California Doing California Things

[TSwizzle]

Just three out of a promised 2,000 apartments have been used to relocate the homeless in Nithya Raman’s failed $60 million project to get people off the streets. Raman’s plan was to lease and move homeless people into 2,000 apartments and subsidize their rent, rather than pay for them to stay in motels or shelters. However, nearly a year after that plan was launched — with $62.6 million in taxpayer funds behind it — only three apartments are occupied. The sluggish rollout follows another homelessness program tied to Raman that The Post revealed was stalled despite millions of dollars in government funding. A $4,011,357 state grant Raman secured to address dangerous encampments along a 19-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River remained unspent nearly two years after it was awarded, The Post reported.
Inside Safe carries a far higher price tag, but has produced far more housing placements. The program has cost approximately $391 million and served 5,932 people since its 2022 launch, according to city figures. 1,571 participants were in permanent housing, while 1,752 remained in temporary interim housing and 2,866 had exited as of early 2026.

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Oh, and this morning, on my way to work, a "homeless" gentleman crossed in front of me with pants down and his dick was on full display. Sunset and La Brea to be precise.

Los Angeles is a big open air psychiatric ward these days.

 

[Tigers!]

Then, why stay there?

Because it wasn't always like this. This is a fairly recent development and at some point in the not too distant future I hope things will improve.

I do admire your optimism

 

[Tigers!]

What's your solution to prevent people from attacking a Waymo?

 

[ZiprHead]

What's your solution to prevent people from attacking a Waymo?

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Too bad Tswizzle lacked the spine to answer.

 

[Politesse]

Just three out of a promised 2,000 apartments have been used to relocate the homeless in Nithya Raman’s failed $60 million project to get people off the streets. Raman’s plan was to lease and move homeless people into 2,000 apartments and subsidize their rent, rather than pay for them to stay in motels or shelters. However, nearly a year after that plan was launched — with $62.6 million in taxpayer funds behind it — only three apartments are occupied. The sluggish rollout follows another homelessness program tied to Raman that The Post revealed was stalled despite millions of dollars in government funding. A $4,011,357 state grant Raman secured to address dangerous encampments along a 19-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River remained unspent nearly two years after it was awarded, The Post reported.
Inside Safe carries a far higher price tag, but has produced far more housing placements. The program has cost approximately $391 million and served 5,932 people since its 2022 launch, according to city figures. 1,571 participants were in permanent housing, while 1,752 remained in temporary interim housing and 2,866 had exited as of early 2026.

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Oh, and this morning, on my way to work, a "homeless" gentleman crossed in front of me with pants down and his dick was on full display. Sunset and La Brea to be precise.

Los Angeles is a big open air psychiatric ward these days.

What has caused this problem? What should be done about this problem? And what are you doing about this problem?

Also, what do the quotation marks mean? You're the only person is this conversation who claims that this man was homeless at all, you are our only source of information about him. So was he homeless or not? Do you doubt your own judgement? If you think he was not homeless, don't describe him that way. If he was, why the quotation marks?

 

[Politesse]

What's your solution to prevent people from attacking a Waymo?

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Too bad Tswizzle lacked the spine to answer.

He doesn't know the answer, he's just wasting our time.

 

[robnisch]

So, a hundred odd years ago people built a city that had just enough water to grow celery.
Then they (Mulholand) took water from upstate so the city could grow.
Took more than their share of the Colorado River.
And now you wonder why it's not working out so well?

 

[TSwizzle]

So, a hundred odd years ago people built a city that had just enough water to grow celery.
Then they (Mulholand) took water from upstate so the city could grow.
Took more than their share of the Colorado River.
And now you wonder why it's not working out so well?

Gibberish.

 

[Politesse]

So, a hundred odd years ago people built a city that had just enough water to grow celery.
Then they (Mulholand) took water from upstate so the city could grow.
Took more than their share of the Colorado River.
And now you wonder why it's not working out so well?

Gibberish.

That is incredibly annoying forum behavior. You aren't a child. Use words.

 

[robnisch]

So, a hundred odd years ago people built a city that had just enough water to grow celery.
Then they (Mulholand) took water from upstate so the city could grow.
Took more than their share of the Colorado River.
And now you wonder why it's not working out so well?

Gibberish.

That is incredibly annoying forum behavior. You aren't a child. Use words.

Thanks Proff.
Just my prose.

 

[Patooka]

I swear, Trump voters are the most lazy, entitled human beings on the planet. How there are so many of them in California, a state that has always been defined by ingenuity, modernity, and shared civic spirit, is a mystery to me. Except, not really, because it makes sense for a lazy person to want to live somewhere where they know the hard work will always be done by someone else. It's just deeply irritating. Go home, authoritarians! Get an honest job. Vote for someone who isn't a hopelessly ineffective wannabe dictator you learned about on daytime tv. But do it somewhere else. Go home, and learn to wipe your own asses instead of expecting someone else to always do it for you. Have you no pride in your own worth and labor whatsoever? It's fucking shameful.

Gibberish.

Yes, MAGAtards speaks gibberish as well. Good call out.

 

[TSwizzle]

This is what we have to put up with in Los Angeles

In West Hollywood, several streets have been flooded with rushing water following a century-old water main break on Thursday morning. The break was reported to the Los Angeles County Fire Department near Holloway Drive and Sunset Boulevard around 3 am. The water flooded through the streets until around 7 am when the leak was finally stopped. The main break caused immense damage to the area surrounding the Sunset Strip, including creating a massive sinkhole at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive and cracked sidewalks in the area. The main break is owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which has apologized for the inconveniences and damages the leak caused. The broken pipe was revealed to be a 36-inch trunk line installed in 1916, according to LADWP officials.

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No doubt the solution will be tax. Like last time. And nothing will be fixed.

 

[ZiprHead]

This is what we have to put up with in Los Angeles

In West Hollywood, several streets have been flooded with rushing water following a century-old water main break on Thursday morning. The break was reported to the Los Angeles County Fire Department near Holloway Drive and Sunset Boulevard around 3 am. The water flooded through the streets until around 7 am when the leak was finally stopped. The main break caused immense damage to the area surrounding the Sunset Strip, including creating a massive sinkhole at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive and cracked sidewalks in the area. The main break is owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which has apologized for the inconveniences and damages the leak caused. The broken pipe was revealed to be a 36-inch trunk line installed in 1916, according to LADWP officials.

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No doubt the solution will be tax. Like last time. And nothing will be fixed.

Yeah, no one else in the world has to put up with water main breaks.

 

[TSwizzle]

The benefits of living in the fourth largest economy in the world I suppose.

 

[Elixir]

This is what we have to put up with in Los Angeles

In West Hollywood, several streets have been flooded with rushing water following a century-old water main break on Thursday morning. The break was reported to the Los Angeles County Fire Department near Holloway Drive and Sunset Boulevard around 3 am. The water flooded through the streets until around 7 am when the leak was finally stopped. The main break caused immense damage to the area surrounding the Sunset Strip, including creating a massive sinkhole at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive and cracked sidewalks in the area. The main break is owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which has apologized for the inconveniences and damages the leak caused. The broken pipe was revealed to be a 36-inch trunk line installed in 1916, according to LADWP officials.

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No doubt the solution will be tax. Like last time. And nothing will be fixed.

Yeah, no one else in the world has to put up with water main breaks.

Who paid for it in 1916? Did they buy the 125 year warranty?
Or ...
Were the insufferable pricks of 1916 setting a booby trap to be sprung 120 years later when the THIRTY SIX INCH main was timed to break? I bet the installer said it would last forever!

 

[bilby]

Who paid for it in 1916? Did they buy the 125 year warranty?

I am reminded of the Ness Viaduct, which was a railway bridge across the river Ness at Inverness in Scotland.

The viaduct was built by Engineer Joseph Mitchell in 1862 for the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway Company, and was designed to have a lifespan of 125 years.

In 1989, the viaduct suddenly and without warning collapsed, at the age of 127 years. That's some impressive engineering, right there.

 

[TSwizzle]

Los Angeles officials are rolling out a $2.8 million program to give away nearly 300 free street food carts — but a well-known SoCal chef says the effort once again shows how the city makes it nearly impossible for traditional restaurants to do business.

“There’s two different sets of rules,” restaurateur Andrew Gruel told The Post. “If I were, as a brick-and-mortar business, to do anything outside the regulatory framework of the city — zoning, health standards, wage laws — I’m going to get smashed left and right.”[/quite]


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California doing California shit again.

 

[Elixir]

a $2.8 million program to give away nearly 300 free street food carts

FREE?? How DARE they!
Why, that’s enough to fund Republicans’ months old “not a war” of choice in Iraq, for a full (breaks out napkin) almost TWO MINUTES! To provide a mere 300 food carts that feed thousands of undeserving souls… such a good thing you elected the Felon; if $2b/day was spent on free food carts it could virtually eliminate hunger worldwide for the duration.

Do you have any idea how many needy people are served every two minutes, by that war you voted for, and for which you are paying THOUSANDS of times the cost of your dreaded food carts EVERY FUCKING WEEK?

Talk about insufferable pricks …

 

[thebeave]

Los Angeles officials are rolling out a $2.8 million program to give away nearly 300 free street food carts — but a well-known SoCal chef says the effort once again shows how the city makes it nearly impossible for traditional restaurants to do business.

“There’s two different sets of rules,” restaurateur Andrew Gruel told The Post. “If I were, as a brick-and-mortar business, to do anything outside the regulatory framework of the city — zoning, health standards, wage laws — I’m going to get smashed left and right.”[/quite]


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California doing California shit again.

Are these food carts supposed to operate on the sidewalks? Good luck with that.

 

[Elixir]

Are these food carts supposed to operate on the sidewalks? Good luck with that.

I bet they could be spotless for the cost of Trump’s “War Of Not Epstein”.