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In the summer of 2019, Fox News embarked on an ambitious project to chronicle the toll progressive policies have had on the homeless crisis in four West Coast cities: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. In each city, we saw a lack of safety, sanitation and civility. Residents, the homeless and advocates say they’ve lost faith in their elected officials’ ability to solve the issue. Most of the cities have thrown hundreds of millions of dollars at the problem only to watch it get worse. This is what we saw in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES — It’s the stale stench of liquor and human waste that hits you first. Then it’s visual — row after row of dirty tarp tents crammed together on the sidewalk next to piles of rotting trash and broken appliances. There are half-dressed, drugged-out shells of people wandering aimlessly in the middle of the street. Some curse at cars. Others just stare. There are fights, prostitution and rodent burrows. This is the fabled Skid Row in Los Angeles and it’s a disaster.
Like several West Coast cities Fox News visited, Los Angeles is dealing with a homeless crisis. However, unlike the East Coast, LA can’t hide all of its homeless in shelters or low-income housing.
Failed liberal policies coupled with decades of neglect and mismanagement have turned an old problem into a modern-day nightmare. Some fear the City of Angels is at the point of no return and are angry at elected officials who talk a big game but rarely deliver.
“I don’t want to see them on camera anymore,” Marquesha Babers, who lived on Skid Row as a teenager, told Fox News. “I don’t want them to write any more articles about how much they care or how much they’re trying to change things. I want to see them do it.”
Across the state, officials have long lamented the horrors of homelessness while failing to pass any meaningful legislation. Homeless advocates accuse those in charge of using the crisis to further their own political aspirations and manipulating an environment that allows them to dodge accountability.
“The best we get out of those elected to deal with problems are soundbites,” Pete White, the founder of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, told Fox News. “Soundbites that say ‘it’s a humanitarian crisis’ and that ‘we have to do something’ only to see that something be either nothing or pathways to criminalization.” more here
If you subsidize it, they will come.
Applies to pretty much everything.
Sadly, it doesn’t really matter. The city / county will still elect a Democrat, even if it doesn’t end up in a change.
I am at a loss as to why some people will ignore, or not even acknowledge, what is causing the problem.
Democrats count the votes in California. If a republican won a democrat would still hold the office.
Absolute, concrete proof that money is not the solution! That being said, shut off the Federal Spigot and stop wasting MY hard-earned tax dollars on something I don’t support, something that NO ONE should support and stop the democRATs from building yet a nuther voter plantation of dependency!
With all the MONEY flowing through Hollyweird, let them fix it. Oh wait! They are too busy diddlying each other to pay enough attention what is decaying around them.
A major American city with a drug and homeless problem?
Why I is shocked and appalled. Appalled I says. Hell, I might even be a bit Ringofied.
And that’s just LA.
Spend a little time in the SF Bay Area, its no better.
it will take an major public breakout of some third world disease
before anything might be done, and the only thing that can be done relies on the ballot box. So, that won’t happen. Then what? Travel bans and involuntary quarantines?
California is right on the edge of chaos cliff, and nothing is slowing the fall.
Aaron Burr – You’re correct. What city does not has those problems. The magnitude of the homeless population, and how they are living, in LA and the Bay Area has to be seen first hand to be understood. Sacramento, where I have lived since the 1970s, has its own, very large, homeless population and no solutions discovered by the local prog demo idiots who’ve been running the city for decades. You really need to see all it to believe.
You start where you do with EVERY shithole:
FLUSH!!!! 💩
As long as the uninformed; MSM educated, continue to listen to the ‘MSM’ and NOT challenge their BULLSHIT, the commies will prevail.
Those that refuse to ‘think’ for themselves will forever be enslaved by the very leaches that wish to enslave them.
Ghost, 43 Billion.
https://deadline.com/2018/07/film-industry-revenue-2017-ibisworld-report-gloomy-box-office-1202425692/
I live here (splitting my time between Los Feliz and my cabin in Putnam County, NY) and this is a positive shithole that is getting worse. Don’t bother with that jive Fox video. Same old. The quality of life, of respect and courtesy, is gone, like a cool breeze.
My wife made me delete it but I shot a video in our neighborhood while stopped at a light. A middle-aged (meth-looking) woman squatted near a bus stop, off Los Feliz Blvd, defectated and while wiping, gave the finger to us looking. Right behind this bench: https://bit.ly/2KUpEnt And they live in the banks of the LA “River,” a concrete wash/bayou that runs only when it rains. Next thunderstorm expect loss of life. They set up camps along the bike way and in that island in the river (which is dry now.) https://bit.ly/2ZjtfV6
I would watch “Seattle Is Dying” whic h is a better produced film and points the finger more at the lib jack asses who perpetuate this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
My point is that the lawlessness is creeping up. We live next to Spike Jonze and a drunken vagrant broke in last month and held him at knife point until Spike fled. SWAT came. All for one drunk. I am here for one reason only: I love my TV working wife (I know…as Groucho said, “I love my cigar but I take it out once in awhile.”)
I would watch “Seattle Is Dying” which is better produced and points the finger squarely at the libtard assholes who perpetuate it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
When they vote out the Democrats I’ll be ready to believe they’re fed up. Until then, zzzzzzz.
L.A. has one of the most powerful Free-Shit-No-Accountability magnets in America. Eats up 25% of L A’s annual budget. It’s working as advertised. Southern California liberals unable to connect the dots. Can’t figure out why all those feral, free range, drug addicted, unmotivated, mentally defective bums come to their wealthy city where democrats campaign on promises to give away more free shit.
Drug addicts and czazy people. And that’s just the LA city council and mayor!