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2017-08-17 Government

LA County leaders greenlight effort to pay homeowners to house the homeless

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-17 05:35|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-08-17 08:49|| 2017-08-17 08:49|| Front Page Top

Home or business? You decide.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-17 08:54|| 2017-08-17 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Then they would use the squatter laws against said homeowner if they ever wanted them out.

Posted by chris 2017-08-17 09:27|| 2017-08-17 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 - Exactly!

Posted by Frank G on the Road 2017-08-17 10:18|| 2017-08-17 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Plus who pays for the damages to the house? And how does broke LA county pay for this?

This whole program seems set to fail.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-17 10:30|| 2017-08-17 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 I lived in 1 stall of a 2 stall garage during college. Who qualifies as homeless?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-17 10:48|| 2017-08-17 10:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Remember (de facto) unregulated nursing homes? Exploitation is just around the corner. Heck, according to VDH, they've already turned a blind eye to all sorts of zoning violations in housing illegals.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-17 11:22|| 2017-08-17 11:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Plus who pays for the damages to the house?

As a landlord, I found about this really quick. Why does property get trashed? It's not theirs.

Posted by Raj 2017-08-17 11:38|| 2017-08-17 11:38|| Front Page Top

#9 to help homeless people transition into planned affordable housing

Just remember, 'Affordable Housing' is usually not affordable. It's heavily subsidized (let's just call it 'free') for the 'underprivileged'. Guess who pays for that.

Otherwise the required rents/payments are well beyond what most homeless can afford.

So the '$355 million a year for 10 years' is just the tip of the iceberg for the compassionate voters in LA County.

Upkeep be hard.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-08-17 11:51|| 2017-08-17 11:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Because living somewhere is subsidised rents become unaffordable.
It's basic Ricardo's law (density of emoluments in an area defines the price of living there).

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-08-17 12:19|| 2017-08-17 12:19|| Front Page Top

#11 There are incredible numbers of bums in SoCal, and they are emboldened and aggressive as any gang banger.

I can't help but wonder what it'd be like to have a neighbor who decides to open a flop house and become an absentee landlord on the county dollar.

Posted by regular joe 2017-08-17 12:34|| 2017-08-17 12:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Just FYI - typical rent in San Diego is ~$2000/Mo

Posted by Frank G on the Road 2017-08-17 12:40|| 2017-08-17 12:40|| Front Page Top

#13 In TLH we have dorm-houses. They slipped in under a law regulating the number of non-related abiding in the house.
The law as been since fixed but grandfathering is still around. Good news is fireworks a beer are easy to find.

Posted by Shipman 2017-08-17 12:45|| 2017-08-17 12:45|| Front Page Top

#14 I foresee a bunch of meth labs and "shooting galleries".

Posted by Pappy 2017-08-17 12:55|| 2017-08-17 12:55|| Front Page Top

#15 If they want affordable housing they can move out to the desert. Everybody in the whole wide world wants to live in coastal southern California but the sad fact is they can't. (OK, some of you Rantburgers don't but if you did live here you'd know what I mean.) There is no such thing as affordable housing in coastal southern California, there are only the developers who make money building houses that they claim will be affordable and the crooked politicians who enable them. It's all a lie.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-17 12:57|| 2017-08-17 12:57|| Front Page Top

#16 The program also will streamline the permitting process and provide technical assistance to homeowners within the county’s unincorporated areas, who would qualify, officials said.

This is just a scam to get them out of downtown and foist them on LA County's remaining rural areas.

Posted by JHH 2017-08-17 13:49|| 2017-08-17 13:49|| Front Page Top

#17 Dear Ubu @ #15: I read 'da Burg, and have no desire to live in CA; any part of it. I have to visit there as part of work and that is my constant reminder about how totally screwed up the state is. My condolences to you.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2017-08-17 14:19|| 2017-08-17 14:19|| Front Page Top

#18 This is just a scam to get them out of downtown and foist them on LA County's remaining rural areas.

They've been foisting them on San Bernardino and (eastern) Riverside counties up until recently.

Posted by Pappy 2017-08-17 15:03|| 2017-08-17 15:03|| Front Page Top

#19 USN, don't tell me. Tell it to the Mexicans, the Chinese, the Arabs, the Somalis and the New Yorkers. Tell it to the developers and politicians who tell us it's our responsibility to provide "affordable housing" for all the homeless freaks.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-17 19:37|| 2017-08-17 19:37|| Front Page Top

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