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Not using all the Nazi rhetoric, thats good
Good enough
More to the point, homelessness boils down to income inequity,,,,Its that simple
The you have the latest points made on how California spent 17 billion that never made it to the streets.....As the other report noted,,,most of the homeless are employed, they were once housed.....Getting rehoused is beyond their means due to the high cost of living.....
On to the follow up,,,,CA is going to spend billions more siting mental health as the real cause...(not that money spent on that wont be well spent if it makes it to the streets for mental health) but it wont help the majority of homeless..
Katie did the math, follow along (or move on)...Gotta wonder where the woman is today
Seems this is how it works,,,,,Real Estate folk value their property higher to get loans, the the bank negotiates that value.......Then you have the actual value used for property tax.........A game played by all, not that trumps valuing for loans wasn't excessive, it was, remember the bank then negotiated......
Tax assessing price, not sure on those big properties,,,,And then there is what a property actually sells for
By any stretch, Trump was treated much differently than the rest.....Which is the cause of contention and leads to political strife or is applauded depending.....
James running on get trump and stretching the law doesn't help
The handyman....The Squatter Hunter" takes aim at illegal tenants across California
Pretty smart fella actually,,,,getting his own show to as I said.......
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/the-squatter-hunter-takes-aim-at-illegal-tenants-across-california/
All I'm doing is becoming a squatter and flipping this process on them," Shelton said. "I figured if they could take a house, I could take a house."
Shelton has been busy taking back properties across the West Coast for the last year, starting his mission after a squatter invaded his mother's home that they were trying to sell.
In response, Shelton had his mother give him a lease for the home so that he could move in — making things very uncomfortable for the squatter.
"I'm not going in and I'm not hurting anyone. I'm not kicking them out, I'm not throwing them out," Shelton said.
Instead, he's turning the tables, forcing those squatters to go to court in order to fight to get the property for themselves, as opposed to the homeowner having to go to court to get them out.
Since posting his first video on YouTube more than a year ago, Shelton has been able to do it a dozen more times.
He makes his way into homes occupied by squatters, squatting along side them until he can force them to leave. He brings cameras, recording every moment as he creates as many minor nuisances as he can until they get fed up with him.
Shelton says that the issue isn't isolated in California, and that the United Nations estimates there are at least a billion squatters worldwide.
As he continues to fight on his own terms, he's pushing for lawmakers to make things more official.
"Squatters laws never were intended for residential properties," he said. "They were never intended to support breaking into someone's house."
Shelton contends that there needs to be a clearer definition between tenant rights and squatter rights.
"It needs to be separated out to where squatting — criminal tenants serve civil process."
Until then, he plans to continue helping as many homeowners as he can, pushing out those who don't belong.
Dissolving Trump’s business empire would stand apart in history of NY fraud law
Here's a non partisan piece on the fraud trail if you care to read it
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-business-law-courts-banks-lending-punishment-2ee9e509a28c24d0cda92da2f9a9b689
You should've read the material I posted....Nothing like you described,,, as usual
Original
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174075850
Follow up
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The squatter video
Not hard if you really want to find it....People are taking advantage of laws ment to protect people from predatory landlord and bank evictions......Now the laws are working in the squatters favor....Homeowners can be arrested for trying to remove squatters and are to........One handyman has learned to out smart the system and the squatters....
The vid in question
Venezuelan migrant tells his followers on social media that you can just squat in people's homes in the US to take them over. pic.twitter.com/aa75uDTZSU
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) March 20, 2024
You earned 'It'
For a Psychopath on a government watch list you never fail....
Dems joined in the attack....Yes indeed its bigger than just CA....
And yes it goes back to Thatcher, Reagan and The Lewis Powell Memo...... It started with Carter somewhat with the dems, then it was All In with Clinton... The dems literally sold out America and became apart of the attack spoken of........It will be our demise.....
We’re in the middle of an attack on our essential nature, she says, an attack on our economic and emotional well-being.
The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-memo-a-corporate-blueprint-to-dominate-democracy/
( too long to post, but a very good read, here is wiki)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.
Powell Memorandum, 1971
See also: Corporatocracy, Merchants of Doubt, Inverted totalitarianism, and Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
On August 23, 1971, prior to accepting Nixon's nomination to the Supreme Court, Powell was commissioned by his neighbor Eugene B. Sydnor Jr., a close friend and education director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to write a confidential memorandum for the chamber entitled "Attack on the American Free Enterprise System," an anti-Communist and anti-New Deal blueprint for conservative business interests to retake America.[16][17] It was based in part on Powell's reaction to the work of activist Ralph Nader, whose 1965 exposé on General Motors, Unsafe at Any Speed, put a focus on the auto industry putting profit ahead of safety, which triggered the American consumer movement. Powell saw it as an undermining of the power of private business and a step toward socialism.[16] His experiences as a corporate lawyer and a director on the board of Phillip Morris from 1964 until his appointment to the Supreme Court made him a champion of the tobacco industry who railed against the growing scientific evidence linking smoking to cancer deaths.[16] He argued, unsuccessfully, that tobacco companies' First Amendment rights were being infringed when news organizations were not giving credence to the cancer denials of the industry.[16]
The memo called for corporate America to become more aggressive in molding society's thinking about business, government, politics and law in the US. It inspired wealthy heirs of earlier American industrialists, the Earhart Foundation (whose money came from an oil fortune), and the Smith Richardson Foundation (from the cough medicine dynasty)[16] to use their private charitable foundations-which did not have to report their political activities-to join the Carthage Foundation, founded by Richard Mellon Scaife in 1964.[16] The Carthage Foundation pursued Powell's vision of a pro-business, anti-socialist, minimally government-regulated America based on what he thought America had been in the heyday of early American industrialism, before the Great Depression and the rise of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
The Powell Memorandum ultimately came to be a blueprint for the rise of the American conservative movement and the formation of a network of influential right-wing think tanks and lobbying organizations, such as the Business Roundtable, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and inspired the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to become far more politically active.[18][19][20] CUNY professor David Harvey traces the rise of neoliberalism in the US to this memo.[21][22] Historian Gary Gerstle refers to the memo as "a neoliberal call to arms."[18] Political scientist Aaron Good describes it as an "inverted totalitarian manifesto" designed to identify threats to the established economic order following the democratic upsurge of the 1960s.[23]
Powell argued, "The most disquieting voices joining the chorus of criticism came from perfectly respectable elements of society: from the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians." In the memorandum, Powell advocated "constant surveillance" of textbook and television content, as well as a purge of left-wing elements. He named consumer advocate Nader as the chief antagonist of American business. Powell urged conservatives to undertake a sustained media-outreach program, including funding neoliberal scholars, publishing books, papers, popular magazines, and scholarly journals, and influencing public opinion.[24][25]
This memo foreshadowed a number of Powell's court opinions, especially First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, which shifted the direction of First Amendment law by declaring that corporate financial influence of elections by independent expenditures should be protected with the same vigor as individual political speech. Much of the future Court opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission relied on the same arguments raised in Bellotti.
Although written confidentially for Sydnor at the Chamber of Commerce, it was discovered by Washington Post columnist Jack Anderson, who reported on its content a year later (after Powell had joined the Supreme Court). Anderson alleged that Powell was trying to undermine the democratic system; however, in terms of business's view of itself in relation to government and public interest groups, the memo could be alternatively read to simply convey conventional thinking among businessmen at the time. The explicit goal of the memo was not to destroy democracy, though its emphasis on political institution-building as a concentration of big business power, particularly updating the Chamber's efforts to influence federal policy, has had that effect.[26] Here, it was a major force in motivating the Chamber and other groups to modernize their efforts to lobby the federal government. Following the memo's directives, conservative foundations greatly increased, pouring money into think-tanks. This rise of conservative lobbying led to the conservative intellectual movement and its increasing influence over mainstream political discourse, starting in the 1970s and 1980s, and due chiefly to the works of the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation.[27]
You will find there is no want or desire to understand one simple fact, that we all have more in common than we don't.......
On to say you will also find that these are not Good people by any definition of the word.......They've gone on to create there own problems by supporting the few over the many by being corporate apologists and what that greed has brought to the country and world. Its a failure to accept those facts that trigger them, they are contrary to what they want to believe.......
There is no leading by example, only the game of zero sum politics.....
Read their own posts is what I'd tell them, Good people?
Nearly 2/3s think charges are politically motivated......Now to deny that, is living in a bubble
Just the first one that came up when you search.....outside of your bubble
62 percent in new poll say federal charges against Trump politically motivated
BY OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN - 06/21/23 4:13 PM ET
https://thehill.com/homenews/4061063-62-percent-in-new-poll-say-federal-charges-against-trump-politically-motivated/
Nearly two-thirds of Americans polled in a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday said the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) case against former President Trump over the mishandling of classified documents after he left the White House is mainly motivated by politics.
(Duly noted the 1:30am time mark ;)
Lets forget the state for a minute and its reputation.......As noted before, most of the homeless were once housed, and to get rehoused is beyond their means considering the high cost of living....Remember too, most are employed...And as the writing put it, its a myth that most suffer mental health issues other than simple depression and anxiety....
With 17 billion already spent, going to administrative solutions that never make it to the streets......This is the newest solution.........
Headline politics just doesn't work, not in this state, not the country as a whole.....There is some good stuff in here indeed....But the underlying reason for the homeless crisis is still where the road ends,,,,Income inequity out of control,,,,,,,,,But its better to make headlines
Good timing I might add considering the discussion........Today's headline
California voters pass Proposition 1 to tackle the state's homelessness crisis
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/21/1239811952/california-proposition-1-homeless
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the state's homelessness crisis, in a tissue-thin win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who personally campaigned for the measure's passage.
Democrats outnumber Republicans by a staggering 2-to-1 in California, and the borderline vote — coming more than two weeks after election day — signaled unease with the state's homeless policies after Newsom's administration invested billions of dollars to get people off the street but no dramatic change has been seen in Los Angeles and other large cities
The state accounts for nearly a third of the homeless population in the United States; roughly 181,000 Californians are in need of housing.
Newsom, who made the measure a signature proposal, spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf. He raised more than $13 million to promote it with the support of law enforcement, first responders, hospitals and mayors of major cities. Opponents raised just $1,000.
Proposition 1 marks the first update to the state's mental health system in 20 years.
"This is the biggest change in decades in how California tackles homelessness, and a victory for doing things radically different," Newsom said in a statement after the borderline vote. "Now, counties and local officials must match the ambition of California voters. This historic reform will only succeed if we all kick into action immediately – state government and local leaders, together."
Counties will now be required to spend about two-thirds of the money from a voter-approved tax enacted in 2004 on millionaires for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems.
The state, with a current inventory of 5,500 beds, needs some 8,000 more units to treat mental health and addiction issues.
The initiative also allows the state to borrow $6.38 billion to build 4,350 housing units, half of which will be reserved for veterans, and add 6,800 mental health and addiction treatment beds.
Opponents, including social service providers and county officials, said the change will threaten programs that are not solely focused on housing or drug treatment but keep people from becoming homeless in the first place.
Critics said the single formula could mean rural counties such as Butte, with a homeless population of fewer than 1,300 people, would be required to divert the same percentage of funds to housing as urban counties such as San Francisco, which has a homeless population six times bigger.
With makeshift tents lining streets and disrupting businesses in communities across the state, homelessness has become one of the most frustrating issues in California and one sure to dog Newsom should he ever mount a national campaign.
Newsom touted the proposition as the final piece in his plan to reform California's mental health system. He has already pushed for laws that make it easier to force people with behavioral health issues into treatment.
William Elias, a television producer in Sacramento, said he "was on the fence" about Proposition 1 but decided to vote in favor of it because of the pervasive homelessness problem.
Homelessness is compounded by more people losing housing because its unaffordable
"That's something that's all around us right now," he said. "We got all these tents out here in front of City Hall."
Estrellita Vivirito, a Palm Springs resident, also voted 'yes' on the measure.
"It's only logical, you know, we have to do something," she said.
Katherine Wolf, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, said she voted 'no' on the measure out of concerns it would result in more people being locked up against their will.
"I was appalled of the system of laws that he has been building to kind of erode the rights of people with mental disabilities," Wolf said of Newsom.
Griffin Bovee, a Republican state worker in Sacramento, also voted against the proposition and said the state has been wasting taxpayer money.
"Sacramento really shouldn't get another dime until they actually figure out why what they're doing is not working," he said of the state's handling of the homelessness crisis. "They spent $20 billion over the past few years trying to fix that problem and it got worse."
Revenue from the tax on millionaires, now between $2 billion and $3 billion a year, provides about one-third of the state's total mental health budget.
Opponents, including some county officials, mental health service providers and some Republicans, said the ballot measure would cut funding from cultural centers, peer-support programs and vocational services and would pit those programs against services for homeless people.
Newsom's administration has already spent at least $22 billion on various programs to address the crisis, including $3.5 billion to convert rundown motels into homeless housing. California is also giving out $2 billion in grants to build more treatment facilities.
Just telling you how it looks outside of your bubble.....There is a whole world outside of it, let's say 70 million people
Me personally, I think one case surrounding Jan 6 and all it aspects was the proper way to go....Given the times, historically and stay beyond reproach....
Twist and turn. Screw you and your blatantly dishonest spin
Nothing dishonest about this at all.....It is what it is.....Dems haven't been to smart in the way they've gone after Trump...First you broadcast your intentions.....a then you have crimes that are a stretch of the law....Biden and Hunter both doing wrong in their own way, on to dems condoning to keeping him off the ballot unconstitutionally..........
Just what kind of narrative did you think they'd play to.....And they are playing it and people see your actions and charges and say yep, just abuse of power.......
The feds turned down braggs case....James ran on get trump....Fani has made a debacle of Georgia......Biden made the docs case look political now too.......Feds were much more deliberate and the states are now looking amateurish and just feeding the fire.......Toss in the impeachments btw
Its like your saying We (dems) are a threat, loud and proud...
"Well in fact dems are trying to jail someone they don't want as president again...They've made no bones about it and of course the right and Trump use it to say you are abusing power and a threat to democracy.......
Its not dishonest spin, its how half the country is looking at your actions and words....'Get him, we can never allow Trump to be pres again"
Now Now, telling people what to think or say.....Another one of those progressive over reaches.....
Were you offended? Get over it, it a real world out there and everyone is not a progressive.... In fact, if dems are now just 25% of voter and progs are say half of that.......People are tired of your relentless lack of common sense....
Now, would it be better to let others have their opinions and debate on the merits....That is truly the American way....Progressives should get back to that....
Nah, Ill stick to the post....Progressives picked a really bad time to go to all the extremes they have.....And this just pointed out a couple.....
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174075383
Well in fact dems are trying to jail someone they don't want as president again...They've made no bones about it and of course the right and Trump use it to say you are abusing power and a threat to democracy.......
Things like th CO decision play right into it too......Truth is, you can't beat him on the issues, Biden is way under water on all but one.....So dems best hope is Trump beating himself, which he probably will do, but one never knows these days....
All roads lead back to income inequity........That 3 to 500 dollars is just to break even not get ahead......I think it went on to say most of the homeless were once in housing and lost it.....
So, think of the 65% who say the economy no longer works for them.....Have little to no savings, no emergency fund and are paying an average of 20% on their credit cards.....Leads to that unhappiness thingy.......
Katie had the math right (if you remember) but pundits fail to do it and therefore don't understand the modern economic situation...The millennial generation 'are doing the math....Back to that American dream death...
So, in summary, all to many are just a emergency away from homelessness.... Then the ability to get rehoused is beyond reach....
OK, Ill bite (dems this dems that ;) Quick comment......Progressives completely forget the sheer brutality of Hamas,,,,,,To the point they had youngsters backing Osama Bin Laden......Speaks volumes to the previous extremes argument........
Till Israel is willing to have a two state solution with Arab countries providing their security and monitor their aid and let them get their footing (which Hamas wont either)....It wont get any better.......Netanyahu will have to go to achieve that (not that I'm a Schumer fan) and Hamas too...
But you can't back people like Hamas or Bin laden.....And expect to have credibility.......
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2023/11/16/why-bin-ladens-letter-went-viral-on-tiktok-00127618
Understanding the horrors of war is a different subject all together,,,Someday the press will show the real images of it, not just talking the politics behind it.....Then and only then do we have a chance to bring the art of war to an end world wide...
Good for her,,,,, Hopefully it didn't go to the administrative crowd as most monies do....CA spent billions on homelessness, still getting worse.... Billions have been appropriated for the inner cities, wonder where it all went.....
California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The problem has gotten worse
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/us/california-homeless-spending/index.html
Updated 11:41 PM EDT, Tue July 11, 2023
Homelessness crisis in California worsens despite state spending billions to fight it
California has spent a stunning $17.5 billion trying to combat homelessness over just four years. But, in the same time frame, from 2018 to 2022, the state’s homeless population actually grew. Half of all Americans living outside on the streets, federal data shows, live in California.
Across the country, homelessness is on the rise. But California is adding more homeless people every year than any other state. More than 170,000 unhoused people now live here.
“The problem would be so much worse, absent these interventions,” Jason Elliott, senior adviser on homelessness to Gov. Gavin Newsom, told CNN. “And that’s not what people want to hear. I get it, we get it.”
But with $17.5 billion, the state could, theoretically, have just paid the rent for every unhoused person in California for those four years, even at the state’s high home costs.
“That is reductive … Perhaps that would work for me, because I don’t have significant behavioral health challenges.” said Elliott. “If two thirds of people on the streets right now are experiencing mental health symptoms, we can’t just pay their rent.”
A new study found most homeless people in California last had a home in California, dispelling the myth that people come to the state specifically for homeless help.
The admittedly reductive math would leave nearly $4 billion for services like mental health treatment. But even if California did want to pay rent for every homeless person, there just isn’t enough affordable housing to go around.
“We need 2.5 million more units in California,” said Elliott. “This is a problem that is decades and decades in the making because of policy choices that we’ve made. We are not blameless. And when I say we, I mean Republicans and Democrats alike.”
A total of $20.6 billion has been allocated through 2024 to combat homelessness. Nearly $4 billion went to local governments to spend on anti-homelessness initiatives. $3.7 billion went to a program called Project Homekey, which also funds local governments, but specifically to buy properties like motels and commercial buildings to turn into permanent, affordable housing. So far 13,500 units have been finished. “It’s not enough,” said Elliott. “But reversing the slide is the first step to creating an increase.”
Cristina Smith recently moved into one of the new affordable units in Los Angeles. After five years without a home she had, like many, given up hope. “I thought it was fake,” she told CNN affiliate KCBS. “Until they gave me the keys and then I was like this is real. You don’t believe it after a while.”
A further $2 billion from the huge pot went toward tax credits for developers to build affordable housing, which has seen 481 new units completed so far, with thousands more anticipated. Another $2 billion went to kick-start affordable housing projects, stalled by funding shortfalls. And nearly $2 billion was spent on emergency rental assistance.
California has, in recent years, suffered devastating wildfire seasons and, of course, the Covid pandemic. Both put extra pressure on housing.
“It’s frustrating, it’s frustrating … It’s frustrating for us,” said Elliott. “At the end of the day if we want to truly solve homelessness in America. We need to build more housing.”
Dr. Margot Kushel, who worked with Elliott to formulate a pandemic plan for the state’s homeless population, just published a hefty report, the results of a survey of nearly 3,200 unhoused people across California she hails as “the largest representative study of homelessness since the mid-1990s.” Kushel, who is director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, was commissioned by the state to find out who is homeless in California and why, in the hope her data might help fine-tune the state’s response to what Newsom has called “a disgrace.”
Politicians, and many voters, want solutions. Newsom devoted his entire State of the State speech in 2020 to the issue. In a recent poll, 84% of Californians said they think homelessness is a “very serious problem.” In Los Angeles, the issue dominated last year’s mayoral race with the winner, Karen Bass, declaring a state of emergency on homelessness on her very first day in office.
Kushel’s report dispelled some myths. Number one, that many people on the street don’t want a home. Not true, says Kushel. “Participants overwhelmingly wanted permanent housing,” she concludes in the report.
Number two, that many people on the streets of California are not from California. There’s a widely held belief that many people become homeless elsewhere, and come to California for the weather and the more liberal approach to homelessness. And therefore, California does not owe them anything. Not true, says Kushel.
“Nine out of 10 people lost their stable housing here. These are Californians,” she said. “We have to create the housing for all Californians".
Myth number 3: that mental illness is the driving force behind homelessness. Yes, 66% of respondents did report, “symptoms of mental health conditions currently,” which is the statistic quoted by Elliott, the governor’s adviser, to argue a solution is more complicated than just writing rent checks. But Kushel questioned if mental health problems led to homelessness, or the other way round.
“Most of that, half of people, had severe depression or severe anxiety – not surprising if you were experiencing homelessness,” she said.
Still, tackling mental health issues among the unhoused is a major plank in the Newsom administration’s effort. “We’re taking a new approach,” he said last spring when unveiling his mental health plan, “Rather than reforming in the margins a system that is foundationally and fundamentally broken.”
Part of the new approach is, controversially, to effectively force some people into mental health help – allowing relatives, social services or medical personnel to refer people to be considered for a court-ordered treatment program.
“Just tackling the mental health side can’t solve the problem,” says Kushel. “Not when the median rent is $2,200 for a two-bedroom apartment.”
Which brings us back to the need for 2.5 million more homes. The state does have a plan to build them all by 2030. But here in California, like elsewhere, housing and zoning decisions are down to local governments.
“We’ve got communities in this state that are refusing to build low-income housing,” Elliott, the governor’s adviser, told CNN. “Because they say it’s all just rapists and child molesters. So that’s, that’s, that’s the dynamic that we’re facing, right?”
The state is suing a number of wealthier cities for thwarting the construction of affordable housing within their borders.
There aren’t enough affordable houses in California, therefore rents are too high.
“The primary problem for homelessness is economics,” said Kushel. “People just don’t have the money … to pay the rent.”
Dr. Margot Kushel said getting people into permanent housing -- not just off the street -- needs to be the focus.
Dr. Margot Kushel said getting people into permanent housing -- not just off the street -- needs to be the focus. CNN
So, how much money would people need to make up the shortfall and stay in their homes? “One of the surprising things was how optimistic people were that relatively small amounts of money would have prevented their homelessness,” Kushel said of the people surveyed. “For a lot of them, that $300 or $500 a month would do the trick.”
The Newsom administration is spending more to combat homelessness than this state ever has before. Prior to 2018 there was no coherent statewide plan or funding structure. But, they say, the state needs help. “The federal government needs to get in the game and do what it used to do, which is provide housing as a guarantee,” said Elliott. He says for every four Americans in need of a housing voucher, there is just one voucher available.
“Food stamps are a guarantee. Health care is a guarantee. Public education is a guarantee,” he said. “Housing? 25% chance. Spin the wheel.”
Asked how state officials have reacted to her report and recommendations, Kushel replied, “I think they’re on board. I hope, I think they’re relatively on board. I don’t agree with everything, but I think they’re trying.” Asked what she doesn’t agree with, Kushel demurred, “Oh, gosh, I don’t know. I mean, as you can hear, I really want to have a single-minded focus on getting people into permanent housing and I think that is the root of how we end homelessness.” She did agree some politicians might be more focused on the window dressing of getting people off the street, into shelters or motels, rather than actually into permanent housing.
“I couldn’t disagree more with that characterization,” said Elliott. “We’re facing a tidal wave and we’re doing the best we can – to mix metaphors a little bit – to paddle out from that and to try to tread water and do as best we can while we try to make the fundamental change necessary both in California and at the national level to truly address homelessness.”
In Los Angeles, the epicenter of the homelessness crisis in the Golden State, Mayor Bass launched a program called Inside Safe, to clear street encampments. At a roundtable with reporters recently, she was keen to trumpet the success of moving more than 1,300 people off the streets into motels but refused to even estimate how many of those people have been moved into permanent housing. The 2023-2024 city budget includes $250 million for Inside Safe. From the total, $110 million will be used to pay for temporary motels. $21 million will be used for permanent housing.
I know one woman in Los Angeles who was moved from a tent into a motel room nearly 200 days ago under Inside Safe. She is still there and says there is still not even a plan to move her into a permanent home. She says she’s frustrated and losing hope.
There is no silver bullet.
“They’re trying really hard to keep people alive,” said Kushel. “And they’re kind of stuck in this vicious cycle of not having the housing to send people to.”
Its also a lack of critical this thinking,,,,Im so caught up in being the member of a side,,,,,I can no longer think for myself or see with my own eyes....Please! Someone tell me what to think, Lol...(not aimed at you)
I never really considered the issue outta my general liberal stance for most things of "whatever".
The whole issue is a great example of overboard liberal thinking,,,,Progressives to be exact.....Civil rights has evened out quite well (note Mahers progressaphobia)and now progressives seem to have to go after more extreme things to be outraged about even breaking the point of common sense......
All the while the biggest issues the American public face are dismissed and even ignored....
To the trans rights bit in sports,,,,,,It works against women's rights they fought hard to attain....And libs helped them get there.....Similar to libs going against workers they once helped attain workers rights and equity to fall in line with corporate greed....Note also their extreme immigration stance has real consequences, not of bigotry, but ramifications in a modern world, now they feel it in the once protected cities............Crime is another issue, petty crime to be exact, decriminalize shoplifting and no bail and the cities are unbearable to the point of a business exodus......Look at the homelessness that now is prevalent,, now add evicted migrants..........It's all how we end up in the world as it sits today and the pumpers will twist any truth, bashers,, as always point out truths painted over that cost the many........Did I mention free speech? Here is one I saved for ya...........https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jk-rowlings-dehumanizing-misgendering-post-reported-to-uk-police-tv-personality-says/ar-BB1jwH6J
You spoke of happiness, note Gallop's Happiness ranking for the US now...
Call it the pendulum swing in all things, dems and progressives have gone to extremes counterintuitive to their old values.....Extremes beget extremes......
Like education,,,,,,US now 23rd in 'Happiness'......."Life, Liberty and the pursuit of.....Happiness " ?
Boomers who paved the way for the US economic decline are happy as you know what.......Youth and 30 something young families feel the real world economics boomers left in their wake....
U.S. drops in new global happiness ranking. One age group bucks the trend
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/20/1239537074/u-s-drops-in-new-global-happiness-ranking-one-age-group-bucks-the-trend
How happy are you? The Gallup World Poll has a simple way to gauge well-being around the globe.
Imagine a ladder, and think about your current life. The top rung, 10, represents the best possible life and the bottom rung, 0, represents the worst. Pick your number.
Researchers use the responses to rank happiness in countries around the globe, and the 2024 results have just been released.
This year, Finland is at the top of the list. Researchers point to factors including high levels of social support and healthy life expectancy, to explain the top perch of several Scandinavian countries.
North America does not fare as well overall. As a nation, the United States dropped in the global ranking from 15th to 23rd. But researchers point to striking generational divides.
People aged 60 and older in the U.S. reported high levels of well-being compared to younger people. In fact, the United States ranks in the top 10 countries for happiness in this age group.
Conversely, there's a decline in happiness among younger adolescents and young adults in the U.S. "The report finds there's a dramatic decrease in the self-reported well-being of people aged 30 and below," says editor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, a professor of economics and behavioral science, and the director of the Wellbeing Research Centre at Oxford University.
This drop among young adults is also evident in Canada, Australia and, to a lesser extent in parts of western Europe and Britain, too. "We knew that a relationship existed between age and happiness, but the biggest surprise is that it is more nuanced than we previously thought, and it is changing," says Ilana Ron-Levey, managing director at Gallup.
"In North America, youth happiness has dropped below that of older adults," Ron-Levey says. The rankings are based on responses from a representative sample of about 1,000 respondents in each country.
There are a range of factors that likely explain these shifts.
De Neve and his collaborators say the relatively high level of well-being among older adults is not too surprising. Researchers have long seen a U-shaped curve to happiness.
Children are typically happy, and people tend to hit the bottom (of the U) of well-being in middle age. By 60, life can feel more secure, especially for people with good health, financial stability and strong social connections. Living in a country with a strong social safety net can also help.
"The big pressures in life, [such as] having small children, a mortgage to pay, and work, have likely tapered off a bit," De Neve says. But what's so unexpected he says is the extent to which well-being has fallen among young adults.
"We would expect youth to actually start out at a higher level of well-being than middle-age individuals," De Neve says.
"People are hearing that the world is going to hell in a handbasket and the young especially are feeling more threatened by it," says John Helliwell, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, and a co-author of the study.
He says many younger people may feel the weight of climate change, social inequities, and political polarization which can all be amplified on social media.
But hope is not lost, Helliwell says.
He points to countries in eastern Europe where levels of well-being are on the rise among young people.
He says the older generations in the countries that make up the former Yugoslavia, tend to be less happy. "They are bearing the scars of genocide and conflict," he says.
But he says the younger people are looking beyond this history. "A new generation can put it in the past and think of building a better future and feel that they can be part of that," Helliwell says.
Dems have enabled Trump right back to a dead even race.......Let me count the ways,,Lol
Being dismissive, fummbumbling along and breeding more division like no one sees them and their actions....Its a pure politics world, not one of reaching out and understanding the American public......Governing in a bubble is the opposite of what the country can rally behind...
Dems.....2 impeachments, 91 counts, 2 high dollar judgements against.....
And you're losing to that record....Even at best. Not much more can be added to him that hasn't already been said, What dems don't understand that not much can be added about them either....
but Won’t Vote for Biden Either,,,,,,,,'never' the exact word
Dems are leaving out a bit, as usual, both parties care little about truth and will take anything and spin it... Severe lack of integrity in politics, now more than ever...Its not debate class....Pence wont endorse Trump (kudos) and he may or may not vote for him....But he also said, ,'he'd never vote for Biden....
Pence Says He Won’t Endorse Trump, but Won’t Vote for Biden Either
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/politics/mike-pence-trump-endorsement.html
“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” he told Martha MacCallum on her show “The Story.”
The former vice president declined to say whether he would vote for Mr. Trump in the November election, but answered, “I would never vote for Joe Biden.” He also ruled out running for president as a third-party or independent candidate, saying he remained a Republican.
Riley Gaines among more than a dozen college athletes suing NCAA over transgender policies
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/riley-gaines-college-athletes-lawsuit-ncaa-transgender-policies/
We know some of the topics dems have seen as national priorities over the past 3 yrs........This one is off to the courts
It would have made a great epilogue to his book......Biden was President for 7mos prior....He had generals who warned him in no uncertain terms and Milley is no slouch is he?
Let parties spin it all they want to their advantage, and to their own embarrassment.....Its not a partisan issue and the whole world watched it too....
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/73268-biden-books-go-to-flatiron.html
Afghan Withdraw Hearing.....Generals Milley and McKenzie were able to speak freely for the first time.....But as the 2 generals spoke with honesty, the two parties engaged in more of the same old, trying to spin everything to the narrative they want to sell.....So just more of the two parties partisan idiots doing everything but listening to 2 generals that hold no bias and were now free to tell the truth...
Different when its in Dems backyard isn't it....
Chicago begins evicting migrants from shelters as residents decry a 'lack of respect'
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna143961
CHICAGO — Chicago has begun evicting some migrants from its shelters, a controversial policy that had been delayed for months but appeared haphazard, a migrant told NBC News on Monday.
Migrants who have been evicted, as well as those who face a rapidly approaching deadline, said there has been widespread confusion about the process and frustration with being forced to leave while they still lack the resources to find their own places to stay.
NYC now evicting migrants from shelters and hotels
Migrant families begin leaving NYC hotels as first eviction notices kick in
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-migrant-families-nyc-hotels-eviction-2695569da82a91c9f802108919b28c71
NEW YORK (AP) — Migrant families were moved out of a midtown Manhattan hotel on Tuesday as part of Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to ease the pressure on New York City’s strained shelter system by imposing a 60-day limit on shelter stays.
Dems getting a taste of reality......
If you let a bully, bully people (Putin) all the other bullies see it....unintended consequence maybe, but real all the same...And it even started as early as Georgia with Bush and Crimea with Obama,,,,,,,,,The Ukraine invasion should have been the line in the sand.....
When the world, especially the US and UK, stood back and let Putin invade Ukraine, they sent a message not only to Putin but every dictator in the world........
Not to mention no country in the world in its right mind would ever sign a security agreement with the US (or UK) again and have any confidence that we'd keep it after we get what we want......
Why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons — and what that means in an invasion by Russia
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-putin-invasion
Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize.
In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum.
On to say you can't just give speeches and sound tough with no teeth and think dictators will cower in fear....
Biden's, (The US's) latest red line is Navaloly,,,,,Tough talk didn't stop Putin from killing him did it....Saying 'Don't' didn't stop the Houthis (nor did Biden's meagre deterrence).... Think Biden's (The US) new red line with Netanyahu is going to stop 'him?
The most hollow speech ever given by a US president
'beyond reproach'.....Enough said
SHE is indeed......And most likely will remain on the case but the DA is the face of the case...
So, the facts will remain, but the prosecutor prosecuting it is stained.......let that sink in with the politics involved
This case is not as simple as just the facts of it is it........Like an asterisk next to a sports record and this is a historic case in The US.......
Its stained,, believe what you will for your own purposes....So goes politics as the other side will believe as they will to
What's bad is the door was left open for the other side by not giving the case the respect it deserved.....
Was that anyone's point on the matter?....Its the staining of the case and the unprofessional manner in which Fani conducted herself.......
The case deserved Integrity.....Damage done
Fulton County DA Fani Willis case against Trump can continue if she or special prosecutor Wade remove themselves, judge rules
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna139810
........The judge also found there was no "actual conflict" brought about by the relationship, a finding that would have required Willis to be disqualified. "Without sufficient evidence that the District Attorney acquired a personal stake in the prosecution, or that her financial arrangements had any impact on the case, the Defendants’ claims of an actual conflict must be denied," the judge wrote.
“This finding is by no means an indication that the Court condones this tremendous lapse in judgment or the unprofessional manner of the District Attorney’s testimony during the evidentiary hearing. Rather, it is the undersigned’s opinion that Georgia law does not permit the finding of an actual conflict for simply making bad choices — even repeatedly — and it is the trial court’s duty to confine itself to the relevant issues and applicable law properly brought before it,” he added.
The judge did, however, also find “the prosecution is encumbered by an appearance of impropriety.” "As the case moves forward, reasonable members of the public could easily be left to wonder whether the financial exchanges have continued resulting in some form of benefit to the District Attorney, or even whether the romantic relationship has resumed," he wrote. "As long as Wade remains on the case, this unnecessary perception will persist."
McAfee made his decision,,,,,,The 2 sides will both still make hay though.....Im sure Wade and Willis will do the right thing.......