Los Angeles is certainly not without its glitz and glamour.
But spend a little more time looking, and you’ll quickly find that homelessness is a very serious problem there. Given how serious a problem it is, it makes sense for the local government to fund programs to alleviate it.
But in reality, the way it’s going, homelessness is only going to get worse:
L.A. Homeless Policy Is a Billion-Dollar Failure | City Journal by @SoledadUrsua https://t.co/voBfTPbBfy
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) January 13, 2022
The L.A. Homelessness Services Authority receives nearly $1 billion in annual government funding, yet “is unwilling to provide taxpayers or city departments basic information about its activities, such as a line-item scope of services or verifiable data on program outcomes.”
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) January 13, 2022
Unwilling? At the very least, taxpayers should be entitled to know how their money is being used. Lord knows that L.A. takes in plenty of taxpayer money.
This is unbelievable https://t.co/5dQjUuE8PG
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 (@senatorshoshana) January 13, 2022
Or it should be unbelievable … unfortunately, given what we know about how governments tend to operate, we can totally believe it.
Why would they want to solve the problem if they receive 1 billion, they'd be all unemployed if the problem solved, so show must go on.
— hedgefundguy (@hedgefundguy3) January 13, 2022
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner. That’s exactly it. It appears that to the LAHSA, taxpayers’ money is there to line their pockets and little else. And this is really how most government works. Problems don’t get solved so much as created in order to justify throwing more money at the problems, which in turn justifies demanding more money from taxpayers.
Government + $$$$ (more times than not) = chaos/corruption/waste.
— Mark Schouten (@MarkSchouten3) January 13, 2022
The government does not solve problems they manage them. No money in solving shit. Bet a lot of brothers, cousins, in laws and kids got some juicy pork
— john (@rawmobile36608) January 13, 2022
Nice little scheme they’ve got there.
Must be nice to have zero accountability.
— John Freeman (@OCjpf) January 13, 2022
When government refuses transparency you must assume fraud and corruption. Period. https://t.co/l5ppKdStU4
— Rico (@ericntyler) January 13, 2022
We are watching the results of a single-party super-majority act without competitive negotiation.
— Ian Patrick Hughes (@EveryNobody) January 13, 2022
And ultimately, it’s not just taxpayers getting screwed over. It’s the homeless population, too.
If LAHSA spends $1 billion per year, that’s $15,697 for each of the 63,706 homeless people in LA. Yet people are still living in cardboard boxes under overpasses? This is a crime against humanity.
— Jim Riley (@wsjim) January 13, 2022
