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Print this article Tents and tarps erected by homeless people in the skid row area of downtown Los Angeles, June 28, 2019.
(Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters) The project is a boon for real-estate developers and a constellation of nonprofits and service providers, but a boondoggle for taxpayers.
In 2016, influential political leaders, activists, and media outlets in Los Angeles said they had a simple solution to homelessness: build more housing. They claimed that rising rents had thrown people onto the streets and that by providing free “permanent supportive housing,” cities could reduce the number of people on the streets.
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In response, 77 percent of Los Angeles voters approved a $1.2 billion bond for the construction of 10,000 units for the city’s homeless. That commitment made Los Angeles the key testing ground for the “Housing First” approach that has become the dominant policy idea on homelessness for West Coast cities.