The Supreme Court meets Friday to consider for the first time whether the Constitution gives homeless people a right to sleep on the sidewalk. [12/5/19]https://t.co/K885eZA4z8— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) December 6, 2019
The Supreme Court meets THIS FRIDAY, December 6, 2019. This decision affects us all. They will consider for the first time whether the Constitution gives homeless people a right to sleep on the sidewalk.
Alexandra Datig published Nov 6, 2019: Daily Ledger Shows #SaveLA Video, Announces Homeless Veterans Rally in Recall Garcetti Effort.
California is #1 in the United States in poverty. San Francisco & Los Angeles are becoming disgusting. Tents, trash & homeless everywhere. Liberal politicians are wolves in sheep’s clothing.— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) September 22, 2019
All they do is steal from working people & businesses while incentivizing degeneracy.
One drive through San Francisco & Los Angeles is all it takes to wonder how corrupt the politicians are. Non-stop fires. Power outages. Homeless galore. Trash everywhere. Gas & rent prices through the roof. Yet, they are focusing on impeachment & running for President.— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) November 3, 2019
Gross.
Los Angeles Times
written by Doug Smith, and Benjamin Oreskes
Monday December 2, 2019
In a major change for the team tasked with addressing rising homelessness in the region, Peter Lynn announced Monday that he is stepping down as head of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
Chief Program Officer Heidi Marston will fill in as interim director during a national search for a replacement when Lynn officially leaves at the end of this month.
“Boy, these have felt like some long five years,” he said in an interview last week. “I mean I have really enjoyed this, this role and this gig and I have also felt quite a lot of wear and tear from it.”
Lynn has long been the face of bad news on the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. As executive director of the city-county agency that conducts the count of those without permanent shelter, he presented the results to elected officials and the public each year.
Homelessness has increased a total of 33% during Lynn’s tenure, precipitating a public reaction that has produced millions of dollars of new tax revenue but also growing frustration with the lack of visible results.
Lynn told The Times that his decision to leave the $242,000-a-year job was partly motivated by a nearly two-month medical absence after an August auto accident left him with a debilitating concussion. The time away allowed him to see things from a new perspective, he said.
Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, president and chief executive of LA Family Housing, a services provider and homeless housing developer, said she is “really disappointed” that Lynn is resigning.
“I totally appreciate and understand why he is making a decision to step down. It is a really challenging position to be in,” she said. “He’s never lost sight of the humanity of why we were doing our work.”
Elise Buik, president and chief executive officer of United Way of Greater Los Angeles, said Lynn “has dedicated his life to this work, and L.A. County is a better place because of it.”
He led the effort to “build up the coordinated and integrated approach we’ve always needed,” she said. “He also helped drive the conversation about how racism is intertwined with homelessness, and he elevated our housing affordability crisis as the key headwind that we face.”
In Lynn’s most recent presentation to announce the 12% countywide increase in homelessness in 2019, for instance, he took pains to explain that even as shelter and housing programs were taking thousands of people off the streets, a crisis of housing affordability was pushing even more out of their homes.
Lynn said he has been trying to shift the public conversation from the “personal characteristics of the people who are homeless ... to structural factors, like housing affordability, like lack of access to mental health, like lack of access to substance use treatment.”
Despite that, Lynn said he primarily considered himself an administrator. In a non-political job atop an agency created in 1993 by Los Angeles city and county to manage mostly federal homeless funds, his biggest challenge was pulling together a homeless services system sprawling across the county and 88 city governments.
Elected officials complimented Lynn’s work on homelessness and acknowledged the challenge of this post.
“Peter’s leadership of LAHSA came at a time when Angelenos took historic action and made generational investments in confronting the homelessness crisis,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a statement. “He served for five years, with dedication, in one of the toughest jobs — and I thank him for all he did to bring more resources to our most vulnerable neighbors.”
County Supervisor Janice Hahn echoed this sentiment.
“Peter led LAHSA through an historic expansion, from a relatively small agency managing shelters, to a multimillion-dollar organization implementing both the county and cities’ homelessness strategies,” she said in a statement. “He welcomed the challenge and his leadership of the agency was important, necessary and appreciated.”
Some officials, though, say this is an opportune moment to rethink the structure of this agency in an effort to give it more power over things like land use and policy planning.
“I believe it is time for LAHSA to take a very different direction,” L.A. City Councilman Paul Krekorian said Monday. “If that can be achieved through dynamic new leadership, so be it. If instead it must be done through extensive restructuring of the agency, then this is the time to do it.”
The chair of the authority’s commission, Sarah Dusseault, who was appointed this past summer, recently told The Times that she thinks it’s time to start considering how to create an entity where the lines of authority are more clearly delineated.
Lynn took the job in December 2014, after serving as Section 8 administrator with the Los Angeles Housing Authority. He inherited a nascent project called the “coordinated entry system,” which was designed to match people on the street with appropriate shelter or housing as it became available.
That system, developed by United Way as a pilot program, had to be expanded to work with hundreds of homeless and housing agencies across the county. In 2015, under Lynn’s leadership, the homeless services authority produced its first data analysis projecting how many housing units and shelter beds would be needed to serve the county’s homeless population — then about 44,000 people.
That data analysis provided the foundation for two local tax measures. In 2016, Los Angeles city voters approved Proposition HHH to authorize $1.2 BILLION in housing construction bonds, and in 2017, county voters approved Measure H, a sales tax increase for homeless services.
The resulting flood of new money put Lynn in the unusual position of needing to more than triple his staff as the homeless authority hired hundreds of outreach workers, contract administrators and data analysts.
“I don’t think any of us would have expected in December of 2014 that we would have this enormous support from the voters to turn out and put these resources behind these initiatives,” he said.
Lynn said he plans to stay in the homeless field, but would like to be involved in initiatives that he sees as crucial but beyond the scope of the agency, among them mental illness and substance abuse treatment, as well as reentry programs.
“I think America, in general, provides really poor funding ... for mental health, substance use treatment,” he said. “And I will say, people are really suffering for that.”
He said he also plans to advocate for new housing models to address affordability.
“To the extent that we cannot get deep subsidies,” Lynn said, “we need to think about housing stock types that will be deeply affordable.”
You too can have this next to your house in LA for a mere $4k a month! 💉 Vagrants constantly yelling and fighting, living in piles of trash all while our elected leaders tell us it’s a housing crisis. #venicebeach #skidrose @MikeBoninLA doing a great job keeping us safe. pic.twitter.com/IsLc9ZLkOI— STREET PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES (@streetpeopleLA) November 18, 2019
The city looses more control everyday. Blocking sidewalks w/encampments wasn’t enough so now they have commandeered the street on 3rd in #venicebeach where parking is already a premium. @MikeBoninLA doing a terrific job for his constituents on the Wedtside @MayorOfLA pic.twitter.com/fg66uy1hH8— STREET PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES (@streetpeopleLA) November 3, 2019
I walked the Venice boardwalk today & it’s embarrassing forget about political party CA33 deserves better— Brandon Fricke For Congress (@BrandonFrickeCA) September 24, 2019
If @tedlieu cared about the decline of the 33rd he’d put the same energy into tweeting about our failed state/local policies
Instead he’s tweeted @realDonaldTrump 6x today pic.twitter.com/y4TGDmGLdy
Everyone in #SantaMonica better hope that invisible line separating us from #venice stays strong. Why would anyone want to visit a beach covered in homeless & trash? Or live here?#CA33 @tedlieu @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom @realDonaldTrump— SantaMonicaProblems (@SantaMonicaProb) August 19, 2019
Cc: @streetpeopleLA @Beautful_Chaos pic.twitter.com/qNt0Rk25jo
Right Now: Downtown L.A. makes a pigsty look clean! #recallgarcetti pic.twitter.com/ZDjEcRWA5f— Alexandra Datig (@alexdatig) November 10, 2019
Another $2M of taxpayer money wasted by the city on bikes no one uses and homeless steal and chop up. Thank you @CBSLA for exposing this. #losangeles pic.twitter.com/xE6t7b0ezW— STREET PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES (@streetpeopleLA) November 8, 2019
#shermanoaks #losangeles sidewalk completely blocked by an encampment with open alcohol and passed out transients with dangerous weapons out in plain view. #ADAVIOLATION homeless are more important than our disabled neighbors @MayorOfLA pic.twitter.com/kfNd90wCV6— STREET PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES (@streetpeopleLA) October 29, 2019
Transient with pants around knees walking in traffic harassing drivers in Sun Valley in Sheldon St. @MayorOfLA this is getting really old, our kids don’t need to see this and our residents don’t deserve to be sexually harassed while driving. #losangeles pic.twitter.com/hnareVVR9o— STREET PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES (@streetpeopleLA) October 29, 2019
Imagine this pops up in front of your house and ur told by police and city council there’s nothing they can do about it because”they have rights too” Drug addict thieves and mentally ill can literally pitch a tent on the sidewalk in front of your house and live there. #losangeles pic.twitter.com/K6VbKMu3hu— STREET PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES (@streetpeopleLA) October 29, 2019
— STREET PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES (@streetpeopleLA) October 17, 2019
A sidewalk in the MacArthur Park section of Los Angeles. Bike rims in the trees. A washer and dryer?! Most likely all the neighborhood’s stolen stuff spilling into the street. #homelessencampment #losangeles pic.twitter.com/7IPHBmhWrL— STREET PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES (@streetpeopleLA) August 17, 2019
This money will go right into Marxist Democrat Party politicians pockets & they're business contractor buddies who support them.— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) November 25, 2019
The remaining 1% of this money leftover will be spent on helping maybe 100 if we're lucky.
Los Angeles is spending over $600,000 per homeless person.
That’s very generous. But, money won’t fix it. California already mismanaged a billion+ dollars. There is a mental health, incentive, societal & drug problem at the core of this. Liberal policies on rent, crime & trashing the city don’t help.— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) November 24, 2019
A trillion dollars wouldn’t fix it.
Nearly 3 years after L.A. voters approved a $1.2 billion bond program to build up to 10,000 housing units for the homeless, an audit has found that no units have been made available yet. Meanwhile, costs per unit went up from $350K to a median of $531K.https://t.co/IXQfuyIszK— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) November 25, 2019
California:— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) April 15, 2019
- Biggest economy in US
- 5th biggest economy in the world
- Highest taxes
- Highest poverty in the US
- Disgusting homeless problem
- Highest business fee
- #1 in US for jobs & businesses leaving to China
Leftism doesn’t work. Now stop stealing my money. K thanks.
California is #1 in the United States in poverty. Leading. In poverty. Open your eyes California. Notice the trash everywhere? Tents? Homeless population growing? Air pollution? Do you notice it? California politicians are distracting you with Trump. Because you let them.— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) September 25, 2019
Thanks to liberal policies:— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) August 9, 2018
- I can’t start a small business without paying near $1,000 a year
- Got drained $6,000 from Obamacare mandatory health insurance scheme
- My neighborhood is a homeless crack den
Now they want to take my crowdfunding income?
Psychotic leeches. Wow.
WOW! Incredible BEFORE & AFTER Results By @ScottPresler.— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) September 21, 2019
Cleaned Up A Massive Trash Dump & Homeless Camp In Los Angeles. 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/ikxOd58JWO
My name is Scott Presler.— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) December 3, 2019
I organized a cleanup in Los Angeles, where we picked up 50 tons of trash.
LA has dangerous bacteria, so we had to wear hazmat suits.
Why did I, a Virginian, have to come into California to pick up trash?
CC: @KamalaHarris pic.twitter.com/C1ECBSr4Rv
Jennifer Barbosa published Sept 25, 2019: Adam Schiff's Dirty Secrets: Part 1. Jennifer Barbosa For Congress. California's 28th District www.Barbosa2020.com
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Nov. 25, 2019 - 2:18 - Self-described Conservative Independent candidate Jennifer Barbosa makes her case to take Rep. Adam Schiff's 28th congressional district seat in California. www.Barbosa2020.com
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