California to spend $100M of state's Medicaid money per year on housing
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The article throws a lot of numbers around that are tangentially related, but, oddly, not that one.
So this helps prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place -- some because of issues the state/country create.
Which is the best way to prevent the cycle of homelessness from starting.
The largest expense for running an ER is dealing with people that use it as a homeless shelter. I have first and second hand knowledge of this.
Weather gets cold? Visit Er. Due to federal regulation, even if a person visits 13 times a day (facility record btw) they can’t be turned away.
Progress needs to be made on both avenues. ERs need the ability to turn expensive frequent fliers away and be absolved of liability, but also shelter programs that are metrics based (job placement, illicit substance abuse, participation in mental health) need private funding.
California funds an enormous prison population, a significant portion of them are non violent or victimless crimes. So that being said, the money is already available.
That’s astonishingly quick to have someone go negative on humanity that fast… and it really reflects on how fucked healthcare is in America… even in a state that’s trying it’s best
While they are administered at lower levels than the State (though significant funding flows through the state, including Medi-Cal funding, for them), there are more than “one or two” publicly-operated clinics in each of California’s major cities.
Because it's not targeting the chronic homeless, whom are more likely to have begun a cycle of depression, disassociation, and addiction.
It turns out that housing is not the solution for the frequent flyers. Hospitalization is. (TLDR: drug addicted and mentally ill residents trashed up many of the Skid Row Housing Trust's units and buildings, rendering them uninhabitable, ultimately leading to the organization's demise.)
That is from 2017 and as far as I can tell, little has truly changed since.
Well what would the alternative be? Letting the poors live right next to the people who matter? They should only be seen when I want my expensive coffee milkshakes, right? </sarcasm>
That sounds like a self-inflicted problem. What I don't understand is why so many stick around rather than finding some place that wants good hard working people and is willing to allow them to actually have a place to live. I know it's not easy to relocate but it can be done and is usually worthwhile in the long run.
The government of California is the reason housing is so expensive in the first place. Now they toss a token amount of money at a problem they created.
It's similar to how the US government pays billions to corn farmers to produce corn syrup, which then causes obesity, which the government spends millions to address.
What ordinary apartment could house populations like this? Since California desires no undocumented slums, as found commonly on a large scale in the South Americas, someone has to build something.
The real danger is similar to totally crooked locals like Phil Tagami in Oakland, who has a "housing project" that has been going for TWELVE YEARS without building anything, nothing. Other crooked people involved, depending on how you define it. If this money results in actual buildings that can handle the intended crowds, that are not prisons, that is progress here.
I reject your use of the word "stereotype" here but if it applies it is clear you're using it with extreme prejudice. Although it is kind of hilarious to see essentially don't stereotype drug users, who will all kill themselves with drugs if given the chance. Which of course is a position that is neatly and compactly contradictory.
If you watch the movie, please tell others about it!
"Papillon is a 2017 drama film directed by Michael Noer that tells the story of French convict Henri Charrière (Charlie Hunnam), nicknamed Papillon ("butterfly"), who was falsely imprisoned in the notorious Devil's Island penal colony and escaped in 1941 with the help of convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega (Rami Malek). Additionally, Papillon is a 1973 epic historical drama prison film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and based on Henri Charrière’s 1969 autobiography"
City of LA had access to government-owned land, fairly large pool of labor and probably some bulk discounts on building materials. Yet after you add consultants, construction unions and other well-connected entities jumping onto the gravy train, average unit ended up above $600k, way above an average "for-profit" luxury condo in LA
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-23/la-paying...
You cannot possibly imagine the pain and frustration of building for inner-city urban development government organizations. They exist to perpetuate the problems that perpetuate their existence. The worse things get, the more funding they get.
What evidence is there that the housing crisis is caused by profiteering in the construction industry? Are construction margins significantly fatter in california/US than other developed countries? What's preventing new entrants from setting up their own construction companies and undercutting the incumbents?