LA Homeless officials, paid more than the White House Cabinet, want your money
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There is a projected $675 million deficit in socialist, one-party Los Angeles. The city officials cashed in on their efforts to combat the swelling housing crisis in 2020, and yet homelessness grew.
The caring party pays city employees working with the homeless more than White House cabinet officials, Fox News reports.
According to auditors at OpentheBooks, 20,000 city employees across all departments make over $150,000.
The Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department aids people in poverty by administering Section 8 federal grants, rent stabilization policies, the housing code, and services to the homeless population. They employed some 737 people costing $55 million in 2020.
Times Mirror Square, Mike Feuer, and Kevin De León Details
As the LA Times wrote in 2018:
“Formerly known as Times Mirror Square, The Times’ current Civic Center headquarters is a mix of five interconnected structures that fill an entire city block, bounded by Broadway and Spring and 1st and 2nd streets.
Shortly after Omni bought the property for more than $100 million in 2016, the developer filed plans with the city to demolish part of the complex and build a pair of high-rise residential towers and several retail stores and restaurants.”
Right at the height of power enjoyed by CD14’s Jose Huizar and his PLUM Committee, this was a plum for him in more ways than one.
Sweetheart Deals in the City Details
GUEST WORDS-The lure of easy money has a powerful appeal. What is easier money than Taxpayer money?
Our political leaders, elected to solve problems, throw oceans of dollars at problems only to see the problems get noticeably worse. This begs the question, who is to blame? The politicians that continuously vote for projects which squander our money and produce visibly poor results (like the Homeless epidemic)? Or ourselves, the voters, who continually reelect them? Is this the classic definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result?
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Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas authored the motion. (Shutterstock)
LOS ANGELES, CA City Council Tuesday voted to begin building a center in Koreatown that will consolidate homeless outreach efforts between the city and county. The council unanimously decided to direct the Department of General Services to investigate leases, license agreements and similar requirements for the city to create a center at 510 S. Vermont Ave.
According to the motion introduced by Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, the Center for Interagency Policy and Action on Homelessness would serve as headquarters for the city to coordinate its homeless outreach efforts with the Los Angeles County departments of Mental Health, Workforce Development and Aging and Community Services.
LA Council president introduces motion for expanded renters relief program
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez introduced a motion Tuesday to set the city on a path toward expanding its Emergency Renters Relief Program using additional funding approved by Congress to assist tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Martinez cited a joint UCLA-USC report that found 22% of L.A. County tenants paid rent late at least once between April and July, and 7% didn t pay rent at least once between May and July. While the city s eviction moratorium and Renters Assistance Program have provided critical relief, many tenants still find themselves months behind on rent with no forseeable way to pay it back, the motion reads. In a city that is over half renters, this could turn into a catastrophe with hundreds of thousands of families ending up on the street.