Los Angeles is a mess. And it’s everyone else’s fault – just ask the mayor.
First some statistics – as excerpted from Sam Levin’s article for London’s Daily Mail:
There are now more than 36,000 homeless people in the city of LA, and nearly 59,000 across LA county, a 16% and 12% uptick respectively, according to an annual LA county report released on Tuesday.
- More than 44,000 (75%) of the homeless population are unsheltered, with more than 16,000 people living in cars and more than 11,000 in tents and makeshift shelters.
- The number of homeless families increased by 8% to 8,800, with more than 1,600 of them unsheltered.
- Youth homelessness also increased by 24% to nearly 4,000, and more than half of young people are unsheltered.
- More than half of unsheltered adults are experiencing homelessness for the first time.
The LA mayor, Eric Garcetti, called the increase “heartbreaking” in a statement. “These results remind us of a difficult truth: skyrocketing rents statewide and federal disinvestment in affordable housing, combined with an epidemic of untreated trauma and mental illness, is pushing people into homelessness faster than they can be lifted out,” he said.
There you go. Los Angeles has become a major repository for homeless people because of greedy landlords, stingy federal government and lousy health care.
The governance of Los Angeles, and the state of California – which are quickly turning it into a socialist “paradise”? Hey, they have nothing to do with anything. It’s everyone else’s fault.
Welcome to Venezuela-in-progress on the Pacific.
I wish I were healthy. I would sell off my assets and move out of california. The whole state is turning into a SH like SF.