"$600K Units" - California Spends BILLIONS On High Rise Apartments For The Homeless
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- California has opened the Weingart Tower, a 19-story, $165 million high-rise in Skid Row, providing 278 fully furnished studio apartments for the homeless. Each apartment costs $600,000. Will this be a permanent solution to homelessness?
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Remember, they'll do this but nothing for the veterans that are homeless.
this is literally a housing solution for homeless vets in CA....
@arthurchushoe so it's for the veterans or the crackheads. Also veterans deal with more much being homeless than "I made some bad choices"
The veterans sees the clothes and body parts of kids blown up by suicide bombers. Gtfo
You are correct, I have been feeding homeless in Skid Row for 14 years and they are Not helping our Vets.
2 wrongs don’t make a right. Socialism and handouts are unethical period
@@jaunt3603 true thats a good point, because this solution won't house everyone in need we shouldn't do it all.
Remember, the families in Lahina Maui only received one payment of $700.00, and they are US citizens.
Lol, we sent ukraine how much? 175b already, over 4.5k for every citizen of theirs. Hopefully Hawaii wakes up this election.
the homeless are US citizens too. Im not supporting them over the Maui residents, but your point is out of place in this context.
The residents of East Palestine didn't get anything, also a huge travesty.
It smells like money laundering
I have been in Skid Row feeding homeless for 14 years and will be there this weekend and I can tell you they will destroy those units. They do not want to follow rules, they sometimes throw food back at me. God bless
The only homeless people that should be help are the ones trying to get out of that situation... some people don't wanna be saved
Immigrants behave waaaaaay better then many of the homeless
Thanks for your service.
@@greyfox3931 like the ones in Houston that unalived the 12 year old girl ? Ohh wait the one in Georgia that unalived Laken Riley? No no you mean the one in NY that SA'd the 2 lil girls. Or the one that unalived the mother of 5? Which one you taking about??
if they allow drug addicts then yes..if you just regular folks who are just in hard times then it could last a while
Remember: nothing for veterans
Because the veterans already served their purpose. The people being given these new units still have a perceived value and a purpose they have yet to serve, plain and simple... That's just the way things work now-a-days, it might not be fair, but that's just how it is.
What should the veterans get? I don't recall our soldiers taking up arms against the tyrants in DC.
@@user-zu5do6ri6rwhat should they get? Dignified treatment
They voluntarily signed up for not forced (drafted). They’re not entitled for anything 😂
When was the last time the USA was invaded?
$600k to build.
30 days to destroy.
167 Million Dollars of Taxpayer money spent. 287 rooms at 600k each.
Same thing happened in St. Louis housing project called Pruitt Igoe built in the 60s and demolished in 76’ couldn’t keep it running or maintain it.
It's $600K per UNIT
Yes. Come back in 6 months and guaranteed the dirt bags take advantage
@@tonygarcia2591California voters gave billions to the homeless
There's people working that can't afford that. You couldn't make it up
Imagine how many people will pretend to be homeless now
Low income is something completely different than homeless. Which one is it??
@@devinwright4502id do it just to take advantage of the foolish California government 😂
You people are never happy. Yall was complaining nonstop about the government helping the migrants. Now you have an issue with Americans that need assistance
not surprising, I have a friend that does social work and she says many of her mentally ill unemployed clients are living in downtown high rises that she could never afford but the state is paying for these people's $3000 a month rents.
No wonder why Cali is several billion in debt!!!
Had surplus prior to Spewsom
The country is in several trillions debt so you can move
Money is fake
Absurdity knows no bounds in California.
Former guy from LA, now in the fine South.
All I can do is laugh and nod my head in disbelief of what's happening in the dumpster state.
I live in Commiefornia. I like the label you gave it: dumpster state. It’s apropos.
Let it implode. I’m outta here soon
Would the last American leaving California , please bring the flag.
It's a beautiful state, but I'd never move out there.
$200k is now low income in California!
I have worked my entire life of 30 years and I can’t afford 600k house and these people get it for free. I went to university and do high skilled work.
It’s not for free… listen the news
Congratulations... you don't get a home and you don't get a home and you don't get a home.
@@Alexandria-hq1uy yeah 30% of their income is hmm $20 / hour $40k a year around $33000 a year after tax .. so $10000 a year for the next 60 years excluding interest. ROI is insanity, how capitalism dies and communism wins.
Keep voting
It is insane, I'd be so angry as a tax payer.
You'd be surprised at how many people with jobs are homeless. The cost of living is so high that some people have turned to living in their cars.
Thank you!!! THE COMMENT I’VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR🙌🏽 People hear homeless and think skid row meanwhile the cost of living is throwing our neighbors to the streets😢
There is that, but that's California policies. They have very high taxes. It's not a state everyone can live in on a lower income. I've known that for years. People maybe need to move out of CA. There are shelters for people who can't afford things, as long as you're not doing drugs, etc. Local counties have resources available and you can look things up at the library for free.
People ask where the billions have went for the homeless crises. It went to his buddies to make millions off of the homeless crisis. These are sick corrupt individuals.
Unhoused? Tf. That is homeless. Say as it is.
The car is not used its pre owned .😆Same shit
This is such a BS to all of us over tax payers
I live in LA - $2,000 for a shitty studio and they get this for what reason, they decided to do the opposite of me? I guess I shouldn't work, pay taxes, and keep good health... what is the point anymore?
Left my $1500 studio in Koreatown after 10 years and i'm 30 now. I'm paying $2200 for the same size in Glendale but it's like night and day , they don't tolerate crackheads. I was over the chaos after they built the homeless building off of Beverly. These people get handouts, the same ones who broke into my car, my building, shit on my sidewalk, tried to stab me on the red line.. I've worked my ass off to live here, fuck this
I hear that.
Now they are called highrises. They used to be called Projects
Does the 30% paid by the tenants go back to the taxpayers? I doubt it. Will it actually be paid? I doubt it.
It’s 30 percentage of their income, not the cost of the rent!
Regardless, they’ll have squatters rights so it doesn’t matter anyway 🙄
it needs to be taken off their govt checks automatically..
You’re making an assumption and that’s what they want everyone to sit there and do. These developments are structured under a different assistance program whereby a tenant can pay 30, 40, or 50%. There are many programs under the umbrella of Section 8, not just one. I had a friend living in “affordable housing” and her unit was 50%. That made her still responsible for a monthly portion of over $900 on a fixed income. Why would the money go back? It goes to the landlord, the owner or owners of the building. Every penny.
@@LanaTodd-pn1ygthat’s an ignorant assumption. The fact is people on Section 8 receive most income from sources other than welfare and many of them have jobs
Homeless veterans should get 1st option on an apartment and if they fill the entire building then fantastic 🙏❤
*Grandes cosas pueden suceder para aquellos que creen en Dios. Estaba deprimido porque tenía una deuda de más de 12,000, pero a Dios sea la gloria, saldé mi deuda y sigo ganando para mí y mi familia. Dios bendiga a la Sra. Regina Maria Howard, Dios la ha usado para cambiar muchas vidas.* 🇺🇸
Por favor ¿CÓMO? La economía actual es mala.
Mi amiga me habló de ella hace unos años, de cómo cambia vidas de manera positiva y lo intenté y, efectivamente, se registró el éxito.
Hoy llega a 100.000 y me comprometí a devolver el 20% a mi comunidad. Estoy realmente agradecido por todo el conocimiento y las pepitas que me han brindado durante los últimos meses. Comenzó con 20k en enero de 2024.
Lo mismo aquí comenzó con 7000 hace dos meses, ahora puedo decir con valentía que he recibido más de 23,000.
Dios es genial☺️!!
Al principio estaba un poco escéptico al respecto, pero ella me dijo que la vida sin inversiones es vacía, gracias a Dios seguí su consejo, hoy gano mucho y ahora tengo 2 super mart en Estados Unidos.
This is bs
These "towers" remind me of what Cabrini Green was supposed to be. In 1950 it was declared public housing. In 2000 the demolitions began in 2010 the demolitions were completed.
Why large beautiful apartments for less than 300 people? Why not 1000 in 250 sq ft each? They are setting unrealistic expectations for these people and they will never want to leave
As a recovering heroin addict (almost 3 years clean) there is going to be so many overdoses and drug dealers living in those apartments. Usually when homeless ppl OD it’s in public where at least someone(or another homeless) can administer Narcan but when that same OD occurs in their private penthouse it means certain death.
Congratulations! I hope things keep going well for you!
The price is not the problem this building is 1e-30% of your taxes, what is stupid to me is that this is for 270 apartments so basically it’s not fixing anything
It’s a start though for our people who work and can’t afford a home
“600,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way”
“That’s…good news”
“Tell your master, Gavin Newsom, that his order will be met.. on time”
Lol
This is insane
So let me get this straight. These are the same guys criying about sending money to other countries and saying we should use the money for us americans, but as soon as we do exactly that, they start criticizing newsome for doing it?
I DON’T MIND MY TAX MONEY HELPING THE HOMELESS!!! I LOVE THIS!!
This city and state is a freaking joke. It's time to leave...save yourselves
I thought we saw this failure already with the housing project of the 70's like New York, Chicago and St. Louis. Can't put a bunch of poverty status people in one spot. Bad
They are going to turn into those buildings from the Judge Dredd Reboot Lol 😂
Create the problem, get the kudos for "solving" the problem. Simplez
More like create the problem, spend a ton of money to not solve it, and use that as evidence to grift even more money from taxpayers in the future
It's time to move back to the City of Angels. Hope a 100% Service Connected Disabled Veteran can qualify to move in into one of these stunning studio apartments.
These places should go to actual working class that struggle to afford and live in tents or camper vans, not drug users who will obviously destroy the properties.
I agree with that!!!!!!
I think if they Destroy the unit they live in they should be put in JAIL!!
Why the f..k did they waste 100s of millions of tax dollars on fancy high rise units literally across the street from skid row instead of building more regular units on the outskirts of los Angeles like in Palmdale or Lancaster away from the streets of los Angeles. They could've built thousands of more moderate units away from down town Los Angeles.
Thats just not fascist enough for them
Yet they outlaw those tiny homes that cost a fraction of this.
It’s part of agenda 2050, UBI and fifteen minute cities
@@the2stepthey only approve their buddies from black stone
Yep I’ve been saying that for years. We have thousands of empty acres in the areas you mentioned that are totally vacant. Could have built thousands of mini homes with what they spent on this building. One thing is providing housing. Another thing is providing luxurious units with all amenities that most people that work hard and pay taxes couldn’t afford.
This is like a twilight zone episode!
As a university student in LA county, I struggle to put together 1300$ a month to share an appt with 3 other people….
Beware the rise of the Homeless Industrial Complex
In the 90’s our corrupt government, nationwide, decided to tear down most of the housing projects and instead pay rents (section 8), bringing millions of renters into the rental market- one of many reasons housing is out of reach for a growing number of Americans, all the reasons created by government-
The housing projects were well planned, they were near schools, bus lines, walking distance from industrial areas with work, they had health clinics/hospitals nearby, parks and recreation centers-
But they were planned & built during a time when our government was semi decent, semi honest and sorta wanted to fix things, then the 90’s brought us what has become the most corrupt, most disconnected, most self serving government that even surpassed the corruption of the late 1800’s/early 1900’s that brought us the Great Depression and wars-
This tearing down housing projects, turning them into lofts for the yuppies then building multi billion $ ‘solutions’ for the ‘unhoused’, anyone can see are failures is symbolic of our times
They spend this amount of money to build one apartment where they could just deregulate a bunch of zoning laws and incentivize more high density zoning to make the solution easier and cheaper🤣
That’s what they did in China and they all got locked into their buildings during Covid.
Yet I can’t afford to put gas in my car here in LA wow I guess it pays to be homeless now.
There are people living in their car and all they can afford is gas. Not rent. At least someone is trying to help our people who can’t afford rent or find a decent paying job🙌🏽
That building is going to turn into the “ Carter “ from NEW JACK CITY 🤦♂️💯
The homeless should be sent to a settlement in the city outskirts to live rent free but given meaningful jobs with decent pay. Free rehab and mental health clinic onsite. That’s the ONLY permanent way outta this mess. NOT free luxury high rise apartments.
“Luxury” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not all homeless people need a rehab and mental health services.
@@capriquarius21free rehab and mental health clinic for those who need it. But they’re still expected to work and contribute, or else they lose their spot. Get it done!
More terrible policy of rewarding people's poor choices and bad behavior. And they all get their own place?? I work full-time and can't even afford a one bedroom in a decent part of town.
So that means you’re low-income right? Does that mean you made poor choices because you can’t afford the cost of living? No. So this place helps people like you and me, not people off skid row! It said it’s for low-income participants. It’s not a rehab!
@@capriquarius21 I’m not low income but where I live in SoCal if you’re not making close to six figures good luck getting your own place somewhere decent
@@the2stepAs Pat would say that's the market and you're not deemed worthy of high pay by the market, upskill and make more or move.
That's not my actual view, but you have more in common wrt housing with the homeless guy than you think. The system is broken so it doesn't make sense punching down on a couple hundred units for homeless when government and cities should be building a lot more to increase supply
Time to move out of CA, if I were you. You could get something decent in other states without six figures. Good luck!
Not to sound too dark, but are you giving potentially depressed people a launching pad?
Never interfere with evolution in action.
That the least of the problems that will occur within months of a full building
if you want to kill yourself you'd be stupid to wait for a condo to be built just to jump out of.
Everytime speak I laugh “unhoused ppl don’t wanna call them homeless to offend them” 😂😂
It really doesn't pay to work anymore.
Them chairs in the common area will be gone 😂😂😂
Our tax dollars at work, 278 homeless people and there are 20,000 homeless people in LA
20,000??!! You obviously don't live in L.A. More like 80,000 and climbing.
ARE YOU INSANE?!?!?!? It's gonna be Bonkers!!!!! 😂😂😂😂 Gotta love America🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Marketing?!? What are you all talking about. 278 units. Not much is being done with this.
Pat- please present your plan !! What is your solution !! Here is one. California is so large, it still has the second-highest number of vacant homes - about 8.7% according to the report, or around 1.2 million empty homes. Deed these homes to the homeless after they put in 2 years at 8 hours per day labor under the supervision of construction contactors !! The State can donate the basic building materials. They must work labor to qualify !! No free lunch !!
Clown world.
Over under is 45.5 days for this to be turned into a dump
Vinny great delivery
There is an episode of Star Trek where the poor people were locked in buildings with armed guards, in California by the government.
Looks like a typical average apartment in average NYC neighborhood. I can see it ending up like a NYCHA building.
$600,000 homes (units)? Looks like they will be living better than most of taxpayers who are forced to pay for it. Might be interesting to learn which company is getting paid that $600k per unit and what their political connections are.
Oh perfect, a voluntary testing pool Tuskegee part 2.
These people are delusional. Most homeless need a care taker
I hope it's for the people, who are working and know how to function,
There’s thousands of hard working people who know how to function that are homeless in California
@capriquarius21 I know I really hope they get it I pray for them and only want them to get the fresh start they have longed for
It's not for an unemployed tenant. They said "30% of their income". Stop misuse of the term "homeless".
What a FANTASTIC idea! What could go wrong?
1. Pruitt-Igoe housing project erected in 1954,
2. Cabrini Greens public housing, Chicago
3. Jordan Downs, Watts , LA
4. Louis Heaton Pink Houses, Brooklyn
5. Johnston Square Apartments
Baltimore
6. Queensbridge Houses, Queens
7. Robert Taylor Homes, Chicago
If money laundering was a person “Gavin Newsome”
What about hard-working people??? What do they get???
A few years ago I worked on a section 8 housing with balconies most with the views of the flatirons( the Rockies). On the property we also built a retail slab that was leased to a convenience and a liquor store. They could have sold this property and it would have paid for all of the buildings. Also well over half were not build ADA compliant!
A society has to have compassion and a safety net--but not to the point where they it disincentivizes the productive class. When there are more takers than makers, and the makers are sacrificing too much, they will leave. No matter the extent of a citizenry's compassion and empathy, eventually they will leave when they bear too much of the weight of a dysfunctional welfare state.
Very well said
These are the same people who scream "help Americans first" and "what about the homeless." At the same time, they hate when the homeless are helped. 😂
This gives that tower block from the Karl urban Judge Dredd remake vibes
Gavin wants to be invited to grand opening crackhead party.
I'm sure the first responders are going to be thrilled at the future calls needing them to attend this place.
Alright let's not demonise everyone here ! Some are low income hardworking people that will get a decent place to live in. About the Street homeless I'm not sure ... They should have vetted them
I live in Oklahoma, built my house in 2014 for 325k, contracting it out myself taking 8.5 months. 568,750 today 🤔
that place gonna be like in the movie raid redemption.
They are not even mentioning the cost to maintain this place and the services they will offerr
This is a joke we all gotta struggle to pay bills while they get a free high rise apartment, disgusting
London Mayor Sadiqkhan is building 300k flats for unhoused Middle Eastern and illegal asylum seekers free housing in London
"If you don't work you don't eat."
I’m hopeful. It’s something. I can’t even visit Palmdale where I was born. I hope this helps!
They didn’t mention the annual maintenance cost.
Did you know grovernor Gavin Newsom stated that they purchased 6000 thousand unite just in 5 month and plan to purchase more. All the people who losed there jobs and couldn't afford to pay there mortgage or landlords who couldn't keep their property became they couldn't collect rents. The problem that our state created.
Also the US is 5 million homes short as is Canada.
They are calling it Junkie Towers.
Nino is back 🙌
600 hundred thousand per unit. That crazy.
They should require the tenants to work or volunteer for 40 hours for the apartment.....
Big corporations are getting funded to build it and they’re also getting subsidies. This is for the immigrants. It’s for all of us. 15 min cities
I understand the frustration surrounding this topic since I live in Los Angeles and I’m frustrated too but just out of curiosity, when are these guys going to be happy with anything California does? If they don’t do anything about the homeless, they complain about the issue and crime. If they’re trying to put these homeless people somewhere, they complain about it too.
People leave other cities and move to California because of the incentives from the government. That’s part of people’s hate, that these unproductive people are taken care of by the government. Now they will give these people who have not earned it a beautiful highrise that I cannot afford to live in working full time a basically free place to live that is paid for with taxpayer money. The people living here will continue to get excessive taxpayer money and will still be on the street begging for tax free money. It’s ridiculous.
I know all black people may look the same to PBD, but Karen Bass, the Mayor of Los Angeles, was not the politician who advocated for a 50 dollar an hour minimum wage.
That woman was a politician in Oakland. Google it.
What about us seniors?????
Not to sound too dark, but are you giving potentially depressed people a launching pad
My thoughts exactly
Lol, it's commiefornia they will blame the concrete
Of course someone just had to " JUMP" to conclusions and "DROP" a comment so Dark .
Every unit on every floor will be strictly controlled by organized crime within 3 months.
That whole balcony area will be shut down in weeks. Due to fights and crap being flung from it to people below
Love the weather in cali. But yah. 45% taxes and then lawsuits employees. It’s tough. Then all the lollipop girls. Whoop whoop gotta go. Lol 😅
Encouraging lawlessness and no responsibility forcing others to pay for their unrealistic spending or money laundering?
The USD must be worthless because no WAY is an apartment worth 600k. If that's so, has anyone seen the old Soviet sky-lofts? Row after row of buildings JUST like that.
Did anyone notice there are no units available for families?
California $48B in the red. Wealthiest, highest taxes state in the country is a disaster. Newsome has that planned for his run for president.
This sounds like a movie plot.
I can't believe I went from watching the Twilight Zone to now being an episode I can't get out of.