LA spending up to $837,000 to house a single homeless person

[PoS]

For how long? 1 night/40 years?

Doesnt matter. Its the cost of building these things thats outrageous.

 

[mrjurrs]

Doesnt matter. Its the cost of building these things thats outrageous.

No investment should be judged solely on cost.

 

[PoS]

No investment should be judged solely on cost.

So youre okay with it? No wonder California is so ****ed.

You can always tell the right wing media parrots. LOL. If California is a "shithole", then the USA is the biggest shithole on earth because all other states if anything are bigger "shitholes" than Cali.
Get out, see the nation a lil bit PoS. It would do you some good, dont listen to am radio while you're traveling either. Stuff rots ones brain.

Will you actually address the OP for once in your life?

And Im an expat, which means Ive probably seen more of America and the world than you have.

 

[Aletheia]

The 800,000 + quoted is for literally one (cherry picked max) of 1,000+ units and 86% are below 700,000. Considering the costs of lumber and materials the last few years, it doesn't seem like a million dollar gold toilet for the military kind of excess. I'm sure you are all equally if not more outraged over those kinds of wastes.

Frankly, I'd rather 1 billion of taxpayer funds goes to help the homeless rather than subsidizing sports stadiums, when they can easily afford it out of their own bloated fortunes.

 

[Nickyjo]

Deflection aside, are you okay with politicians spending nearly $1 million to house 1 homeless person?

Love how people focus on an example or three of some dumb expenditure on poor people occurring through some complex series of factors, one at odds with the general run of such programs. Then it’s foolish California. To get perspective, think of it like some idiotic weapons system costing billions, one that duplicates some other effort, and production of which is spread over three states to get six senators to support it.

 

[mrjurrs]

So youre okay with it? No wonder California is so ****ed.



Will you actually address the OP for once in your life?

And Im an expat, which means Ive probably seen more of America and the world than you have.

Where did I ever say I'm okay with it? I said no investment is judged solely on cost. If it was the interstate hiway system would never have been built.

The op speaks only to cost.

Your claims remain claims, you know nothing of my life experience.

 

[PoS]

Where did I ever say I'm okay with it? I said no investment is judged solely on cost. If it was the interstate hiway system would never have been built.

The op speaks only to cost.

Your claims remain claims, you know nothing of my life experience.

The fact that you keep defending this kind of cost speaks a lot about who you are.

 

[slavablueberryjam]

It's a jobs program for the well-connected! There are not a lot of jobs that pay 10k a month for doing 3-10 hours of work a month like public sector jobs and contracts.

That said, California has a lot of natural beauty, the politicians ruined it; but a lot of edgy teens would blame billionaires as it is the easiest solution to do.

 

[mrjurrs]

The fact that you keep defending this kind of cost speaks a lot about who you are.

And you remain unable to present a cogent argument as to why we should only consider present costs when looking at government investment.

 

[Peter]

Can I just point out that even if this is $800k per house that isn't just for 1 person unless you think that they'll bulldoze it and rebuild every time a homeless person moves out and a new tennent moved in.
Also in the US is it physically impossible for more than 1 person to live in a house?

I know you guys think we all live in tiny shoeboxes in London or castles in the country but I live in a house with 3 adults and somehow we manage.
Yes, it's actually possible for 3 adults to live in a house!!!!!!!

 

[PoS]

And you remain unable to present a cogent argument as to why we should only consider present costs when looking at government investment.

You just keep weaseling out of the argument, as usual. But thats because you know you cant justify this kind of cost no matter how much you try and sugarcoat your kooky socialism.

Can I just point out that even if this is $800k per house that isn't just for 1 person unless you think that they'll bulldoze it and rebuild every time a homeless person moves out and a new tennent moved in.
Also in the US is it physically impossible for more than 1 person to live in a house?

I know you guys think we all live in tiny shoeboxes in London or castles in the country but I live in a house with 3 adults and somehow we manage.
Yes, it's actually possible for 3 adults to live in a house!!!!!!!

It's not for a house, it's a studio or a 1 bedroom apartment, AKA flats in the British language.

 

[American]

LA spending up to $837,000 to house a single homeless person

A $1.2 billion program intended to quickly build housing for Los Angeles’ sprawling homeless population is moving too slowly while costs are spiking, with one project under development expected to hit as much as $837,000 for each housing unit, a city audit disclosed Wednesday. About 1,200 units...

news.yahoo.com

Jesus H Christ. I cant believe California got turned into a shithole by these moronic politicians.

We should sneak all the liberals into Russia and China. They could do more damage than any army.

 

[OrphanSlug]

Whatever LA and California is doing, it is nothing more than a costly failure.

 

[mrjurrs]

You just keep weaseling out of the argument, as usual. But thats because you know you cant justify this kind of cost no matter how much you try and sugarcoat your kooky socialism.



It's not for a house, it's a studio or a 1 bedroom apartment, AKA flats in the British language.

Even for a nincompoop, the idea of judging the value of an investment by current costs is ridiculous.

 

[PoS]

Even for a nincompoop, the idea of judging the value of an investment by current costs is ridiculous.

Anyone who thinks spending close to $1 million to house one homeless person is corrupt beyond reason or just another deluded socialist who wants everyone to be poor.

 

[mrjurrs]

Anyone who thinks spending close to $1 million to house one homeless person is corrupt beyond reason or just another deluded socialist who wants everyone to be poor.

You're gonna need a source for that fat one.

 

[PoS]

You're gonna need a source for that fat one.

All one has to do is read our moronic posts to get proof.

 

[mrjurrs]

All one has to do is read our moronic posts to get proof.

I don't mind being called moronic. Glad to see you admit to being moronic

 

[PoS]

I don't mind being called moronic. Glad to see you admit to being moronic

I called your posts moronic. Which they are.

 

[American]

And you remain unable to present a cogent argument as to why we should only consider present costs when looking at government investment.

Government "investment", there's a bucket of dumb bullshit. Those two terms don't belong together, since the government can't add any value to anything, without removing it somewhere else. The government creates nothing, because there is no profit. Profit builds wealth, and that is invested.

 

[americanwoman]

LA spending up to $837,000 to house a single homeless person

A $1.2 billion program intended to quickly build housing for Los Angeles’ sprawling homeless population is moving too slowly while costs are spiking, with one project under development expected to hit as much as $837,000 for each housing unit, a city audit disclosed Wednesday. About 1,200 units...

news.yahoo.com

Jesus H Christ. I cant believe California got turned into a shithole by these moronic politicians.

That's ridiculous. Probably just going to end up like the housing authority towers here that are just an indoor version of tent cities with drugs and people damaging property that the tax payers end up paying more for.

 

[Bum]

LA spending up to $837,000 to house a single homeless person

A $1.2 billion program intended to quickly build housing for Los Angeles’ sprawling homeless population is moving too slowly while costs are spiking, with one project under development expected to hit as much as $837,000 for each housing unit, a city audit disclosed Wednesday. About 1,200 units...

news.yahoo.com

Jesus H Christ. I cant believe California got turned into a shithole by these moronic politicians.

The problem as I see it, is not the idea, or the intent, it's Government incompetence and contractor greed.....once a contractor gets a wiff of taxpayers money, suddenly all costs go through the roof.

Stricter oversight and placing contractor expenses under the microscope and in the light of day needs to happen.

Individuals can do the following, but the government cannot?

https://www.discovercontainers.com/the-cheapest-5-shipping-container-homes-ever-built/

 

[Peter]

Government "investment", there's a bucket of dumb bullshit. Those two terms don't belong together, since the government can't add any value to anything, without removing it somewhere else. The government creates nothing, because there is no profit. Profit builds wealth, and that is invested.

The government creates nothing does it?

How about all the companies that spin-off from successful start-ups funded by government-run universities.
Cambridge in the UK has literally hundreds of companies like that because of the world-leading University.
Then there's public transport funded by government that creates jobs by linking areas and people so companies have access to better staff.

I suppose that's all just dumb bullshit though.

 

[mrjurrs]

I called your posts moronic. Which they are.

No you didn't. This is your post.

"All one has to do is read our moronic posts to get proof."

As I said, glad to see your self awareness.

 

[mrjurrs]

Government "investment", there's a bucket of dumb bullshit. Those two terms don't belong together, since the government can't add any value to anything, without removing it somewhere else. The government creates nothing, because there is no profit. Profit builds wealth, and that is invested.

You mean like the federal highway system?

You may want to take a basic economics class. Don't let ideology get in the way of reality.