There is homeless economy where the ‘charities’ and goodwill redirected from tax payers by politicians go right into the pockets of connected cronies. Never let a good crisis go to waste. Homelessness is not an easy problem to solve, but there have been much better and more efficient ideas proposed, only to be halted by bureaucratic and arbitrary rules intended to help nobody but connected cronies and their political partners.
In Los Angeles they passed $1 Billion dollars for the “homeless crisis”. They built housing for about 300 people and homelessness skyrocketed. Most of the money goes to “studies” up front that come up with the plan and then when it comes to the implementation....uh-oh! Gonna need some more money!
In Minneapolis they just spent millions building tiny houses in a warehouse to house homeless people. They had the funding from CARES to do it, but never mind that it will cost a fortune to maintain year after year. Unbelievable how they play this game with OUR money. Let my family keep what we earn.
Long term maintenance on any gov't building that isn't built to last is a killer. I went through this when I worked for a state university. Somehow the maintenance budget was always looted by the time the scheduled maintenance needed to be done. The solution was always the same. Bond issue! That university is over one billion dollars in debt now. Every student pays $2700 a year just for debt service.
A neighbor down the street says those bonds are one of the best investments he's made. I have to explain to him that they're taking money from one of his pockets and putting some of it back in the other, but at least he's getting some of it back.
Seattle spends $450 per man hour to hose shit off the sidewalks. That's a million dollars a year to pay one guy to hose shit off sidewalks. How much of that goes to kickbacks and favored crony pals?
Yep. I forget the term, but the No Agenda podcast looked into it - the "refugee resettlement" groups are getting seriously fat and happy from the government funds they get to bring "immigrants" into the country.
It's all a scam. Always was. How do you think liberals who cheated their way through college to get worthless degrees end up working for 'non-profits", living in multi-million dollar homes?
There is homeless economy where the ‘charities’ and goodwill redirected from tax payers by politicians go right into the pockets of connected cronies. Never let a good crisis go to waste. Homelessness is not an easy problem to solve, but there have been much better and more efficient ideas proposed, only to be halted by bureaucratic and arbitrary rules intended to help nobody but connected cronies and their political partners.
In Los Angeles they passed $1 Billion dollars for the “homeless crisis”. They built housing for about 300 people and homelessness skyrocketed. Most of the money goes to “studies” up front that come up with the plan and then when it comes to the implementation....uh-oh! Gonna need some more money!
In Minneapolis they just spent millions building tiny houses in a warehouse to house homeless people. They had the funding from CARES to do it, but never mind that it will cost a fortune to maintain year after year. Unbelievable how they play this game with OUR money. Let my family keep what we earn.
Long term maintenance on any gov't building that isn't built to last is a killer. I went through this when I worked for a state university. Somehow the maintenance budget was always looted by the time the scheduled maintenance needed to be done. The solution was always the same. Bond issue! That university is over one billion dollars in debt now. Every student pays $2700 a year just for debt service.
A neighbor down the street says those bonds are one of the best investments he's made. I have to explain to him that they're taking money from one of his pockets and putting some of it back in the other, but at least he's getting some of it back.
It would have made more sense to convert the warehouse into a dorm type style.
Another Kowloon Walled City here we come
The Destruction of America's Mental Health Care System
Seattle spends $450 per man hour to hose shit off the sidewalks. That's a million dollars a year to pay one guy to hose shit off sidewalks. How much of that goes to kickbacks and favored crony pals?
Now do San Francisco!
In San Francisco, the smell of poop overpowered by the stench of leftist corruption
Yep. I forget the term, but the No Agenda podcast looked into it - the "refugee resettlement" groups are getting seriously fat and happy from the government funds they get to bring "immigrants" into the country.
It's all a scam. Always was. How do you think liberals who cheated their way through college to get worthless degrees end up working for 'non-profits", living in multi-million dollar homes?
Weird my church can build small villages no problem in South America.
No zoning laws or property taxes. You'd think those places would be utopia, but for some reason it's cinder blocks and rebar everywhere you look.
And the ticks require much less kickback that our ticks
Just like with everything else, they throw tons of money at it and it doesn't help anything.