folks all over the state - why is there still a problem?
Could it be that the reducing homelessness is a lot more expensive than 10 billion dollars?
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
A lot of these videos about the downfall of major/notable liberal cities is just porn for conservatives to validate everything they believe about those places.
These videos get far more traffic than the ones about how the bible belt is full of cities with abject poverty,drug abuse,crime and no economic opportunity.... how Nashville doesn't really care that they have neo-nazi's and white supremacists actively choosing their city to meet up.
These videos get far more traffic than the ones about how the bible belt is full of cities with abject poverty,drug abuse,crime and no economic opportunity.... how Nashville doesn't really care that they have neo-nazi's and white supremacists actively choosing their city to meet up.
The Realist Perspective
Superstar
Clearly a leadership problem. Not every state is facing similar problems that Cali does with the homeless. I’ve lived on the East West and South. The homeless issue is unrivaled in Cali.
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
we can't act like 7-10 Billion dollars "isn't much".
When you look at how the allocated money is not reaching the people it's meant for... you'll see that the issue has more to do with the salaries that are getting paid out to people in charge of these programs and how people understand that fixing the problem would put them out of a job....and that a lot of the organizations are ran by people more concerned with leveraging their brand to get themselves somewhere higher up the ladder.
NIMBYism,classism,corporate greed, and grifters are things that money can't fix.
The Atlanta episode about "Reinvesting in your hood" is literally why these initiatives tend to not work.
itsyoung!!
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only in california though ? Other places seem to be doing fine
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
Not every state has the homeless population that California does. NY and CA contain more than half of the homeless population in the country. CA alone has 30% of the homeless population in the country.
CA is one of the few places where you can have a decent job, transportation and can't afford a place to live because of housing costs.
SF has an average rent of $2800 a month, LA is $2100, SD is $2200.... the national average is $1500. This doesn't factor in how many people are 1 paycheck or an accident/emergency away from being homeless. becoming homeless in a place like CA puts you in a hole that you're much more likely to not get out of than in other places.
itsyoung!!
Veteran
Thats because of the policies you dismiss earlier in your post. Example its rows of empty buildings and businesses in San Francisco. A club used to be $12k a month rent then skyrocketed to $25k a month rent. The Academy of Arts owns the building. A billion dollar company. So how do you negotiate with someone who doesnt need for money ? You cant. The building has been vacant since 2019. If you go in and offer $15k a month rent to use the space (still an insane amount of money, right?) they'll say no, sorry, we need $30k a month rent now and if you cant come close to that number we rather just leave it vacant.
Now no new business is being created, economy suffers, and a large building just sits there. This is common, especially all over the bay area and id imagine LA as well. You cant negotiate with companies or incredibly rich people that dont need to budge unless they get exactly what they want. Thats great for them, as a singular entity, its horrible for the community though.
California baby.
Believe me, I know a lot about commercial leases.
Those leases pay some LLC/S-Corps/LLP's/REITs mortgage. Mortgages that used to be held by Pensions and Insurance companies, that are now sliced and diced into mortgage back securities. (MBS)
And part of those securities keep the rents at certain levels by contract, not people on the ground that have to deal with the consequences...
So the individual business owner/entrepreneur does not have the leverage to negotiate with a big entity for a lower rent - but a small group of citizens and tax payers can move Santa Monica to legislate new laws to TAX those empty storefronts.
If there's one thing that CA (state and city) knows how to do is Tax.
It's why movies get made in Georgia and Vancouver.
People like Graham and other closet conservatives (who don't want to alienate their proletariat viewers) don't want to legitimately talk about solutions for "small business", much less address that their beliefs/livelihoods create they very conditions that they complain about.
He now lives in Vegas, a no personal income tax state.
He ain't talking about the homeless problem there
What's being done to address homelessness in the Las Vegas Valley?
We wanted to learn more about what's being done to address homelessness at the ground level, so we hit the streets with a City of Las Vegas outreach team to see their efforts first-hand.
www.ktnv.com
These boys running a psy-op on folks.
These 4 California suburbs listed among safest in U.S., and they're all in the Bay Area
These 4 California suburbs were listed as among the safest in the U.S.
Top 20 safest places to live. Weird how a lot of them are from pretty liberal states. California has 4 of their own on the list.
Those damn liberals right.
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
IIRC there is a stat that says on any given night in Los Angeles, there are ~45k homeless people in the City of LA on any given night.... Even if you opened up enough housing for all of them tomorrow....you're still faced with the reality that these people still need jobs,medical assistance and have to navigate all the channels to get employment,ID's,social security cards,Birth certificates etc.....or they'll eventually end up right back in the situation they're in.
That's not even accounting for homeless youth and how far behind they may be in the school system.
Some of these content creators need these perfect storm of terrible conditions to continue, because they wouldn't have a way to make money otherwise
That's not even accounting for homeless youth and how far behind they may be in the school system.
Some of these content creators need these perfect storm of terrible conditions to continue, because they wouldn't have a way to make money otherwise
Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw
Superstar
You running from homeless men and women cuz they have scary eyes...who's the fakkit butt munching bytch.
You still tough typing fukk niigga…
You can’t afford to live in Santa Monica breh…
I see your mom put the WiFi back on in the basement for your broke ass..
The fact that you came at me on some gay shyt from the jump is even more proof that biitch you call mom shoulda took that nut up her ass…
She coulda had 1 good shyt…but instead you left this bytch with a lifetime of disappointments.
Go kill yourself…
Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw
Superstar
I asked if u were frail cuz u get tried like a hoe by homeless people and u came wit tha gay shyt fakkit. All that imaginary shyt u spewing save it for ur diary fairy.You still tough typing fukk niigga…
You can’t afford to live in Santa Monica breh…
I see your mom put the WiFi back on in the basement for your broke ass..
The fact that you came at me on some gay shyt from the jump is even more proof that biitch you call mom shoulda took that nut up her ass…
She coulda had 1 good shyt…but instead you left this bytch with a lifetime of disappointments.
Go kill yourself…